Not Just Blowing Smoke Having trouble catching your breath these days? I have asthma, and I’ve learned that it’s up to me to do whatever it takes to get through each day as best I can. That includes monitoring the smoke in the air from the Canadian wildfires so I can...
A Resource Center For Deaf and Hearing-Impaired Individuals You might wonder what a Resource Center for people with hearing loss is. Disability Network Lakeshore has received a small grant to start a Resource Center that allowed us to purchase assistive technology...
Post Covid This Thursday, May 11, 2023, marks the official end of the COVID-19 health crisis. In the United States, over a million people were lost, and many more continue to suffer from the after-effects, or “long COVID” as it’s known. In Michigan, over 38,000 people...
A New Way of Life Doesn’t it feel like we are past the worst of the COVID-19 crisis? We are all relaxing now and, to be honest, I think most of us have let our guard down and aren’t all that concerned about contracting COVID anymore. Yesterday I started feeling like...
Disaster Scams It’s unfortunate that there are people who prey on the weak and injured, yet in our society, they exist. Individuals who take advantage of people who have been involved in a disaster often portray themselves as government representatives with important...
Person-Centered Planning Disability Network Lakeshore (DNL) staff use Person-Centered Planning (PCP) in determining the path we will follow when working with consumers. PCP is a process where we interview you to identify what it is you want and how you want to go...
