[blparent] FW: [Chapter-presidents] Help us to bring Mikaelahome

Thu Jul 1 04:26:51 UTC 2010

I was just thinking that a good place to start teaching or as it will be,
educating them is in the colleges and universities.  We should get them
before they get their degrees. V

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From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Sharin
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 4:31 PM
To: 'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [blparent] FW: [Chapter-presidents] Help us to bring
Mikaelahome

I just got my MSW in May. I really didn't feel my program at NYU had nearly
enough info on disabilities. I did a presentation once for my practice class
in which I talked about growing up as a blind child, being a blind mother,
and everything in between, as well as showing a few adaptive aids. I tried
to make the point that a person with a disability is often more capable than
is assumed and that the person should be asked about what services would be
helpful to them instead of a worker making decisions for them. the class
just kept saying how strong I was and that they didn't think everyone with a
disability had my strength. It was frustrating how un-enlightened my peers
were, and the professor as well. 

Sharin  

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From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Nikki Fugett-Dobens
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 5:23 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] FW: [Chapter-presidents] Help us to bring
Mikaelahome

    This is so upsetting.  It gives social workers a bad name, and it hits 
close to home, because I have my degree in this field.  Knowing the classes 
that they must take to graduate, thinking like this should not exist in this

field.  Social workers are always taught to respect different cultures, 
disabilities, and circumstances.  How a CPS worker could actually hold these

thoughts is beyond me.  That nurse should also respect differences as well.
It makes me so upset that there are people out there that think we, as blind

parents, can't raise our children.  I truly hope that little girl is home 
soon.  I wonder when the final hearing is?
Nikki
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From: "Elizabeth Cooks" <elizabethcooks at comcast.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [blparent] FW: [Chapter-presidents] Help us to bring 
Mikaelahome

>I think the hospital should be sued for this and the nurse fired.  I want 
>to just strangle those people who act like this, and the baby has lost 
>precious bonding time with her mother.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net>
> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 9:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [blparent] FW: [Chapter-presidents] Help us to bring 
> Mikaelahome
>
>
>> This just puts me in tears.  Is it really going to cost all that much? 
>> What about the ACLU?  Is there any place to make a donation by credit 
>> card for people who will not be attending the convention?  I can't 
>> believe she isn't home yet!
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
>> Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 8:43 PM
>> To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: [blparent] FW: [Chapter-presidents] Help us to bring Mikaela 
>> home
>>
>>> Here is an update, we all have been waiting to hear. Veronica
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: chapter-presidents-bounces at nfbnet.org
>>> [mailto:chapter-presidents-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Debbie 
>>> Wunder
>>> Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 8:27 PM
>>> To: Chapter Presidents
>>> Subject: [Chapter-presidents] Help us to bring Mikaela home
>>>
>>> Sugar & Spice
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> And Everything Nice
>>>
>>> That is what little Girls Are Made Of
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Erica and Blake, a young couple awaiting the birth of their first child 
>>> with
>>> joy and happiness. BabyMikaela  was born at 12:45pm, May 21. Not unlike 
>>> many
>>> new mothers Erica experienced some difficulty in her first breast 
>>> feeding
>>> ofMikaela, she called the nurse for some advise. By 6:00pm child 
>>> protective
>>> services arrived at the hospital to say the parents could not 
>>> takeMikaela
>>> home, unless they had a sighted person to live with them.
>>>
>>> In all the investigations, blindness is the only reason sited for the
>>> parents not being allowed to leave with their new baby girl.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The Missouri affiliate has hired an attorney at $250 per hour, and her
>>> assistant at $85 per hour to bring Mikaela home where she belongs!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Please help with any donations possible to unite this family. You may 
>>> stop
>>> by the Missouri table, B 114 in the exhibit hall, or come by our 
>>> delegation.
>>>
>>>
>>> We, the National Federation of the Blind can bring Mikaela home to her
>>> parents where she belongs! Thank you for any help you can give.
>>>
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