[Nfbf-l] vision summit

[Jean Selzer]

Hello Denise,


Just wanted to say thank you for all your hard work and too the team who helped to make this years vision summit a success.  I am sorry that I was not able to attend this year but I will be up in Tallahassee for TD-Day.


Jean Cerullo




-----Original Message-----
From: Denise Valkema <valkemadenise at aol.com>
To: NFBF <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tue, Feb 18, 2014 1:12 pm
Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] vision summit


I traveled by bus Tueaday, 2/11/14 at 7:05pm and arrived in Tallahassee at 
5:05am and attended the Florida Rehab Council meeting all day Wednesday, 2/12/14 
with Eric, Jacksonville, and part of afternoon with Latoya, Jacksonville. 

At 7:00am on Thursday Eric, Latoya, and I met in lobby of hotel with council 
members to shuttle to capital for summit. We met up with members of the 
Tallahassee chapter (Johnnie, Sylvia, Donald) under the organization and 
leadership of President Johnnie Slaton covered the NFB resource table. Many were 
wearing the champions of freedom T-shirt.  Tinetta,  NFBF Tallahassee, helped 
with registration. A continental breakfast was served and we mingled before 
summit meeting started. After the summit some had an appointment in  a 
Congressman's office.

In summary, Representative Baxley mentioned that he is looking for a current 
bill to add additional support for white cane law. Mr. Doyle mentioned the three 
fold chord cannot easily be broken-client, counselor, network; legislative, 
executive, judicial; respect, trust, transparency.
Paul Edwards, FCB President, talked about three crisis of state population 
growing and not enough funding for older population to receive services, driver 
received no blame for violating white cane law after hitting a member in 
Tallahassee, and unemployment rate of blind is still at 70% and discriminations 
till exists. I shared facts from our fact sheets on employment, accessibility 
including myflorida site, and transportation. These were handouts on each table. 
I mentioned we are a resource, scholarships available, and thankful for 
continuing to have Newsline in Florida. I mentioned that we are grateful to be 
working to find possible solutions to these challenges instead of crisis. We had 
round table discussion on how we could solve issues in these three areas. A 
summary from each table was presented to all and will be in a report from FAASB.

I took a bus at 1:30pm and returned home after 12:30am on 2/14/14.

Thanks to all that helped NFBF have a voice, participation, and greater presence 
at the 2014 vision summit! Yeah Florida!

Sincerely, Denise Valkema by iPhone 
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