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Randy,'<br>
Your point is well said. However, when operating on a dead-line, I
don't always think as clearly as I could have written things.<br>
Janice<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/11/2013 9:21 PM, Randy Pope
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thank
Janice for posting the SSP resolution, Janice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Not meaning to be critical but facilitators
is not really the word I would use in describing the roles of
the SSPs. To facilitate in this content implied that the SSPs
has some control in conveying the communication, vision and
guiding information. Instead I would use assistance or to
assist which mean that the DB person has full control of the
information. I think this kind of thinking would aligned with
the NFB thinking <span style="color:#1F497D">of being
self-independent.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">See the difference?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Randy<o:p></o:p></p>
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style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">
nfb-db [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:nfb-db-bounces@nfbnet.org">mailto:nfb-db-bounces@nfbnet.org</a>] <b>On Behalf
Of </b>Janice Toothman<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 11, 2013 6:54 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> NFB Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List; Burnell
Brown; Arlene Naulty; Joe Naulty;
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:janice.toothman@verizon.net">janice.toothman@verizon.net</a>; Matthew Pettit; Marcus
Simmons; Tracie Inman; Cathy Miller<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [nfb-db] NFBMD 2013-04 SSP resolution<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"> Hi
Everyone,<br>
I will paste the Maryland State SSP Resolution for 2013 as
Passed Below:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Regarding
the creation of a statewide Support Service Providers Program
for deaf-blind people<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">WHEREAS,
Deaf-blind people rely on Support Service Providers (SSPs) to
facilitate communications, and to provide environmental and
situational information so that they can participate in all
aspects of community life, thereby reducing reliance on family
members and friends for these tasks; and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">WHEREAS,
the SSPs are not responsible for providing personal care or
serving as interpreters as required by law at legal and
medical appointments, i.e., SSPs must serve only as
facilitators, not decision makers; and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">WHEREAS,
Maryland currently has a few regional programs that supply
SSPs to deaf-blind residents who live in certain designated
localities, leaving many deaf-blind individuals with no
assistance; and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">WHEREAS,
these regional programs vary in the quality and extent of
services available; and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">WHEREAS,
the purpose of the Maryland Department of Disabilities is to
coordinate services and to <span lang="EN">advance the rights
and interests of people with disabilities so they may fully
participate in their communities; and</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
lang="EN">WHEREAS, the Maryland Department of Disabilities
is the right agency in Maryland state government to create a
statewide </span>Support Service Providers Program; and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">WHEREAS,
service programs are most successful when the consumers who
use the service play an integral part in the planning and
development of the program: NOW, THEREFORE,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">BE
IT RESOLVED, by the National Federation of the Blind of
Maryland, in Convention assembled this tenth day of November,
2013, in the city of Ocean City, Maryland, that this
organization strongly urge the Maryland State Department of
Disabilities to create a plan with input from stakeholders
that leads to the enactment of a statewide Support Service
Providers Program so that all deaf-blind Maryland citizens may
fully participate in all aspects of community life; and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">BE
IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization strongly encourage
the Maryland Department of Disabilities to immediately begin
planning for this program so that it can be included in the
Governor’s 2016 budget. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal">Sincerely,<br>
Janice<br>
Secretary<br>
Deaf-Blind Division/NFB <o:p></o:p></p>
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