Re: [GA-ChildrensNetwork] New Nat'l End Waiting Lists Organization

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> Subject: New National Listserv to End Waiting Lists for Adult Services

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> Please copy and send this message to all listservs, acquaintances,

> professionals, local and national and sister

> organizations and other sources you may have. For example, all the DD

> Councils, the P & A national and state

> organizations, the appropriate persons at the National Arc, other state

> and local ARC's, national Autism and CP, other

> professional organizations, governmental officials, school officials,

> etc. We need a great deal of national

> involvement if anything is going to get done. Please - anyone you can

> think of - that is how this movement might

> possibly be successful - by letting just everyone know and getting them

> involved.

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> NOEWAIT - The National Organization to End the Waitlist through Advocacy,

> Information and Transformation

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> Dedicated to ending national waitlists for services for adults with

> Developmental Disabilities through ADVOCACY within

> the political system, the sharing of INFORMATION from all sources, and

> the TRANSFORMATION of the laws, leading to all

> individuals with Developmental Disabilities receiving appropriate

> services of their choice within the community.

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> Waitlists for services for adults with developmental disabilities are a

> national disgrace. Some states have over

> 100,000 individuals with extreme needs waiting for services. Yet,

> individuals in each state are fighting for services

> on a person-by-person, county-by-county and state-by-state basis. There

> seems to be no national awareness nor

> coordination, yet this is truly a national issue.

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> The moderator, Denver C. Fox, Ed.D., is a parent of two adult children

> with profound disabilities. He is the moderator

> of the Colorado listserv, Parents of Adults with Disabilities.

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> Dr. Fox has been very active in the Colorado attempt to reduce the

> waitlists for about 7,000 adults with developmental

> disabilities in the Colorado system.

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> This listserv is open to all parents, friends, individuals with

> disabilities, professionals, politicians, governmental

> employees and others, and is designed to gather information about the

> extent of the waitlist in each state, to find out

> what attempts are being made to solve that problem within each state, and

> to develop a national agenda regarding

> ending the disgraceful waitlists.

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> Please contact _DnvrFox@..._ (mailto:DnvrFox@...) to join this

> listserv

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> PLEASE COPY, PASTE AND PASS THIS ON!

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> http://members.aol.com/dnvrfox

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