The History of IDD (Part 1)

Hey KenCrest team, I’m Aurora Kripa, the Chief Operating Officer and your guest blogger for September. Welcome to the first part of our series on the history of Intellectual and…

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Building Trusting Relationships

Hello, Everyone! This is Colleen Kelly, the Chief Financial Officer for KenCrest. I am happy to be Marian’s guest blogger for the month of August. My blog series will share some…

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Goal Setting

Hello. I am Colleen Kelly, the Chief Financial Officer for KenCrest. I am happy to be Marian’s guest blogger for the month of August. My blog series will share some…

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Get on a New Track

I was given the honor once of introducing the writer, Rachel Simon. She had just written the book Riding the Bus with My Sister. I had read about Rachel and…

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Practice Hard Empathy

I can’t tell you how often I have heard, “I didn’t know.”  It is most often followed by, “If I had known, I would have __________ (fill in the blank).” …

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Some Things Will Remain True

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a bit of a rebel and a person with a disability. She was an English poet of the Romantic movement, and as a child, she developed…

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Know the Way, Show the Way, Go the Way

 Years ago, I had a few stress-relieving, somewhat guilty pleasures. I binge-watched “Say Yes to the Dress.”  I am already married. I cannot imagine spending 10,000 dollars for a dress.…

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Be Imperfect 

Recently, I was stunned to hear that there are societies that wish to eliminate the possibility of giving birth to children with Down Syndrome. I understand that having a child…

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