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CAREERS & the disABLED Magazine, established in 1986, is the nation's first and only career-guidance and recruitment magazine for people with disabilities who are at undergraduate, graduate, or professional levels. Each issue features a special Braille section.

CAREERS & the disABLED has won many awards, including several media "Award of Excellence" acknowledgments from the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities.

This magazine reaches people with disabilities nationwide at their home addresses, colleges and universities, and chapters of student and professional organizations through a paid subscription.


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 YORK COLLEGE STUDENT FIGHTS FOR RIGHTS OF DISABLED

 
York College (York, PA) freshman Tristan Schilling, a mass communications major from Glen Rock, PA, lives with cerebral palsy and requires the assistance of a motorized vehicle and a support nurse to traverse campus. When governmental red tape failed to provide sufficient funding for him to have personal care assistants while on campus, he was motivated to act.
 
Apparent political maneuvering be - tween the Western Pennsylvania-based disability provider Gateway Health and the Pennsylvania De - partment of Human Services turned into a battle with Schilling caught in the middle.
 
The college freshman found an ally in Pennsylvania State Senator Scott Wagner, who summoned three Gateway Health senior executives to his office in the state capitol in Harrisburg, PA to meet with Schilling. Gateway representatives included president and CEO Patricia Darnley, chief clinical administrative officer Marie Glancy, and legislative director Tracy Lawless.
 
Citing his representation for all persons with disabilities, Schilling challenged Gateway Health to stop the unnecessary infighting with state government. “I think it’s silly that corporations are denying the very services to those people they are supposed to be helping,” says Schilling. “I understand that there are limits and processes, but there is a difference between going through the process and repeated refusals.”
 
Wagner told Shilling he is committed to investigating administrative issues that, without resolution, may limit Tristan’s ability to attend York College.
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