[Nfb-or] ocb

[don nepple]

hi is the hed of ocb verry frendly too the nfbo i know here thanks frum idaho.
 
> From: tamara.8024 at comcast.net
> To: nfb-or at nfbnet.org
> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:57:23 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-or] ocb
> 
> Jay,
> 
> I am very glad to hear that they are serving you well and giving you support
> in attaining your vocational goals. What has made me feel frantic about my
> own situation is seeing some of the deeply ingrained attitudes and behaviors
> that I know have to be affecting others, and I have been unable to do much
> at all about anything until recently. I recently received a new VR
> counselor because my former counselor retired; hwoever, I am getting the
> same utter lack of professionalism and responsiveness from him as I was
> before. The problem, in my case, goes over his head, so I cannot expect to
> get the tools I need to get back t omy vocation any time soon.
> 
> I wish you the best in your efforts and future!
> 
> Tami Smith-Kinney
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-or-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-or-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Johnston
> Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 12:06 PM
> To: NFB of Oregon mailing list
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-or] ocb
> 
> Hello Tami,
> It is disappointing to hear that you have experienced a decline in your 
> services at OCB. This experience is not universal. The Commission is 
> providing me with better support in attaining my vocational goals than ever 
> before. The instructors are at least as friendly and proficient as those in
> 
> the past, and my counselor has provided unflagging support- even during and 
> after the closure scare.
> 
> You write that the agency is in need of broad housekeeping. This may be 
> true- I am not familiar with the Commission's inner workings- but from one 
> client's perspective, the Commission always seems to be striving for 
> self-improvement and the achievement of its clients.
> 
> I wish you luck in your VR efforts. Perhaps requesting the assignment of a 
> different counselor would make a difference.
> 
> Best,
> Jay Johnston
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tamara Smith-Kinney" <tamara.8024 at comcast.net>
> To: "'NFB of Oregon mailing list'" <nfb-or at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 11:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-or] ocb
> 
> 
> > Joseph and all,
> >
> > They may have their budget approval, but they don't seem to be providing
> > services or behaving with any sort of responsibility. We may need the
> > agency, but it needs to be restructured from the top down, by which I mean
> > the top couple of layers of directors and a good portion of the staff 
> > simply
> > need to go so that they can be replaced by people who get that the 
> > function
> > of the agency is to keep people working or get them back to work and who
> > grasp the philosophy of VR in general. You know, things like "informed
> > choice," "mitigating barriers to employment" and so forth. It's not about
> > giving us poor, pathetic blind people confidence. It's about providing us
> > with the tools we need to continue in our vocations so that we can pay 
> > taxes
> > to fund their services, ensuring that we can choose to earn our way in the
> > world instead of being a drain on Social Security, that we can use our 
> > minds
> > and talents to benefit our employers and those around us. And that we can
> > add to the economy by having money to spend to create the demand that
> > creates more jobs elsewhere.
> >
> > Not that I have an opinion. /smile/
> >
> > Tami Smith-Kinney
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nfb-or-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-or-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> > Behalf
> > Of T. Joseph Carter
> > Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 6:25 PM
> > To: NFB of Oregon mailing list
> > Subject: Re: [Nfb-or] ocb
> >
> > Don,
> >
> > There's not much to tell. They've gotten their budget approval. Who
> > knows what is going to happen as a result of the audit, if anything.
> > I'll see what I can find out this week.
> >
> > Joseph
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 01:34:19AM -0500, don nepple wrote:
> >>
> >>hello just is going on with ocb have not herd much about that please let 
> >>me
> > know allso do you all paula achter and is ron knepper in valeved. sory
> > about the emails but i got that fixt.thanks for the help.have a good 
> > week.by
> > ffrum idaho.
> >
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