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Six Montanans earn Courage and Advocacy Awards for helping disabled. – "ONE MONTANA"

Six Montana residents and three organizations were recipients of the Montana Advocacy Program’s Courage and Advocacy awards, presented Thursday night in Helena.

At an awards dinner with the theme "One Montana," the honorees were recognized for outstanding achievement in fighting for the rights of Montanans with disabilities.

By Tribune Staff

Full Story: http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070126/NEWS01/701260324/1002

The Montana Advocacy Program (MAP) is a non-profit corporation that administers eight Protection and Advocacy programs and one private program that advocate the rights of Montanans with disabilities. http://mtadv.org/

The Rural Institute at the University of Montana – Center for Excellence in Disability Education, Research, and Service, is part of the national network of programs funded by the Federal Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD) committed to increasing and supporting the independence, productivity, and inclusion of persons with disabilities into the community. http://ruralinstitute.umt.edu/index.asp

The Montana Council on Developmental Disabilities – The goal of the Council is to increase the independence, productivity, inclusion and integration into the community of people with developmental disabilities through systemic change, capacity building and advocacy activities. The Council has attempted to meet this goal through a two-prong advocacy approach, our State Plan and our Grant Program. http://www.mtcdd.org/

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UM archer targets achievement despite disabilities

Story by Patrick Cross
Montana Kaimin

Never moving his eyes from the target, Danny Gundlach nocks an arrow to the bow tucked under his right arm, switches the bow to his left hand, and smoothly raises it to a steady aim. He reaches forward to draw back the bowstring, but rather than pinching it with his fingers, he grabs it with the inside corner of his elbow.

That is because Gundlach does not have fingers, or a hand or a forearm for that matter, on his right arm to grab the bowstring with. Yet with a subtle twist of his elbow, he lets fly the arrow and watches it pierce a hay bale 50 feet away.

Full Story: http://www.montanakaimin.com/index.php/outdoors/outdoors_article/um_archer_targets_achievement_despite_disabilities/

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