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Showing posts with label VOR. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Advocacy done right: Irene Tanzman on VOR's 2024 Legislative Initiative

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Irene Tanzman is the mother of a son with severe autism from Massachusetts: " In this video, I describe the experience of the 2024 VOR...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

What's old is new again: Regulating community services for people with disabilities: a promise fulfilled or a barrier to appropriate services?

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This is a post from The DD News Blog for August 12, 2018. Not much has changed since then, with the exception of a worldwide pandemic that k...
Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Myths and Facts about Vocational Work Centers

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The Raise the Wage Act of 2021 would increase the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour, a move supported by a majority of Americans. However...
Tuesday, June 15, 2021

VOR opposes part of the Raise the Wage Act that would eliminate work opportunities for the most severely disabled

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Legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $15/hour was initially part of The American Rescue Plan, a huge piece of legislation that w...
Friday, May 28, 2021

Message from VOR to Congress: "Build Back Better", but don't ignore the needs of our family members with the most severe intellectual and developmental disabilities

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VOR (a Voice Of Reason) held its annual Legislative Initiative last week, not in-person in Washington, D.C. as it is usually done, but virt...
Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Comments on the proposed Home and Community Based Services Access Act of 2021

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The Home and Community Based Services Access Act of 2021 ( HCBS Access Act ) has been drafted for the purpose of seeking comments on various...
Saturday, September 26, 2020

VOR Remembers Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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The following is a tribute from VOR , a Voice Of Reason, to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died last week at the age of eight...
Wednesday, October 16, 2019

VOR opposes legislation that will lead to the closure of employment programs for severely disabled

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VOR (a Voice Of Reason) “is a national organization that advocates for high quality care and human rights for people with intellectual an...
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Saturday, March 2, 2019

Words Matter: The Language of Disability

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The article below is from the November 9, 2018 VOR Weekly News Update by VOR’s Executive Director Hugo Dwyer. VOR , a “Voice Of Reason”, ...
Saturday, December 22, 2018

Tom Dwyer's message to the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities

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Hugo Dwyer is the Executive Director of VOR , a "Voice Of Reason speaking out  for people with intellectual and developmental disab...
Thursday, December 6, 2018

VOR, "a Voice Of Reason", comments on a National Council on Disability report on guardianship, Part 2

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The National Council on Disability ( NCD ) Report, " Beyond Guardianship: Toward Alternatives  That Promote Greater Self-Determinati...