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‘Side by Side’ theme also promoted for awareness month
Officials from the Logan Country Board of Developmental Disabilities have announced the launch of “Side by Side” — a yearlong campaign to recognize the 50th anniversary of Ohio’s County Boards of Developmental Disabilities. It also serve as the theme for this year’s Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month in March.
The Side by Side campaign marks the founding of Ohio’s 88 county boards by the Ohio General Assembly in 1967 through Senate Bill 169. The theme reflects the continuity of support, promotion of opportunity, and history of partnership county boards have offered to people with developmental disabilities and their families throughout the past, in the present and in the future.
“Reflecting upon our history and looking toward our future is a wonderful way to mark the 50th anniversary of Ohio’s county boards and DD Awareness Month, which is all about building awareness and understanding among the public about the lives of people with developmental disabilities,” Logan County Board of Developmental Disabilities Superintendent Saul Bauer said in a release.
Read complete story in Thursday’s Examiner.
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