[Nfbc-info] An idea from Beach Cities Chapter

[Juliett Cody]

Great! Now that we know we have NFBC board approval and enthusiasm  lets get 
to work. Beach Cities will concentrate next week on setting a conference 
meeting soon, and we can brainstorm and make it a state project. I believe 
we can recruit many new members. I e-mailed Kathleen Church the president of 
the parent with blind children's  chapter   to keep her in the loop.  It 
would be great if President Willows could chime in, and tell us what went on 
in the national level and tell more about the literature.
Juliet Cody
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mary Willows" <mwillows at sbcglobal.net>
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Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfbc-info] An idea from Beach Cities Chapter


> Hi Beach Cities:
> We really want involvement of blind parents with children right now.  The 
> national office is putting together a brochure on this very topic.
>
> I was the committee chairperson of the Concerned Parents Committee when my 
> children were young.  Debby Kent Stein, I believe, is the current 
> Chairperson.  Fred, let's get them connected.  Call the national center 
> and find out who is collecting names of blind parents for short 
> documentary.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Juliett Cody" <julietcody at cox.net>
> To: "NFB of California List" <nfbc-info at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:13 AM
> Subject: [Nfbc-info] An idea from Beach Cities Chapter
>
>
>> Good Morning Federationists,
>>
>> Fred Chambers was contacted this morning by someone looking for blind
>> baby raising advice. The mother and baby are in Oceanside. She is 
>> frustrated at the lack of information available for her. Obviously, the 
>> doctors know nothing about our chapter, blindness organizations, the 
>> truths of blindness, or that we are working on a Parents of Blind 
>> Children chapter  in conjunction with Beach Cities Chapter right here in 
>> North County.
>>
>> I know this is an awareness slap, on the face  telling  all of us to work 
>> harder. Apparently, we are not getting the word out. This mother had 
>> never heard of the NFBC or our  state wide Parents with Blind Children's 
>> Chapter.
>> There is not a doubt that the Beach Cities Chapter immediately started 
>> working on this issue today. We are going to have a conference meeting 
>> before our next chapter meeting (time and date is to be announce). I'm 
>> taking the initiative to invite everyone to join us, in fact I think it 
>> would be wonderful if we could interest every chapter president to call 
>> in. The Beach Cities Chapter believes we should take  this one step 
>> further ( with the NFBC board approval of course), and we could suggest 
>> this as a state-wide effort.
>> Each chapter should cover some doctors in their area, and get literature 
>> from the state office to distribute to them. We probably don't need to 
>> contact every doctor.  but we can brainstorm  at the meeting, and decide 
>> which types of doctors should get which info.
>>
>> What do y'all think?What does the board think?
>> Thanks Juliet Cody and Fred Chambers
>> President and Vice President Beach Cities
>>
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