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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Also, if you have a friend or relative whose representative is on that list, please let us know so we can ask them to help advocate
for this very important cause.<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Joseph Drenth
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Senior R&D Software Engineer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">JBT Corporation | Automated Systems <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Chalfont, PA 18914, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><a href="mailto:joe.drenth@jbtc.com"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">joe.drenth@jbtc.com</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> P: 215 822 4457<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Emily Gindlesperger [mailto:skewbdobdo@verizon.net]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 25, 2019 1:18 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> nfbp-talk@nfbnet.org; pacapitalchapter@nfbnet.org; keystonechapter@nfbnet.org; nfbp-board@lists.nfbp.org; pabs@nfbnet.org<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Drenth, Joe<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [NFBP-Talk] Call To Action: Keep BBVS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Continuing our call to action, please review the list below. If you are a constituent of one of these PA Representatives, please email Joe Drenth and me Emily
Gindlesperger and let us know. We need your help.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Again, if your representative is listed please email Joe Drenth joe.drenth@jbtc.com and me Emily Gindlesperger skewbdobdo@verizon.net and let us know! We need
you!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Emily Gindlesperger <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Drenth, Joe via NFBP-Talk <nfbp-talk@nfbnet.org><br>
To: 'nfbp-talk@nfbnet.org' <nfbp-talk@nfbnet.org>; NFB of Pennsylvania Capital Chapter List (pacapitalchapter@nfbnet.org) <pacapitalchapter@nfbnet.org>; Keystone Chapter List of the NFB of PA (keystonechapter@nfbnet.org) <keystonechapter@nfbnet.org>; 'nfbp-board@lists.nfbp.org'
<nfbp-board@lists.nfbp.org>; pabs@nfbnet.org <pabs@nfbnet.org><br>
Cc: Drenth, Joe <Joe.Drenth@JBTC.COM><br>
Sent: Wed, Apr 24, 2019 1:13 pm<br>
Subject: [NFBP-Talk] Call To Action: Keep BBVS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">*** EMERGENCY ***
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Pennsylvania Secretary of Labor and Industry is considering closing the Bureau of Blindness and Visual Services (BBVS). He is trying to justify it as a cost-savings
measure, but he has not provided any financial proof. He is also ignoring studies that show the tremendous harm that such an action would have on the blind and visually-impaired citizens of Pennsylvania. He needs to stop considering this as a viable option.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">*** CALL TO ACTION ***
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">We need your help to protect blindness-related services in Pennsylvania. Please share the important message “Keep BBVS” with your state legislators and the Governor’s
office. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Below are talking points you can use when you call or meet with your Pennsylvania representatives and senators. They are also attached as a flyer you can hand out
to concerned neighbors, friends, and any others who could help.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h2><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Department of Labor and Industry's Office of Vocational Rehabilitation should abandon consideration of any plan to
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<h2><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">ELIMINATE the Bureau of Blindness and Visual Services.<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<h3><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">1. Research shows that consolidation of blindness rehabilitation services into general rehabilitation services hurts blind clients.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">BBVS has historically been its own Bureau because of the recognition that services to blind and visually-impaired individuals need to be
highly specialized. Studies performed by Mississippi State University’s National Research and Training Center on Blindness and Low Vision found that combining blindness-related vocational rehabilitation services with general disability VR services negatively
affect the rehabilitation outcomes of blind and visually-impaired individuals and reduces the average income of those who do achieve employment.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h3><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">2. Projected cost savings is minimal; likely harm to blind clients is great.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Closing BBVS would not save much money compared to the harm it would do, and OVR has not presented any fiscal justification for this action.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h3><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">3. BBVS provides specialized rehabilitation services distinct from the rest of OVR.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Eliminating BBVS would negatively impact social services for blind children, students, adults, and seniors, since BBVS offers critical
opportunities for assistance, training, employment and independent living for which there are no counterparts in the general disability vocational rehabilitation program.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h3><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">4. OVR did not seek input from stakeholders regarding this plan.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">This option is being planned within the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation without input from the State Board of Vocational Rehabilitation,
the Advisory Committee for the Blind of Pennsylvania, the Governor's office, or the blindness community.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h2><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Please contact your state legislators and the following offices to share your concerns about the proposal to eliminate BBVS. Also, please share phone calls made and copy all emails to
</span><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">KeepBBVS@nfbp.org.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<h3><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Email: govcorrespcrm@pa.gov </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h3><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry Secretary Jerry Oleksiak<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Cell phone: (717) 265-5765</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Email: wgoleksiak@pa.gov</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h3><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Acting Executive Director of the PA Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Ryan Hyde<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Central Office phone: (717) 787-5244
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Email:
<span style="background:white">rhyde@pa.gov</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">To find the names and contact information for your Pennsylvania General Assembly Representatives and Senators, visit the following web page and enter your mailing
address:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/findyourlegislator/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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