[Ct-nfb] Fwd: Redesignation of CT's Protection & Advocacy System

Fri Feb 24 16:18:33 UTC 2017

Hi Gary,

This message might explain why the Client Assistance Program (CAP) has been completely unresponsive (except for a few voicemails in phone tag that stopped coming to me months ago) as I have been trying to use them to help me advocate for the things which BESB has denied me in my job placement.

If I end up back in Connecticut soon as an unemployed blind person, I will have to try again with BESB, and I hope that the transition period for the CAP program does not leave us without CAP for ANY period of time. I wonder if the people at the Office of Protection and Advocacy are trying to get out of taking up new cases or just not trying anymore because of how they’re shutting down. I hope that’s not the case, but I’m running out of excuses to make on their behalf.

Gary, this might be an opportunity for you to really shine as your new president. You are a rehab counselor. What’s going on with our CAP program, and how can BESB clients get what they need?

Happy Friday!

Justin

Justin M. Salisbury, MA, NOMC, NCRTB, NCUEB
Pre-Authorized Contribution Plan Coordinator
National Federation of the Blind of Hawaii
Email: President at Alumni.ECU.edu<mailto:President at Alumni.ECU.edu>
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-salisbury

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

William Butler Yeats

From: CT-NFB [mailto:ct-nfb-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Gary Allen via CT-NFB
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 7:00 AM
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Subject: [Ct-nfb] Fwd: Redesignation of CT's Protection & Advocacy System

From: "Sigman, Brian" <Brian.Sigman at ct.gov<mailto:Brian.Sigman at ct.gov>>

Date: January 24, 2017 at 11:47:17 AM EST

To: DORS-DL BESB <DORS-DLBESB at ct.gov<mailto:DORS-DLBESB at ct.gov>>

Subject: FW: Redesignation of CT's Protection & Advocacy System

Dear DORS-BESB staff and community partners, I am passing along the attached notice of a public hearing regarding the redesignation of Connecticut’s Protection

and Advocacy System.

From: Guttchen, David J.

Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 10:24 AM

Subject: FW: Redesignation of CT's Protection & Advocacy System

Greetings.

Attached please find a Notice for a Public Hearing to be held regarding the Governor’s intent to redesignate Connecticut’s Protection and Advocacy System for Persons with

Disabilities and Client Assistance Program.  The hearing will be held March 10th at 10 AM at the Department of Transportation in Newington.  Public comments are also welcomed as noted in the previous email I sent.

I would greatly appreciate it if you could pass this Notice along to any individual or entity you feel should be made aware of it.

Thank you for all your help with this matter.

Take care –

David Guttchen

Chair

Long-Term Care Planning Committee

Office of Policy and Management

From: Guttchen, David J.

Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 12:56 PM

Subject: Redesignation of CT's Protection & Advocacy System

Greetings.

Public Act 16-66 requires Governor Malloy, no later than July 1, 2017, to designate a nonprofit entity to replace the Office of Protection and Advocacy for Persons with

Disabilities as Connecticut’s Protection and Advocacy System.

Attached please find the Governor’s Public Notice of his intent to designate the non-profit entity Disability Rights CT as Connecticut’s Protection and Advocacy System and

to operate Connecticut’s Client Assistance Program for Persons with Disabilities.

Written comments are welcome regarding this matter and will be accepted until Friday March 10, 2017.  Written comments can be submitted:

By mail to:

P&A/CAP Redesignation

Office of Policy and Management

450 Capitol Ave., MS#52LTC

Hartford, CT 06106

or by email to:

protectionandadvocacy at ct.gov<mailto:protectionandadvocacy at ct.gov>

In addition, a Public Hearing will be held at 10 A.M. on Friday March 10, 2017 at the Department of Transportation at 2800 Berlin Turnpike in Newington, CT.  A notice with

more information about the Public Hearing will be distributed in the near future.

I would greatly appreciate it if you could pass the Notice along to any individual or entity you feel should be made aware of it.

Thank you for all your help with this matter.

Take care –

David Guttchen

Chair

Long-Term Care Planning Committee

Office of Policy and Management

--
Gary Allen
President
National Federation of the Blind
Of Connectucut
(860) 589-2241
garyallenct at gmail.com<mailto:garyallenct at gmail.com>
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