During this month’s Medical Outreach Meeting, Dr. Stephanie Meredith presented ideas for making connections with healthcare providers during the holidays! Holiday Outreach Ideas We curated a fantastic list of ideas to connect with medical providers during the holidays: Holiday Cards Holiday Packet Mail or drop off a small packet with: Read more…
During this month’s Medical Outreach Meeting, Dr. Stephanie Meredith presented on prenatal and postnatal support resources for families that address access barriers to transportation, finances, food, housing, and healthcare. This can be a valuable component of medical outreach because clinicians can more greatly value your organization as an entity that Read more…
During this month’s Medical Outreach Meeting, Dr. Stephanie Meredith and Bill Gaventa discussed how we can reach new and expectant parents through faith-based organizations. See below for the presentation audio and slides, and read on for a written summary and extra resources! Faith-Based Outreach Faith communities are trusted sources of Read more…
During this month’s Medical Outreach Meeting, Dr. Stephanie Meredith presented on how to reach out to medical providers who are caring for patients with Down syndrome across the lifespan. Transition Handbook Dr. Meredith discussed updates to the Down Syndrome Transition Handbook, which she recently helped Jo Ann Simons (CEO of Read more…
During this month’s Down Syndrome Collaborative meeting, Stephanie Smith Lee (Policy & Advocacy Co-Director of the National Down Syndrome Congress) presented on disability rights and supporting new and expecting parents. Stephanie Smith Lee discusses the progress and challenges in disability advocacy, from the the signing of the ADA in 1990, Read more…
For this month’s Medical Outreach Meeting, Dr. Stephanie Meredith presented on how to support families with financial need and how this benefits your medical outreach program. Social Determinants of Health Finances fall under the umbrella of social determinants of health (SDOH) – non-medical factors that affect health outcomes and can Read more…
For this month’s Medical Outreach Meeting, Dr. Stephanie Meredith presented on translating resources to other languages such as Haitian Creole. Watch a recording of this meeting below and read on for a summary and helpful links! Finding Existing Resources In this meeting, Dr. Stephanie Meredith demonstrated how she looks for Read more…
Last week, we held our first Medical Outreach Meeting meeting of 2025! In this meeting, Dr. Stephanie Meredith presented on how to apply for CMEs and CEUs for presentations or webinars. Dr. Meredith shared a number of helpful tips and tricks for successfully applying for professional education credits, including: Join Read more…
Mitchell Levitz, a Self-Advocate with Down syndrome and Co-Author of Count Us In, shares a recorded presentation for medical students, physicians and other health professionals about how to discuss disabilities and to offer clinical care to people with disabilities and their caregivers: I developed this presentation for you to use Read more…
Happy New Year from all of us at Lettercase! We are looking forward to another year of developing and translating resources, carrying out new and exciting research, and providing training to providers and advocacy leaders. We are also excited to see and learn from the new and ongoing accomplishments of Read more…