Sudbury Access Avenue

09/05/2026

A spinal cord injury doesn't stop the love of nature. In fact, it can make a love of nature even greater - for all its helpful benefits.

September is Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Awareness Month, and I'm excited to share some of the work Birdability is doing to help make birding part of rehabilitation, recreation, and community connection for people experiencing spinal cord injury.

Through support from the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation, our Birdability Outreach Program is building partnerships with rehabilitation hospitals around the country, including Shepherd Center in Georgia, Craig Hospital in Colorado, and Frazier Rehabilitation Institute in Kentucky.

With our partners, we are exploring what it can look like to bring birding into rehabilitation settings.

Connecting with birds can offer a reason to notice what is happening beyond the walls of a hospital or rehab center. It can create moments of curiosity and joy, as well as offering opportunities to practice new ways of moving through the world, using adaptive equipment, and spending time outdoors.

Birding can also be deeply social. It gives people something to share with family members, peers, staff, and a much larger community of people who are also looking up, listening, and paying attention to the birds around them.

Our goal with these partnerships is to work alongside rehabilitation professionals and people with lived experience of SCI to continue learning about meaningful nature connection during rehabilitation and beyond.

We are still learning, building, and growing this work, and we are really excited about where these partnerships can lead.

Access to nature, recreation, and community should be part of life after spinal cord injury. And sometimes, a bird outside the window or on the trail is a very good place to begin.

Image description: At the Birdability Outreach Program launch w/ Craig Hospital in Colorado, a man using a manual wheelchair sits on a paved outdoor trail with a young child on his lap. He looks toward people standing nearby as one speaks to the group.

09/05/2026

Do you have a young family member or friend with food allergy? This free resource is for you.

Grandparents, honorary grandparents (grandfriends), and other close family friends play such an important role in a child’s life and when a child has food allergies, understanding how to keep them safe can build confidence for the entire family – and allow everyone to focus on what matters most:...

09/02/2026

This survey closes end of day, Monday Sep 7th. It may not be of ideal design, but there are a couple of open fields available for expressing your ideas. We have the opportunity to grow recreational and social opportunities on this Town property. The committee needs to hear what you think.

09/02/2026

Launch the new school year with your friends in Sudbury SEPAC. What do the coming months have in store? Are there things you should know about? For example: Do changes to several school policies impact your children?

𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐮𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫!

All are welcome to join us for our first board meeting to be held virtually this Thursday, Sept 3rd, at 7pm. We’ll be discussing plans for the coming months as well as hearing updates from the district. We also plan to review the “Policy JKAA - Physical Restraint, Time Out, and Seclusion” recently proposed by SPS, a critical topic on which we would love to hear community members’ perspectives.

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧:Thursday, September 3rd • 7:00PM

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: https://meet.google.com/gjj-mamd-zwt

All families of SPS' students and interested community members are invited to participate. Our meetings are a wonderful opportunity to ask questions, share ideas, and learn about SEPAC events and resources!

08/30/2026

This is so needed right now. Maybe they will schedule another session at a large venue soon.

On September 10, the Sudbury Police Department will host MassBike for an educational presentation and conversation focused on bicycle and e-bike safety.

The presentation is geared toward parents and adult bicycle riders, particularly those who are newer to cycling in Sudbury. Topics will include the roles and responsibilities of bicyclists, safe riding practices, applicable laws, and important safety considerations for both traditional bicycles and e-bikes.

The event start time is subject to minor changes, which will be solidified before the date. Due to space limitations, attendance will be limited to 30 Sudbury residents.

The Sudbury Police Department plans to offer additional bicycle safety training opportunities in the future, including programs specifically designed for youth. We encourage anyone interested in learning more about safe bicycling and e-bike use to participate.

Please use the link or QR code to register.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D4FAAA92EA1FAC07-65451671-sudbury

08/27/2026

Here is the registration link: https://forms.foodallergy.org/261605783008154

08/22/2026

Let's go for it again. To have a blast, kick it at TOPS Soccer.

08/19/2026

The design of Head Start was groundbreaking and a model to inclusion in education. Can we keep it?

Families of children with disabilities already struggle to find childcare and early learning programs that will enroll and support their child. Now, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is proposing changes that could make one of the country’s most inclusive early childhood programs less accountable for doing so.

Head Start was including children with disabilities a decade before federal law guaranteed their right to a public education. Its performance standards require programs to address assessments, accommodations, exclusion, IEP coordination, and other parts of serving children with disabilities. HHS wants to remove many of those detailed requirements.

In a new op-ed for The 74, our CEO Katy Neas warns that disability laws are not enough if Head Start programs lose the rules that make inclusion possible. Under the proposal, programs would no longer have to assess every child’s development, accommodate every child’s participation, follow the same protections against suspension and expulsion, or help families navigate the IEP process. It would also remove the specific rule barring programs from turning children away because of a disability or chronic health condition.

For decades, Head Start has shown that disability inclusion in early childhood education can work. Weakening the standards that help programs deliver it would move us in the wrong direction.

07/20/2026

https://www.facebook.com/birdability/posts/pfbid0293avN9UauZFoHxUAKnJQMKi3uJwsPkybmGK1T3Vn5rzd2m1WqMUPouX7jWmJrkwbl

07/06/2026