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March 18 2025

SCI Survivors of Violence and Other Trauma

Pushing Forward Provides Exceptional SupportFor many years, Gathering Strength has collaborated with Pushing Forward, another nonprofit in Louisville, Kentucky. Pushing Forward was founded by Kiara James who has a Masters in Public Health and many years of experience working at the University of Louisville Hospital Trauma Institute. She provides extraordinary, trauma-informed assistance to spinal cord […]

A teal colored square with the words: According to the CDC, 1 in 4 adults in the U.S. is living with a disability.

March 17 2025

The Importance of Accessible Housing

Elizabeth Fust Accessible Housing, Community Inclusion, Independence

Stronger Together Newsletter – Fall 2024In 2006, I suffered a spinal cord stroke. There was no warning and no one knows why it happened. Anything can happen to anyone at any time; everything changed for me that day. EMS took me from my bathroom floor to the emergency room. After surgery, I was admitted to the […]