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Text Box: The Idaho Family Support 360 Project is dedicated to strengthening the current family support system in the State of Idaho.  The 20+member Policy Council for the Project consists of community partners, agencies, individuals with a disability, family members who have a child with a disability, and advocacy groups. For more information about our Project, the Policy Council, or how to become involved with family support resources in Idaho contact: jills@uidaho.edu 208-659-1643 800-393-7290 connectingfamilies.net Text Box: Epilepsy Awareness Campaign:  Amy Lee, lead singer of Evanescence, is leading the charge www.epilepsyfoundation.org to raise epilepsy awareness in November—Epilepsy Month. Learn more at the national Epilepsy Foundation site.  The Young & The Restless:  Speaking of Epilepsy, Victor Newman - popular character for decades - has recently been diagnosed with temporal lobe seizures. He has undergone surgery, takes medicine, and has an assistance dog. In another storyline, Devon - a college student who recently recovered from Meningitis - has acquired total deafness. The show has incorporated adaptive technology, inter-preters, and Devon’s family is exploring Cochlear Implants - the pro’s and the con’s.  More on Radio, Film, TV:  Josh Blue, 2006 winner of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, has a ton of great comedy available at You Tube www.youtube.com and at his website http://joshblue.com/index_lo.html National Public Radio (NPR) - Beyond Affliction, The Disability History Project:  http://www.npr.org/programs/disability/ Designed for teachers, this site reviews films with themes about or characters with disabilities. http://www.disabilityfilms.co.uk/ For those of you with the BBC in your cable package, check out some of the shows having great characters with disabilities. http://www.bbc.co.uk/   Disability & the Arts: The Nat’l Arts & Disability Ctr, for info on art and careers in art, thru the University of CA, LA: http://nadc.ucla.edu/   VSA arts - Nat’l website: http://www.vsarts.org/ Idaho VSA website: http://www.ipulidaho.org/vsa/index.html  

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