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- HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!
- WE NEED YOUR DIRECT SUPPORT WORKER PROFILES AND PHOTOGRAPHS
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!
The Board and Staff of NYSACRA would like to wish our members & friends
a happy and safe Holiday Season.
We look forward to a very productive 2005, with new ideas and strategies to further improve the lives of people with disabilities and their families.
A special thanks to everyone who has participated in a NYSACRA meeting, committee or event over the past year. We appreciate and highly value your contribution and look forward to serving you in the New Year!
WE NEED YOUR DIRECT SUPPORT WORKER PROFILES AND PHOTOGRAPHS
With legislators returning to Albany in force after the Holidays, NYSACRA is ready to implement this year’s Direct Support Profile Education Campaign directed toward Legislators, Governor Pataki and New York’s Congressional representatives. For the fifth year in a row, we want to share the stories of direct support professionals and the major influence they have on the lives of people with developmental disabilities. If you have direct support professionals, agency administrators, parents or consumers who want to share their views on the hard work, complex job and dedication, while making wages that are not commensurate with that responsibility, please share them with us! Our previous Profile Campaigns have been extremely successful. We want to make this year’s effort as simple as possible for you. Please Fax, E-Mail or send all letters or stories to NYSACRA so that we can compile them for distribution to the Legislature and Governor during the legislative session. Accompanying every testimonial, we will include a photograph of the Direct Support Professional. This puts a face to the story and is very important to getting our message across. If you already have pictures or are able to take new pictures (with the permission to print them) please forward them to NYSACRA. Or, if you wish, you can call Joe Macbeth, Director of Member Services, at (518) 449-7551 and he will take your testimonial over the telephone and work with you to secure a photograph. Let’s get Started!
In addition, Help Us Reach Our Goal of One Million Signatures. Nationwide, more than 23,000 have signed ANCOR’s state petitions—Have You? Add your name to the state petition by going to www.supportnac.org. Encourage others to do the same! Also, visit NYSACRA’s Action & Education Center to urge your Congressperson to sign on to H.R. 5197, at www.nysacra.org. |
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