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Subject: FW: Independent Living Centers provide remote services<br>
From: "Sigman, Brian" <<a href="mailto:Brian.Sigman@ct.gov">Brian.Sigman@ct.gov</a>><br>
Date: Thu, March 12, 2020 4:20 pm<br><br>
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</style> <div class="WordSection1"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">I just received this notice moments ago. It is effective starting tomorrow, March 13<sup>th</sup>. Please help to share this important information. Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div> <div> <div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">From: Daria F. Smith <<a href="mailto:daria@ctsilc.org">daria@ctsilc.org</a>> <br> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2020 4:12 PM<br> To: Daria F. Smith <<a href="mailto:daria@ctsilc.org">daria@ctsilc.org</a>><br> Subject: Independent Living Centers provide remote services <br> Importance: High<o:p></o:p></span></b></div> </div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size:12pt;text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Independent Living Centers to Provide Remote Services Only </span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size:12pt;text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Starting Friday, March 13</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Connecticut’s five Independent Living Centers, who help an estimated 13,000 people with disabilities every year to live in the community, will close their doors as of Friday, March 13, and provide remote services only for the foreseeable future.</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The centers, located in Hartford, Naugatuck, Norwich, Stratford and West Haven, will continue to work with consumers by phone and email, Eileen Healy, Executive Director of Independence Northwest and chair of the Connecticut Association of Centers for Independent Living, said. The centers, however, where many consumers meet with counselors in person, will be closed and all group activities will be suspended.</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">“The health and safety of our consumers is our number one concern,” Healy said. “We will support consumers as much as possible remotely and reassess the conditions for re-opening the centers on an ongoing basis.”</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Healy added, “The phone lines in all of our centers will be open and messages will be checked regularly. Anyone needing assistance should call their independent living center. We are open for business, we’ll just be doing it by phone and email.” </span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The ILCs provide a wide range of services to individuals, regardless of nature or type of disability, including training in independent living skills, help with finding and maintaining housing, job readiness skills, in-home support services, and benefits counseling.</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The ILCs also implement the state’s Money Follows the Person program that helps people move from nursing facilities into the community, as well as programs to help people live in their homes, including structural modifications, security deposits, first month’s rent, personal assistance and transportation.</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Daria F. Smith, MSW<o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Executive Director<o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">CT State Independent Living Council <o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:daria@ctsilc.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1F4E79">daria@ctsilc.org</span></a><span style="color:#1F4E79"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.ctsilc.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1F4E79">www.ctsilc.org</span></a><span style="color:#1F4E79"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">860-724-6443 x234 (office)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">860-681-7599 (mobile) <o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">151 New Park Avenue, #75<o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Hartford, CT 06106<o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div> </div>
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