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JSDD: Life | Home | Tech Team Attends the 2025 SHA Conference

January 20, 2026 / JSDD News

Empowering Independence Through Technology. This year’s Supportive Housing Association (SHA) Conference brought together more than 350 leaders, innovators, and advocates intent on advancing supportive housing across New Jersey and beyond. JSDD’s Life | Home | Tech team was a part of this …

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Celebrating the Season Together & Honoring JSDD’s Dedicated Staff

January 14, 2026 / JSDD News

In December, JSDD hosted two holiday celebrations to ensure staff from all programs had a chance to come together, relax, and celebrate the season. There was an evening event for WAE Center Staff, Therapeutic Services and Heidi Gallery and a separate daytime …

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WAE Studio Brings in the Light & Joy

December 30, 2025 / WAE Center News

The WAE Studio is a place of constant motion, creativity, and interaction with quiet immersion in singular tasks, individual discoveries and small collaborations happening as well. A space full of light and invention and whimsy…
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Getting to Know… Jasmine Payne

December 30, 2025 / JSDD News, Staff, WAE Center News

Title: WAE Center Floor Supervisor When did you start at JSDD? I worked for JSDD in 2016 as a DSP in the West Orange Group Home. Then in February 2024 I started working in the WAE Center as a DSP. In September …

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WAE Holiday Celebration

December 29, 2025 / WAE Center News

A beautiful celebration of the community of people who make the WAE Center tick and hum and move in all of the ways that a thriving program does! Thanks go out to every single member of the team for helping to make …

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Connecting Life Experiences through Speech Therapy

November 4, 2025 / JSDD News

One of the unique and incredible practices of The WAE Center is an openness to trying new things. Not only is every member supported here, but the staff is supported in exploring new ways to help members be their best...
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Susan from Life Home Tech, alongside 5 students from Kean University

Life | Home | Tech teams up with Kean University

November 4, 2025 / JSDD News

JSDD is proud to announce a new partnership between its Life | Home | Tech (LHT) Enabling Technology Initiative and the Occupational Therapy Program at Kean University...
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Heidi Happenings – Fall 2025

November 4, 2025 / Heidi Gallery News

The WAE Open and Beyond. When I had the idea of doing a juried art show called the WAE Open, my hopes were that it would become an all-inclusive cornerstone exhibition for Heidi Gallery. Now in its 4th year, the WAE Open has become that and so much more...
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Celebrating 25 Years of Home, Friendship, and Independence

November 4, 2025 / JSDD News

This fall, family, friends, staff, and board members gathered in Livingston to celebrate a truly special milestone — the 25th anniversary of one of JSDD’s cherished group homes, a residence that has been home to four remarkable women for a quarter of …

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JSDD: Life | Home | Tech Explores the Future of Enabling Technology at Open Minds 2025 Conference

October 28, 2025 / JSDD News

JSDD: Life | Home | Tech staff, Susan Nasberg-Abrams, Aubrie George and Jessica Goldstein attended the Open Minds 2025 Conference in Philadelphia. The event brought together innovators, service providers, and thought leaders from across the country to discuss how technology is transforming …

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