What are you and other state directors doing to respond to the cuts? 

To make them fair?

To keep things from going backward?

To keep people informed?

Date:  April 6, 2009
Time:  3 pm Eastern Time

 

Presenters:  Self-Advocates

Chester Finn, New York

Michael Rogers, Washington

Rebecca Cokley, Washington, DC

Topics:

How will budget cuts affect us?

(a) What is really going on?

(b) How does it affect self-advocates in their day-to-day lives?

Can we stop the cuts?

 (a) In your state, what are self-advocates doing to stop budget cuts?

(b) Is it working?

What are we going to do about it?

  (a) What can self-advocates do to help one another?

(b) How can self-advocates partner with their State Directors, providers and families to reduce the effects of the budget cuts in their lives?

(c) What can self-advocates do nationally?