I'm very excited about the Abilities Expo. Year after year I attend and people just "yes me to death" and nobody follows up with me- this year they will. I'm going to market i.d.e.a.l magazine and Infobility. The subscribers will get free valuable disability related information if they subscribe. I'll also leave everyone with a letter about my programs and I'll make them all free, now I have a strategy and it WILL work.

I went to my first Bethlehem City Council Meeting. I was asked to speak about Human Relations Commission from the perspective of disability. I did, then I heard a majority of people talk about gender discrimination. I am concerned that this commission will receive 100's of complaints about everything. Now that people will know about it everyone will be crying discrimination! It will just be about arbitration, which can be powerful, but we can only recomend legal council. There will be no teeth in this.

Facebook is the way to grow and reach people from all over- it's better than a trip to the Abilities Expo in New Jersey. Through the i.d.e.a.l. magazine I met a lady who is an administrator for a disability website and is in contact with people who are all over the globe and in need of help. I sent her my things asking her to share them with others. I'm also going to try to combine with Easton hospital to do a disability celebration of the Americans with Disabilities Act. I'd love to hear people's ideas.

I altered the outline for the support group and now I'm really comfortable with it. The key, in my experience, is to make the group interactive. If a general question is posed to everyone and then we go around the room to discuss it thorough each person's perspective, that works best. I know I wouldn't want to listen to one person talk about coping with disability. Everyone has their own views and strategies. I hope that at the end one person would be willing to join "Infobility." I also hope that Ken Silva will recommend my program to other groups. Physical therapists are the perfect people because they work with the disability I am really targeting.

I may be on the Bethlehem City Council eventually. I met one of the members, Karen Dolan, today and there's a new committee forming that will ensure that people are protected from discrimination in employment, housing, schools & public accommodations
I will get involved in advocacy on a higher level. This is what I've always wanted so it's time now to give the perspective of a person with a disability to those who seek it. I also won't be alone in my views because I will be part of a group.

A local high school called about us holding the drunk driving program at their school. This will be for a total of 900 kids most will be anticipating the prom and graduation parties. This is the perfect audience and it is exactly the location we want and we'll get media coverage for it too. Suddenly the speaker on the brain injury issues due to a drunk driving accident is nowhere to be found. He better respond soon, he used to write me four times a day, now I can't even find him. This will actually work.

If I want to regrow Infobility, unlike before I must have a real plan and a real mentor. I will ask Scott- a member of my synagogue, a member of the Independent Living Center, and a former psychologist. I'll meet with him on ideas and he may help me. Then I will contact and meet all physical therapists in local hospital and rehabilitation facilities after sending a letter and a flyer. Then I will ask my OVR counselor to share my stuff with others, I'd like to be a vendor, I would be great as a job coach and peer support specialist. It would be great to have an event along with another group such as Cancer Support. There are alot of things I never did.