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BRIEF: Having compassion for those with special needs

By: Tracy Simmons

Date:

May 16, 2012

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Tonight at 7 p.m. members of the Friends of Compassion will gather at The Center for Spiritual Living to discuss having compassion for people with special needs.

Speakers include Carol Baker, of the Department of Rehabilitation, Michelle Fulton, of the Spokane County Developmental Disabilities Department, Tommy Borges from a Veterans Housing Program and Lisa White, director of career and technical education programs for Spokane Schools and founder of the Career Focus program for High School students with Special Needs.

The meeting will be followed with a group discussion of attendees' own personal experiences and motivations regarding the issue.

The public is invited to attend.

Tracy Simmons

Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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