[Nfbf-l] light house of the palm beachs
craig kiser
sckiser55 at earthlink.net
Thu Apr 7 23:45:12 UTC 2011
According to Director Hildreth, DBS has not sustained any
significant budget cuts. They are operating on the same budget
they had 2 years ago. She told the board of the Blind Services
Foundation in January that they have not had their budget cut and
both the Governer and the Senate are recommending no cut this
year. The House is recommending an $800,000 cut, but she
believes the Governer and Senate will prevail. This being said,
I agree that DBS is reluctant to send clients out of state.
Clients wanting to go to Louisiana will have to fight hard, but
we have always had to fight hard for our rights. The NFB has
always been in there fighting along with us. The NFBF needs to
join the fight again if clients are to get their right to attend
NFB Centers.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathy Davis" <kdavisnfbf at cfl.rr.com
To: "'NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List'" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 19:13:49 -0400
Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] light house of the palm beachs
Hi Everyone,
I thought I would weigh in on this one since I spent almost a
year in Rustin
Louisiana in 2009. DBS is much more reluctant to send students
to one of the
NFB Centers than was once the case.
The NFB centers are very expensive if you are not a resident of
either
Louisiana or Colorado. The position DBS is taking today is if
the client is
determined to go to one of our centers that client must pay the
extra out of
state monthly expense which is quite sizable. DBS will likely
only pay for
the same amount necessary for blind people to go to the local
rehab center
here in Daytona Beach.
I wouldn't take anything for having gone to Rustin to attend the
Louisiana
Center. I did things I never dreamed I could do and all of this
did wonders
for my self-confidence in traveling with the long white cane and
not to
mention working with all sorts of power tools plus shopping for
and
preparing a meal for 40. We did far more than that and I suggest
the you
google Louisiana Center for the Blind Rustin.
I just think that those of you who are wanting to go to a NFB
center, the
road will be extremely rough. DBS has already sustained a major
budget cut
and this cut-back in funds has a major effect on the various
lighthouses
around Florida.
If you can make it happen - going to one of our centers, I wish
you every
success.
Kathy Davis
and the
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:nfbf-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Sherri
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 2:38 PM
To: NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] light house of the palm beachs
What David is trying to say is that through DBS, you have the
choice to
attend whatever training center you wish to attend, be it
Daytona, Colorado
or Ruston or any other one for that matter. You have to justify
why you want
to go to a particular center, but you need to be aware and make
the choice
that is best for you.
Sherri
----- Original Message -----
From: "RJ Sandefur" <joltingjacksandefur at gmail.com
To: "NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] light house of the palm beachs
I thought the scalarships were only for those persons going to
school. Is
this true? RJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Evans" <drevans at bellsouth.net
To: "NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] light house of the palm beachs
Dear R.J.,
If you are in it for half a loaf, why not a whole loaf?
Have you considered going away to Daytona, Ruston or even
Colorado for
your training?
It is your life, so why not get the best training you can.
DBS can send you out of state for this training.
Under the Freedom of Choice provisions of the Rehab Act, you
have the
right to choose where you want to go for that training.
It is true that DBS can send you, but they only have to pay what
it cost
to send you to their own training center in Daytona and you
could be on
the hook for the rest, but they can also pick it all up and pay
for it
too.
Kathy Davis when there a couple of years ago and you could ask
her for
her input about it. Rehab training is just like Post Secondary
Education
and training. If a student wants to go to college and
specialize in a
subject or career, they want the best training possible, Right?
If you wanted to be a lawyer you might want to go to a school
that
specializes in the kind of Law you want to practice, such as at
Princeton, Yale, Harvard or Stanford. If you wanted to be an
engineer,
you might go to M.I.T., Georgia Tech, Michigan or U.C.L.A.
This is why picking a place that has the best training you can
get is
important as it will determine the course of the rest of your
life.
I learned, in training for the Olympics that if you want to be
the best
at what you do, then you need to run with the best and do what
they do.
If you do that there will come a point when you will be the
best.
I hope that you can come to the NfB National Convention in
Orlando and
see it for yourself. You will be able to talk to many people
who have
attended NFB training Centers and get some first hand knowledge
from
them.
Ask your DBS counselor for some help in attending the
Convention. They
have sent students to the conventions before.
You still even have a couple of days to do an application for a
scholarship to attend the convention under the Jernigan
Scholarship
Program which would give you funding to attend. The cut off
date is
April 14.
Get the info at www.nfb.org .
David Evans, NfBF and GD Jack.
"The person we become is determined by 3 things. The
experiences we have
had, the people we have met and the books we have read."--Mark
Twain.,"
----- Original Message -----
From: "RJ Sandefur" <joltingjacksandefur at gmail.com
To: "NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 5:55 AM
Subject: [Nfbf-l] light house of the palm beachs
Any one in the palm beach area, What is your opinion of the
light house
of the palm beaches? My meeting with the Florida division of
blind
services went great, and I am satisfied with my councilor!
However, my
family is soar displeased with me, but this isn't their life, it
is mine
and I felt it was time for me to stop making excuses, and be a
man and
just go ahead and do this for me and not any one else! Robina
brought up
what Steve Luther said about me not being capable of doing
mobility, and
my councilor would hear none of it! She said I was going to be
receiving
independent living training, along with orientation and mobility
I've
heard Steve Matson from the light house is really good. What do
you guys
think of my good news? RJ
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