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

Thu Jul 1 04:28:33 UTC 2010

We should also invite ourselves to visit nursing classes.  I did that one
time, someone knew someone who knew me and they invited me to talk a little
about blindness..  V

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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 5:04 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] FW: [Chapter-presidents] Help us to bring
Mikaelahome

    I did some presentations as well, especially at my internship for groups

with youth.  Even still, respect for different cultures and differences was 
always a big part of my carriculum, and I feel like social workers should 
know to at least respect people with disabilities, even if they don't have a

lot of knowledge about what they're capable of.
Nikki  ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sharin" <coffeemommy at verizon.net>
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 6:30 PM
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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 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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