Rachel Barcellona Makes History and Exemplifies “The Ability Beyond Disability”
SafeMinds Honorary Board Member Rachel Barcellona Makes History and Exemplifies Her “Ability Beyond Disability” Platform as the First Contestant in the Miss Florida Pageant with Autism By: SafeMinds Executive Director Lisa Wiederlight, M.P.P. It’s hard for me to describe my friend and SafeMinds Honorary Board Member Rachel Barcellona, in any one way. Of course, she […]
Your Voice Counts–Democracy is Not a Spectator Sport!
SafeMinds Shares Vol. 1 Issue 1 Your Voice Counts–Democracy is Not a Spectator Sport! By: SafeMinds Executive Director Lisa Wiederlight, M.P.P. This is the first installment of a group of blogs on SafeMinds’ activities. We hope you’ll look forward to reading them and taking some action. As many people know, we’ve been on Capitol Hill […]
Co-occurring Mental Health Issues and Autism: Addressing an Urgent Crisis
By SafeMinds Executive Director, Lisa Wiederlight I’m going to start this blog a little differently today. Today I am writing as both an autism mother and as SafeMinds executive director. Monday morning, while at the grocery store, I heard the familiar scream of a young child with autism. An older man with a crooked and […]
Autism Advocate and SafeMinds Honorary Board Member Shares Her Experience with CBD Oil
My experience with medical cannabis has been very positive and I’m very glad that I was introduced to it when I was. Although it was a struggle because the legalization of cannabis for medical use has had a tumultuous rise to acceptance, I also had to share in this struggle because my mother and myself […]
Biomedical Recovery From Autism Is NOT The Same As Recovery From Autism!
By James Williams, SafeMinds Education and Outreach Committee Member Many parents in the biomedical-based autism community hope to celebrate a child’s recovery from autism. They may rejoice if their child’s medical issues have improved through a biomedical intervention. They may celebrate the improvement of a child with autism whose behaviors have improved through a special diet. […]
Revitalizing the Federal Response to the Autism Crisis
Revitalizing the Federal Response to the Autism Crisis: It’s Going to Take a Village and All of the Villagers By Lisa Wiederlight, M.P.P., SafeMinds Executive Director During two weeks of Summer 2018, the Autism Action Network (AAN), SafeMinds, Talk About Curing Autism (TACA), and the Thinking Mom’s Revolution (TMR) asked autism community members what they thought of the Federal Government’s response to […]
