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MiCASSA EVENT VIA TELECONFERENCE
May 2003MiCASSA EVENT Details, Email Stephanie Thomas
COME JOIN US MiCASSA EVENT VIA TELECONFERENCE AS the House and Senate Join Forces Behind Real Choice and MiCASSA! HR 2032 and S 971.
June 5th at 12:45 eastern time 11:45 am central, 10:45 am mountain, 9:45 am pacific
The MiCASSA Kickoff and NCIL Rally events will be held simultaneously at the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 106 in Washington, DC and in 50 cities across the nation.
The NCIL Rally/MiCASSA Kickoff Event will include:
Comments from the lead MiCASSA sponsors Senators Tom Harkin and Arlen Specter, and Representatives Danny Davis and John Shimkus and other legislators supportive of our issues.
H.R. 2032 and S. 971, the Medicaid Community Attendant Services and Supports Act, MiCASSA, are federal bills that would allow people with disabilities who need long term services and supports to have the Real Choice of getting these services in their own homes and communities instead of nursing homes, state schools and other institutions.
If you support Real Choice in long term care.
If you support the right to community services instead of being forced into institution.
If you support our homes not nursing homes or institutions..
Join us and let's reform the system together!
Find an accessible space to call from that is available for at least an hour during the time of the event.
Have a group of at least 20 people (we have limited hookups and we want to let as many people as possible take part),
Invite other folks from your area to join you for the call (aging, developmental disability, independent living, metal health, etc.)
Have a speakerphone so everyone can here (interpreter if needed)
Contact Topeka Independent Living Resource Center's Jeannine Eklund 785/233-4572 or Email Jeannine and let her know you want to be a telephone hook up site for the MiCASSA event and how many people will be at your site. To help underwrite the cost of the teleconference, we are asking $25 per site to be connected to the event. Please make the check payable to TILRC teleconference, 501 SW Jackson, Topeka, KS 66603.
Deadline to register for the call is May 30, 2003, and since the number of phone lines is limited, the sooner you contact Jeannine, the better!
When you make your reservation to be part of the telephone event, you will get instructions on how the system will work, and we will contact you with a call in number and ID code.
ADAPT is organizing the Free Our People March, September 4-17, go to the Free Our People website. Join the last leg of the March and/or participate in the largest Rally in disability rights history on September 17th.
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