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Connections for Independent Living’s Connect with Friends program provides weekly in-person and online video conferencing workshops specifically for persons in northeastern Colorado who live with a disability.
This is an opportunity to meet and collaborate with other Coloradans and share experiences.
Workshops include interests ranging from armchair travel to photography to creative writing and journaling.
There’s no charge to participate for persons who live with a disability and their caregivers. You must be a resident of Weld, Morgan, Logan, Washington, Sedgwick, Yuma, or Phillips County.
Workshops are underway. Join us today!
For more information regarding this program, please call your Independent Living Specialist at (970) 352-8682, or send us an email message. If you’re ready to participate, your Independent Living Specialist can register you, or you can use the form below to register for the sessions of your choice.
This session will begin June 1 and continue every Wednesday until July 13th.
What is armchair travel?
Using various activities and games to activate the synopses in your brain. This will improve your memory and keep your brain young.
Learn how to use your phone or tablet to take meaningful photos using a program called PhotoVoice
Storytelling is the social and cultural activity of sharing stories. Every culture has its own stories or narratives, which are shared as a means of entertainment, education, cultural preservation or instilling moral values. Crucial elements of stories and storytelling include plot, characters and narrative point of view. Learn the skills needed to tell your story.
Participants tell their story through video. A limited number of devices are available for free loan from the Connections Loan Closet.
More information coming soon!
Learn how to write using various fun methods to journal, write humorous stories or write your own life story. Practice these skills in a non-threatening environment.
Discover how to search for documentation on your ancestors and why it is important to tell your story for other generations.
The Disability Funding Committee was created in¬ß24-30-2201, C.R.S. (effective August 11, 2016) pursuant to HB 16-1362. This bill consolidated the work of two previous committees: the Disability-Benefit Support Committee and the License Plate Auction Group. The committee consists of thirteen members appointed by the governor. Of the thirteen members, at least seven members must be either a person with a disability, a care giver of a person with a disability, or a person who lives in a household with a person with a disability and is meaningfully involved in the care of a person with a disability. In making the appointments, the governor shall ensure that the committee has members with experience in or knowledge of business and business management‚ nonprofit entities and managing nonprofit entities, advocacy for persons with disabilities, the practice of medicine, and the practice of law with experience working with persons with disabilities. In addition to the thirteen members, the governor\’s council for persons with disabilities may, in consultation with the committee, appoint a representative to serve on the committee in an ex officio capacity.The Disability Funding Committee was created in¬ß24-30-2201, C.R.S. (effective August 11, 2016) pursuant to HB 16-1362. This bill consolidated the work of two previous committees: the Disability-Benefit Support Committee and the License Plate Auction Group.
1331 8th Avenue
Greeley, Colorado 80631-4601
Phone: (970) 352-8682
Fax: (970) 353-8058
Email: info@connections4il.org
Monday-Friday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
In-person and remote services
Appointments required for in-person
