<div>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Allen, Krystle</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:Krystle.Allen@dhs.nj.gov">Krystle.Allen@dhs.nj.gov</a>></span><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Date: Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 8:57 AM<br>Subject: Please join us and share the announcement<br><br></div><br><br>




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<b><i><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0in;background:white;color:black">Hosted by Krystle Allen, CBVI Community Outreach Specialist  </span></i></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px;color:black"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;letter-spacing:-0.4pt;background:white">Every July is Disability Pride Month, a worldwide observance holiday which promotes awareness of the
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<span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;letter-spacing:-0.4pt;background:white">It is also the time to celebrate the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act and to<span style="margin:0px"> <span> </span></span>highlight
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<span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;background:white">This month’s panelists are all individuals who are blind, who will each share empowering information as well as their own
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<span style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0in">Vito J. DeSantis, Retired U.S. Army Captain and Executive Director, CBVI; Currently Chair of the State Rehabilitation
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<span style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0in">Edward Sroczynski, Supervisor of Vocational Rehabilitation Services, CBVI </span></p>
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<span style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0in">Michael Outwater, Community Activist and CBVI ASPIRE Peer-Support Group Facilitator </span></p>
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<span style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0in">Joanna Benthall, First Blind Person to Earn the National Child Development Association Credential and who is
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