Hi Cynthia from Bainbridge

Do we need to be muted?

This is Sharon from Disability Connections in San Angelo TX.

Hi Sharon! Please do stay muted unless you are talking it just helps with the accessibility and keeps the recording cleaner

Ok.

Hi,

Gayl Brunk, Executive Director of Valley Associates for Independent Living in Harrisonburg VA

Robert Blumenfeld Alliance of People with disAbilities King County, WA

My name is Ana and I work in Virginia at one of the CILs as a community living specialist

HI from Central Pennsylvania! Kathy Quality Assurance & Compliance Director

Joan Ballou from Appalachian Independence Center, Abingdon, VA

Hi I'm Judy from Suncoast Center for Independent Living in Sarasota. I'm the Peer Mentor Advocate lol

This is Mary, a CIL program manager from Scottsbluff, NE.

This is Patricia from HASL Center for Independent Living in Grants Pass, Oregon

hi tHIS IS mELODY FROM acyl IN dAYTON oh

Hello Everyone. My name is Michael Raye

I am Jill from Hurricane, UT

Will there be a powerpoint presentation that can be emailed to us after the webinar, if we ask for it?

Carrissa Johnson Satilite Manager In Murray KY

Hi Everyone, I'm Amy from Resources for Independent Living in NJ.

good morning everybody, Shawn Latham, IL Coordinator at the Center for independence in Marysville

Josh from Disability Rights and Resources from Birmingham Alabama

Good Afternoon!!! Davina Patterson North Alabama CIL Director Disability Rights and Resources 🥰

Hello everyone. My name is Becca I am an Information and Referral Specialist at The Access Center in Dayton

Hi guys!! Denise Wardle Executive Director, TARP CIL Paris, TN

Hello All, My name is Dana and I work for Disability Connections , CIL in San Angelo, Texas

Happy Tuesday from the Silver State!

What are those websites - please?

Hello! Mellowdee from the Disability Action Center-NW, Inc. in Moscow, Idaho!

Hi, I'm Dori from Able SC. :)

No cam today.

Hi everyone, my name is Brian Hollander and I am the Program Manager for Independent Living Center of the Tri-Counties in Santa Barbara, Sal Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties in CA!

Hello everyone... My name is Shaun Robison. Living Well Specialist in Specializd Services out of Camp Hill, PA

Hi all, Amanda Whittington, AT Coordinator from empower: abilities, Springfield MO

Molson.april@gmail.com

I'm here in SE Kansas and just literally just here to listen.

www.april-rural.org for resources from the last peer support Rural Conversation or the ILRU.org

Hi everyone. Mariah Boutte with the Center For Independence in Lakewood, WA.

One of these years I'll learn to actually structure a sentence into a coherent thought.

LOL, Greg.

In a response to the need for advocacy during and after this pandemic, we are creating a Breaking Silences Subcommittee. This subcommittee will solely focus on issues pertaining to disability rights within our local communities, especially those individuals who have been impacted most by the lack of planning and preparedness around the COVID-19 pandemic.The Subcommittee will be an extension of the Breaking Silences Peer Group, but will have one main goal:To create an active space for advocates to work together to develop and create community awareness and change in the communities that we live, work and participate in.The intent of this working subcommittee is to make connections with local and state officials as well as partnering with other organizations. This subcommittee is being formed to ensure that our community members obtain and maintain a place among those who will make decisions that impact our lives. Topics of discussion will include, but will not limited to:· Community Awarene

Hi Sierra

· Community Awareness of the Disability Community· Ensuring Equality for the Disability Community· Regaining Rights that have been lost or not recognized· Demanding a Place at the Table· Working to ensure an Equal Income and addressing Income Disparities· Etc.If you have encountered disability related problems during this pandemic, or you would like to volunteer to be part of change, please consider joining this subcommittee. Contact:Jesse Dennison: jesse.dennison@wright.eduOrMaria Matzik: maria.matzik@acils.comWe are currently planning to have discussions, and to work on an action plan, every Wednesday at 2 PM. This is a day and time that is flexible and can be moved to accommodate schedules of participants who will join.We look forward to working with you to create a future where everyone is recognized, respected and valued.

We are in Dayton Ohio

This group is for people all over the US

Shawn Latham, center for independence marysville WA I am trying to hold peer support groups meetings over Zoom, and to slowly transfer to in person maybe outdoor meetings before indoor ones when those are safe to do

Hello all! This is Alan Cruz Youth Community Liaison at the Dayle McIntosh Center in Anaheim CA.

HI All,

This is Vicki Comeau, I am the Mobility Manager for Newaygo County for Disability Network West Michigan

Good afternoon, I'm Lynn Hatfield from LINC, Inc. CIL covering 3 counties in S. Illinois. Gratefully, we are still working remotely providing all core services and all others as is possible. And then also taking on several new programs specifically related to the Covid 19 issues and funding that has been released. Strangely, we have not received many calls for assistance. Our focus in this next couple weeks will be outreach to other service providers and consumers to inform them of service still available.

Greetings from central Pennsylvania. CIL of North Central PA

Hello! I'm Hannah Woelke, the I&R Coordinator for a CIL that serves 5 counties (4 very rural) in S. AZ

Similarly, I have not found consumers looking for resources as much as I have consumers who simply want someone to listen. Peer Support has really moved to the top of our core services list!

