[NFBMI-Talk] NFB Advocacy Alley Saturday Nights

[Robert Earl Parsons]

My Apologies Friends,

In my hurry, I forgot to inform you that Advocacy Alley will take place at 8pm this evening. We look forward to having blind students, blind parents and parents of blind students on with us for these fruitful discussions.

With Love,

Robert
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Good Afternoon Federation Family,



I hope that you are all doing well. It has been a wonderful, action-filled past two weeks full of advocacy and travel for the National Federation of the Blind of Michigan and I must commend the members of our different chapters and divisions for making the most of their summer so far!

On the heels of an invigorating trip to Houston and our national convention, our state board and At Large chapter recognizes the wonderful and excited enthusiasm that the students and attendees at the NFB REAL program showed from June 23-25 in Flint. Their efforts to not only attend the program in its entirety, but continuing to follow up with our state affiliate board while at convention has been a testament that student voices are an important part of our affiliate and their advocacy has been pivotal to our organization's progress. Our national president himself, Mark Riccobono, began as a student division member advocating for the needs of blind students within the Wisconsin affiliate.

For this reason, I'm excited to inform our affiliate that beginning this evening, July 22, the NFB of Michigan will begin hosting "Advocacy Alley," a virtual soundboard for blind students and those interested in becoming a student. Advocacy Alley is an informal virtual session between these students and the state president where they can be free to ask questions, receive feedback and share challenges they are facing on a variety of topics with fellow students and the group. The session will be secured and protected. This week's topic for Advocacy Alley will be "Rehabilitation Faux
Pas: Do's and Don'ts with Your Counselor."

If you are a student, a parent of a blind student, or a blind parent interested in having this conversation, please join us in Advocacy Alley, right on the corner of At Large and Michigan. Tell the doorman that Robert sent you and the password is "Chocolate Cherry." We can't wait to chat with you and hope to have a great turnout.



Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/9612695221?pwd=dHlxZDNwcVVZbUVTYUM5cEU4cDlndz09



Respectfully,



Robert Parsons, Jr., M. A., CRC, CVRT, LLPC

President, National Federation of the Blind of Michigan



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