Warren County Developmental Disabilities Board

08/05/2025

07/26/2025

☀️💦 Come make a joyful splash with us! 💦☀️

Harbor Unlimited invites you to our End of Summer SPLASH—a chance to gather, laugh, and enjoy a morning of connection, water fun, and community.

🗓 Saturday, August 9, 2025
🕘 9 AM – 12 PM (Volunteers at 8 AM)
📍 Veteran’s Tribute Park – Pavilion 2 (next to the playground)
📫 1031 Kisker Road, St. Charles, MO 63304

🎉 You’ll enjoy:
💧 Splash pad play
🌈 Bubble van fun
🏃 Water games for all ages and abilities
💙 A welcoming space for families who just “get it”

This event is FREE and open to individuals with disabilities and their families. We believe in celebrating every person and every moment of joy.

📲 RSVP here: www.harborunlimited.com/events

Let’s wrap up summer with connection, laughter, and lots of splashes!

07/21/2025

Drive thru this Tuesday, 10am to 11am.
**Due to heat advisory we appreciate your patience as we serve clients one at a time. This process keeps food from perishing in the heat and is helpful to the well-being of volunteers.**

07/17/2025

🎉 National Night Out 🎉
📅 Tuesday, August 5th
📍 Bruer Park
🕔 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM

FREE l!!!!

Join us for a fun-filled evening with neighbors, food, games, music, and more! Bring the whole family and help build a stronger, safer community together! 💙👮‍♂️🚒🍔🎶

07/17/2025

People with disabilities are too often left out of conversations about emergency preparedness.

This upcoming webinar — Disaster Preparedness for Parents with Disabilities — brings together disability advocates and experts to share their insights.

They’ll offer practical guidance, share lived experiences, and highlight inclusive strategies to help parents with disabilities stay safe during a disaster.

Date: July 21, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM ET
Register here: https://zurl.co/DEEoc

07/15/2025

"Let’s go out in the community." Said no one, ever. So why do professionals keep using phrases that sound more like a policy manual than a conversation?

Most people don’t talk like that. But professionals often do, not because they must, but because professional language creates space. Distance. Safety. It’s formal, clinical, and, let’s be honest, confusing. And that’s the cruel irony: using complex, coded language with people whose disability already makes understanding difficult. It’s like saying, “Oh, you’re struggling to understand? Here, let me make that worse for you.”

This isn’t about one awkward question. It’s about how language becomes a wall instead of a bridge. We say we want to connect, support, empower, but our words often tell a different story. Plain language isn’t dumbing it down; it’s opening it up. It’s about respect. It's about access. When we speak in words everyone can understand, we honour the dignity of those we support.

Because if we want to be understood, we have to start by speaking in ways that invite understanding.
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ID: Image shows a social worker and a man with a disability. The speech bubble displays a conversation that took place between a social worker and Steven Neary. The social worker says: Have you been on your community program today. Steven says: No I went swimming.

07/10/2025

THIS Friday, please join us at Bethel Hills Community 10450 Voelkerding Rd, for an Independence Day Celebration. Thank you to Tim and Lynne Unnerstall for donating this year’s fireworks🎉
Bring your lawn chairs!
See flyer below for information.

07/07/2025

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07/04/2025

07/01/2025

The House is debating the final bill to cut over $900 billion in Medicaid funds, cuts that will directly harm people with disabilities, children, older adults, and caregivers across the country. This is our last chance to stop the damage this bill will do and protect millions of families from losing the services and support they rely on every day. Can you email your member of Congress right now and urge them to reject this bill before it’s too late? https://easterseals.quorum.us/campaign/125596/

06/27/2025

Step back in time for a “roaring good” time!- funded by Warren County SB 40.

06/26/2025

A service can provide supports to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. But it cannot be the life. It cannot replace friendship. It cannot substitute for freedom. It cannot stand in for love.

Too often, disability services are built around managing people, keeping them "busy", keeping them "compliant", keeping them "safe". But people don’t grow under management. They grow in freedom. In trust. In community.

“I want a life, not a service” is not just a critique of how things are, it’s a demand. A demand to be seen as a full human being, not a bundle of needs.

If we truly believe in inclusion, if we truly believe in rights, we need to stop building better services and start asking:

What does it take for someone to have a real life?

And then do that.
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ID: Image shows a man smiling giving a thumbs up. Words read: I want a life not a service.