We find that peer mentoring is key to transition. Speaking with someone who has been through the process, especially someone who at first thought they couldn’t do it, can be very helpful for people who may be trepidatious about moving out into the community.

Go Mary!

You must have already had some great relationships with your nursing home administrators and staff.

I agree with others that consumers having someone to vent to or listenening to has been very important to them, as we may be their only agency contacting them.

Agreed about keeping folks connected and checking in on them frequeently

Something to bear in mind with regards to the stimulus monies is that, to my understanding, those in nursing facilities getting the stimulus is that it is protected income. Nursing facilities cannot just automatically take that money; which can be instrumental in transitioning those wishing to do so.

We transitioned our Transitions Coordinator out of a facility several years ago!

Yes, this is exactly what we are telling folks about their right to receive their stimulus and that the nursing facility should not be intercepting these checks.

What are you seeing in your state with resident stimulus checks?

Exactly!

We've been hearing that banks have been dipping into stimulus check proceeds if account holders have overdraft or other fees due.

this is in NY State

Very informative thank you

Individuals should be determining how that money is spent not institutions financial or otherwise.

Are any of your centers bringing in Legal Services with these cases?

How are you getting masks to those that live alone and want to have one before venturing out of their homes? Have you been mailing them to them? There are places that you can drive thru to get them but many consumers rely on public transportation.

Sewing and mailing masks

I’m sorry but something has come up and I have to jump off of the call.

Thanks for the fantastic input!

reaching out to our Emergency and Disaster Planning county director for masks, hand sanitizer and gloves

My mom lives in a assisted living place and their activities person helps mom call us by video- so maybe just talking to their staff and asking for this to happen!

New federal rules each nursing home has to have tablets for residents to communicate with loved ones like it a one tablet for every eight residents

So glad to hear about what many nursing and assisted living facility staff are offering tro keep residents and families in contact

Ditto that dgillette

yes we have nursing facility staff that have devices consumers can use to communicate with their families and also respect the privacy of other consumers

Welcome!

We are delivering them to people's homes.

I have a question for those that have done facebook live. I was wondering how do you manage the audio description situation?

Kathy-CILCP-We mailed to our individuals in our Deaf/Blind program and they were truly appreciative when they received them.

This is Chelsie from Life, A Center for independent living, out of Pocatello, Idaho. We have partnered with the Vet center here and also obtained a grant to purchase tablets to loan out to our community. these are not only for vets but for kids who are at home and need to continue education or anyone in need for a tablet to communicate

The TAP program might also be an option for obtaining technology such as smartphones or tablets. Here in KS TAP covers some of those devices for qualifying consumers with proof of data/phone service.

technology Lead: Ohio has program called Generation On Line

You can add subtitles after posting the Facebook Live videos

I've not attempted it, sorry.

App be my eyes

I am a Be My Eyes volunteer

It looks like there are instructions on the internet on how to add captions on FB live

https://www.bemyeyes.com/download

there are webinars every Friday for next few weeks at 2;00 Pm Et that hosted by National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-term Care. I can forward email to someone that could post or send to everyone to be able to register for them, and they are providing updates about changes to nursing home rules

Ipad

lol can you type that e-mail in chat box for me I did not catch it

Thank you all.

molson.april@gmail.com

Molson.april@gmail.com

we aren't planning on going live until the State opens up a bit more. When we do, we will only have 1/2 the staff present at any given time. We are eliminating the coffee in the waiting room, and in fact, eliminating most of the waiting room altogether

We are creating procedures for staff to sanitize as we go throughout the day

should specify we are only doing Zoom now but once the state allows then we might slowly go back but for now only zoom

I will send them to you!

we wont open to the public until Aug and to start we will do scheduled appoints that way we can sanitize after each consumer

will you be doing these meetings monthly or weekly? I found this incredibly helpful and would love to stay in touch!

We don't know what opening will look like for the foreseeable future out of an abundance of caution.

Never went to work and got cabin fever before now. LOL!

Have you had many consumers dealing with being evicted; needing legal advocacy?

Not at present actually Sharon.

Mariah- We were doing them every other week- but I think we will try to continue to them monthly! WIll keep you updated

thank you :)

Be mindful of test scams going around.

The Governor here in Texas put a hold on evictions, which has helped at least one of my consumers.

Does anyone have resources for helping people with chemical sensitivity?

I believe we, in Harrisonburg VA, have an agency that works with homeless and other individuals and they move around. So, they could go to the individuals home.

Hold on evictions here in Kansas also.

Ky Governor has done the same

No evictions here in NM as well

AZ has a hold on evictions, but it has to be COVID related...so people can still be evicted if their financial issues are not tied to COVID

Wow! how do they determine that?

My consumer was relieved when I told him there was a hold on evictions, as his landlord was pressuring him to move out ASAP and he wasn't able to.

in WA a moratorium was enacted however there are still evictions happening. a local legal advocacy group led a webinar for tenants who are still facing evictions and went over in depth our state moratorium. They suggested reaching out to pro bono legal advocates.

Thanks all!

Thank you everyone.

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Great info.

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