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2024 Statement on the Right to Live in the Community: Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

June 11-13, 2024 marked the seventeenth session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, held at the United Nations. This year’s theme revolved around rethinking disability inclusion, with a special focus on technology, humanitarian emergencies, and the right to decent work and a sustainable livelihood.
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Susan Dubbs, DSP

Direct Support Professional Recognition Week

Susan Dubbs has worked as a Direct Support Professional for over 37 years. When she began in 1986, people with disability were moving out of institutions and establishing lives in the community, and she has seen how people thrive in environments where they had opportunities to explore their interests and direct their own lives. That’s...
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Listen Include Respect from the United Nations to Day-to-Day Life

Listen Include Respect from the United Nations to Day-to-Day Life

How is individual choice and decision-making supported well, and how do we shift mindsets around the perceived capacity of people with intellectual and developmental disability? That’s one of the questions posed by Chuck Sweeder, President and CEO of Keystone Human Services
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Zero Project 2023 Award Winner Logo

Keystone Human Services Announces the International Zero Project Recognition of its Technology for Independent Living Program as an Innovative Model for Supporting People with Intellectual Disability

(Harrisburg, PA) December 2, 2022 – Keystone Human Services announced today that the innovative Technology for Independent Living program, launched in 2018 through KHS’s Intellectual Disability Services, has been recognized by the prestigious Vienna, Austria-based Zero Project as a model deserving global attention and replication.
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CGI 2016

Keystone Human Services Takes Action in the Clinton Global Initiative

On September 19-20, Keystone Human Services is participating in the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) , a gathering of global leaders committed to taking action to address some of the world’s most pressing issues. Charles Hooker, President and CEO, KHS; Charles Sweeder, President-Elect, KHS; Genevieve Fitzgibbon, Deputy Director, Keystone Human Services International; and Nicolae Ciocan, Director...
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ANCOR

Direct Support Professional Recognition Week

“Direct Support Professionals are at the heart of Keystone Human Services’ work,” said Greg Wellems, Executive Director of KHS’s Intellectual Disability Services.
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From US Embassy in Moldova

Keystone Moldova Meets with Special Advisor for International Disability Rights

Special Advisor for International Disability Rights Sara Minkara visited Keystone Moldova during her mid-August visit to the Republic of Moldova.
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Keystone Human Services and Keystone Moldova Meet with the US Ambassador to the Republic of Moldova

Keystone Human Services and Keystone Moldova Meet with the US Ambassador to the Republic of Moldova

On August 9, 2022, Genevieve Fitzgibbon, Deputy Director of Keystone Human Services International, Ludmila Malcoci, Regional Director of Keystone Human Services International and Executive Director of Keystone Moldova, and Nicolae Ciocan, Director of Administration for Keystone Moldova, met with Kent D. Logsdon, the US Ambassador to the Republic of Moldova, as well as Christian Burstall,...
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Hotline Support Service

Hotline Support Service Connects Refugees to Resources

When someone from Ukraine calls Keystone Moldova’s Hotline Support Service, they may be looking for food and hygiene products. They may be looking for necessary medications. They may be looking for adaptive equipment, psychological counseling, or information about accessible transformation for themselves or a family member with a disability.
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Child Playing with Blocks

Support for Ukraine: A Look Back at February-June 2022

Keystone Moldova has been supporting refugees from Ukraine since the war started in late February. From February through June: • 4,500 people, mostly mothers and children, used the tent at the Palanca border crossing • 159 calls came into the Hotline Support Service • 454 cases of direct support and medical assistance were provided by...
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