[NFBMT] Billings Gazette Letter to the Editor

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I can write a letter email to him for request of saving all programs 
for us so we can get accomplished what we wish to do in training.
I don't know his email address.
Steve Bullock.
Thanks,

Original message:
> Blind Montanans on 2-year wait list



> Nov 7, 2017



> Montana's Department of Vocational Rehabilitation and Blind Services is in
> crisis. Since March, 2017, no new services have been offered due to budget
> constraints. Clients with open cases are still receiving services, but new
> clients are put on a two-year waiting list in the hopes that when a category
> for which they are eligible for services opens up, they will be first to
> receive them. In the meantime, they must put their educational and vocational
> plans on hold. The National Federation of the Blind of Montana thinks this is
> unreasonable.



> Efforts are already underway to roll back decades of hard-won and vital
> programs and services for blind Montanans. If Blind and Low Vision Services
> is consolidated into general disability services in the name of balancing the
> budget, this would effectively eliminate our ability to procure the targeted
> and specialized services we need in order to be successful in achieving our
> educational and vocational goals. Moreover, merging the blind and general
> disability programs violates Montana state law, which calls for stand-alone
> services for the blind. We cannot afford to lose the autonomy of our only
> service option within a one-size-fits-all service delivery system.



> The National Federation of the Blind of Montana strongly urges Gov. Steve
> Bullock and our state legislators to hold a special session to find other
> ways to balance the budget that do no harm to the blind, elderly, and
> disabled, and to maintain and preserve the autonomy and the quality of
> services for the blind of Montana, so that we can continue to be
> contributing, tax-paying citizens of our state and nation, and live the lives
> we want.



> Joy Breslauer, president,

> National Federation of the Blind of Montana

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