Join Your Family Care Council

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We need members ASAP or risk losing all funding and the Family Care Council being closed across the state of Florida!

Is your family on the Medicaid Waiver or Waitlist with APD? If so please join the Family Care Council. We are in need of new members ASAP! The

mission of the Family Care Council Florida is to advocate, educate, and empower individuals with developmental disabilities and their families, partnering with the Agency, to bring quality services to individuals for dignity and choice You can find more information on the Family Care Council here http://www.fccflorida.org/

You can find your local contact by clicking on the map for your area on the FCC website.Please contact your area below to get an application immediately.Area 9 Palm BeachJean Malacko, nyobzoo@...

Pappas, veropappas@...Area 10 BrowardJean Sherman

201 W. Broward Blvd., Ste 305

Ft Lauderdale, FL  33301

, Fax:

jsherman@... Area 11 Dade and Monroe M. Barbara,

Chairperson, rosamariafcc@...Darren ,

Co-Chairperson, darrengregoryfcc@...

PLEASE apply to help this is really truly our future in Florida for being at the table when decisions are made from the families and consumers point of view. The funding that the FCC's get is what supports

families to have a voice at the table. We can send people to conferences to learn more about their rights and the available supports along with being at the discussions about cutting funds or needed funds so the decision makers get a real sense of what is needed. YOUR ROLE, some of you can appear at meeting via phone as spider phone conference is available to all councils, some can have silent rols to help in the background or be at the table and get help with travel to the meetings if you live a distance from where you live. You will have a say at how the tax dollars are spent, if not anything can happen. If families are not at the table you all know we will fade from the budget... our kids will be back in stone ages again and livig without community contact...WE WILL DIE, this needs to be set and solid for when we are gone. We need strong Family Care Councils to carry on, please help me get the entire state up and active..