A National Conversation on the State of the States' Budgets

Third Teleconference Call:

    State budgets as they stand today and where they are taking us:

    What cuts are we facing today? 

    What will be their impact?

    People fighting over dollar sign

    Date: May 4, 2009

    Time: 3 pm Eastern Time

    Presenters: 

    State Directors

    Steve Hall, Georgia

    Mary Lee Fay, Oregon

    Max Chmura, New York

    Self-Advocates

    Chester Finn, New Yor

    Michael Rogers, Washington

    Rebecca Cokley, Washington, DC

    Topics:

    What is our common ground?

    (a) What are the values we share? 

    (b) How can we work together with our core principles?.

    What can self-advocates do?

      (a) Is there a willingness to help self-advocates develop peer connections to help each other?

    (b) Can self-advocates help each other through peer connections?

    (c) Any other solutions?

    What can state directors do?

    (a) Can self-advocates be included in the decision-making process?

        (b) Can the money available to them be used differently?

        What can we do together?

        (a) To be determined

         

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