[Nfb-seniors] NFBN Senior division May Meeting - To find and help the blind who live in care facilities - Visitors Welcome

[Robert Leslie Newman]

Hi You All 

RE: Our meeting for May is Monday the 13th; two Monday's away

Non-members are welcome

 

Topic as stated in the subject line- To find and help the blind who live in
care facilities  

 

Contents of this message:

*When and how to get on the call

*Agenda 

*The NFB Pledge 

* Secretary's and Treasurer's reports; coming, and will be read at the
meeting

 

*#1 When and How to Get On the Call:

Date: May 13th

Time: 5:00 Pacific; 6:00 Mountain; 7:00 Central; 8:00 Eastern 

Phone: 1-712-451-0011

Access Code: 345154Pound

 

*#2 Agenda:

-First- Come to order, introductions, say our NFB pledge

 

-Second- Special Guest: Recall, at our 2018 state convention, we made a
pledge to contact local care facilities for seniors, to share our knowledge
with those seniors who may live there and are experiencing blindness;
including relevant staff. To find our speaker, I went to the webpage for
the, Activity Professional's Association of Omaha (APAOmaha). Here is their
mission statement: Activity is the basis of life. Therefore, any program for
the elderly or disabled should simulate and reflect life. Activity programs
for the elderly or disabled should include some provisions for basic human
needs common to all people: spiritual, mental, emotional, social and
physical. Therefore, the Activity Professional's Association of Omaha will
aim to stimulate each individual to attain his/her highest level of
competency and function in each of these areas. 

 

I spoke with Vicki Andress, Treasurer of APAOmaha, and either she or her
assistant, Ann, will join us on our call. Put on your thinking caps, we need
to ask the right questions to know what Vicki and her staff are facing. And,
we need to give the right kind of supportive information and/or suggestions.
All to help these very important professionals to carry out their mission of
making the activities, lives' of their blind and visually impaired residents
to simulate and reflect life. We in the National Federation of the Blind
know the negatives that blindness can bring. More importantly, we know how
to work the human potential to live and not allow any level of blindness
keep us from living the life you want.

 

Third- Secretary & Treasurers Reports Will be given

 

--OLD BUSINESS: 

-Membership- do make calls to past members who have not joined us during
recent meetings. And/or think of someone new to call and invite to join us
for this or next month's meeting.

-legislative Update; the latest news on the funding for blind senior
Nebraskans. 

-Update on the recent (May 6-7-8) "Living the full Life," senior conference
put on by the Commission for the Blind (NCBVI). 

-Any other old business you may bring

 

--NEW BUSINESS:

-Reminder of, and discussion of the 2019 NFB state convention 

-Anything you may bring 

 

*-Finally- Brags & Drags

 

*Our NFB Pledge: 

I pledge to participate actively in the efforts of the National Federation
of the Blind to achieve equality, opportunity, and security for the blind;
to support the policies and programs of the Federation; and to abide by its
constitution.

 

Respectfully yours,

Robert Leslie Newman

NFBN Senior Division, President