[Home-on-the-range] SRS expands access to services for Kansans who are blind or visually impaired

Thu Nov 4 13:33:57 UTC 2010

well,
that assumes that there's a meter that will measure such a low level 
of services, lol.
jc

At 06:16 AM 11/4/2010, you wrote:
>Hi Everyone,
>
>Dick Edlund always said that Services to the Blind in Kansas with 
>have to be down to nothing before our situation could be improved 
>and we could start over. I think we are about there.
>
>Susie
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: home-on-the-range-bounces at nfbnet.org 
>[mailto:home-on-the-range-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Susan Tabor
>Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 10:04 PM
>To: 'NFB of Kansas Internet Mailing List'
>Subject: Re: [Home-on-the-range] SRS expands access to services for 
>Kansans who are blind or visually impaired
>
>Hi, Andrew:
>
>Your points concerning selling seniors to the lowest bidder and closing
>KRCBVI to save money with no noble goal of providing services are
>well-taken. Another piece that I find troubling is that I see no guidelines
>or direction for these agencies concerning best practices in services to
>provide and in delivering those services. I also fear that there will be
>many rural parts of the state that will not be served because of "gravel
>cost" or that good old catch-all "lack of resources."
>
>So as you can see, I'm not overly optimistic. And I think it will get worse,
>unfortunately.
>Best Regards,
>Susan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: home-on-the-range-bounces at nfbnet.org
>[mailto:home-on-the-range-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Chapman
>Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 9:30 PM
>To: NFB of Kansas Internet Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [Home-on-the-range] SRS expands access to services for Kansans
>who are blind or visually impaired
>
>I can't speak to all of these agencies, but the fact that they've
>awarded a contract to Envision is not encouraging.
>
>This is actually very troub ling as these awarded contracts have a
>certain "Seal of Approval" effect.
>
>Furthermore, it is my understanding that this is the intended
>direction for transition/working age rehab training as well. I take
>issue with this based on the simple observation that the once-a-week
>in-your-hometown training just doesn't produce the results required
>for a working age blind person to be fully functioning with society,
>specifically holding a job. (That is VR's #1 concern, after all.)
>
>It looks to me like the state just auctioned off the well-being of
>it's blind seniors to the lowest bidder.
>
>Remember they shut down KRCBVI because it saved some money. They
>didn't do it with some noble goal of providing better services for the
>Blind.
>
>It's also worth noting that some of us recieved our training from
>private entities. The NFB training centers provide such great service
>this way.
>
>To be fair though, we haven't done a good job of countering the
>Envision propaganda machine. And we really don't have much of an
>alternative to offer.
>
>I'm afraid that if we want quality services, we may have to provide
>some of them ourselves.
>
>Have I gone off the deep end yet> Is their a peice of the puzzle that
>I'm missing?
>
>On 11/2/10, Stanzel, Susan - Kansas City, MO <susan.stanzel at kcc.usda.gov>
>wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I sent a resolution about this to Jim. It was passed in Iowa. I don't know
> > if it is something we should pass or not since we cannot say that Services
> > to the Blind does such a great job. I was thinking maybe we should talk
> > about the money earned going back to serve more blind people.
> >
> > Susie
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: home-on-the-range-bounces at nfbnet.org
> > [mailto:home-on-the-range-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Cindy Ray
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 9:37 AM
> > To: NFB of Kansas Internet Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [Home-on-the-range] SRS expands access to services for
>Kansans
> > who are blind or visually impaired
> >
> > I don't know what kind of reputation these agencies have in Kansas. It has
> > been too long since I was gone. However, for the sake of playing "devil's
> > advocate" let's assume there were no corporate bonuses. (I am assuming
>here
> > that you mean giving bonuses to employees.) If you are, and if these folks
> > had no show of appreciation for what they do, assuming they were actually
> > doing a good job and that the services were being efficiently handled and
> > people were benefitting from them, would no such bonuses not mean that you
> > would have a lower quality of employee working to improve the lives of
> > Kansans who are blind? At the same time, though, the lion's share of such
> > monies should truly be used for the purpose for which it was intended.
>This
> > could be naivety speaking here.
> > Cindy Lou
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