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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Friends,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We, ‘the disability right advocacy network’, need your transportation stories – the good, bad and the ugly!!! Please respond to the request below:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>The National Council on Consumer Advocacy of the Association of University Centers for Disability has a blog site which focuses on compiling personal stories of challenges within access to public and para-transit for persons who happen to have a disability. I would encourage your folks to add their stories and suggestions for any universal or systematic improvements that could be made to transportation programs!! Below is the link <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><a href="http://adaparatransit.blogspot.com/2012/02/ada-para-transit-universal.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>http://adaparatransit.blogspot.com/2012/02/ada-para-transit-universal.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Thank you and your members for input into this site which does want to look at universal problems and solutions to transportation and para-transit problems!!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Lucida Handwriting";color:#1F497D'>Marybeth N. Vallance, MSW, CSW, ACSW<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Pre-Service Training Coordinator & Social Work Director<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>U.K. Human Development Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>102 Mineral Industries Building<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Lexington, KY 40506-0051<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>859-257-3360<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="Marybeth.vallance@uky.edu">Marybeth.vallance@uky.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://adaparatransit.blogspot.com/2012/02/ada-para-transit-universal.html">http://adaparatransit.blogspot.com/2012/02/ada-para-transit-universal.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please share with others far and wide …<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you for participating in making transportation for people with disabilities better for those who come along behind us, not to mention those of us who haven’t left yet!!!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>John g.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>