[nfbmi-talk] test mcb tac

joe harcz Comcast joeharcz at comcast.net
Tue Jun 22 17:58:53 UTC 2010


June 22, 2010

 

From: Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

E-mail: joeharcz at comcast.net

 

Re: SRC Training Series Training Module

 

To Members Michigan Commission for the Blind board

And to Patrick D. cannon, Director Michigan Commission for the Blind Via E-mail

 

All,

 

Since there has been some confusion about the roles and responsibilities of the Michigan Commission for the Blind Board I have attached a training module for State Rehabilitation Council’s which have similar obligations, roles, and responsibilities under the Rehabilitation Act as does our commission. I offer this as free technical assistance that should be well heeded especially given the fact that the MCB Board had an extraordinary  mostly closed session on May 3, 2010 to discuss among other things the actual role and responsibilities of the board. Moreover, from the public record it appears that Director Cannon has some issues with the “policy making” role, the information requirements to commissioners, and indeed the general public let alone RSA in these regards. And it also appears from comments made by Lehman Jones at the most recent meeting of MCB that he seems to think the Commission Board is purely “advisory”. Those were very strange comments indeed from the effective head of the Designated State Agency made to National Federation of the Blind of Michigan President Larry Posont.

 

But, as the saying goes, “Actions speak louder than words.”

 

Please feel free to use this training module as it, indeed is available to the public unlike the activities and critical documents of MCB including its RSA monitoring and other activities.

 

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

 

Cc: Craig McManus, RSA

Cc: Lynnae Ruttledge, Commissioner RSA

Cc: Barbara Schmidt, Michigan Attorney General’s Office

Cc: Larry Posont National Federation of the Blind MI

Cc: Joe Sibley, Michigan Council of the Blind and Visually Impaired

Cc: Richard Clay, Advocates for the Blind

Cc: To mm Masseau, Chair Michigan SILC, M PAS

Cc: Michigan ADAPT

Cc: Members Michigan Rehabilitation Council

 

 

 

 

 

 

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SRC Training Series

 

The SRC Training Series is intended for self-directed use by individual SRC members, but can also be used in conjunction with SRC meetings or training sessions

to augment presentations, videos, and group discussions. To address the learning needs of rotating SRC members, the Training Series will serve as a mechanism

for ongoing training. The development of the Series will be accomplished in three distinct "phases".

 

Series One: Overview and Philosophy

 

Modification of existing SRC training modules for online self-directed use:

List of 4 items

• History of V.R.

• Overview of the Rehabilitation Act

• V.R. principles & policies

• The role of the SRC

list end

 

Series Two: State Plan

 

Development of new training module(s) relating to the State Plan:

List of 3 items

• The Statutory Basis of the State Plan

• Purpose of the State Plan

• Development of the State Plan

list end

 

Series Three: Operationalizing the State Plan

 

Creation of new training modules:

List of 4 items

• Assessment

• Development of VR Goals

• Program Evaluation and Reporting

• SRC Infrastructure

list end

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