Hi everyone,
As many of you know that ABILITIES EXPO (New Jersey Convention Center, Edison, NJ) will be held from April 27 to April 29.
Exhibits, Free Educational Workshops, Special Events. Don’t miss the opportunity to explore hundreds of products and services for people with disabilities. For more information, call 1-800-385-3085
or go to www.abilitiesexpo.com .
DIA finally got opportunity to get the buses to go to NJ from NYC.
If you want to go by school bus with a group on 4/28, call Marty Sesmer 212-684-6287 for details.
Send check, money order, or cash for $10 (payable to DIA at 332 East 29th Street, # 5A, NY, NY 10016). It is $10 charge for your PCA.
Reservations accept on a first-come, first-served basis! Space is limited.
There are 3 days left! Hurry up!
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
CMS Technical Assistance Database
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - Launches Technical Assistance Database
Good news! CMS has just launched an exciting new database to showcase the efforts of many of the technical assistance providers serving CMS' grantees. The "Technical Assistance Database" will allow you to see the wide range of activities that support and enrich the grantees under the New Freedom Initiative. The database will contain important information regarding existing and upcoming research products, conferences, and significant meetings as well as a wide variety of toolkits, surveys, and policy briefs, intended to be of interested to the disability and long-term care community.
All stakeholders will be able to view the database. CMS grantees, however, will be given access passcodes to enable them to post requests for technical assistance to the vast cadre of experts supporting CMS' initiatives. To access the Technical Assistance Database, please go to www.DEHPG.net. The user name for the database is "TAdatabase" and the "passcode" is Readonly#1.
Grantees are strongly encouraged to utilize the Technical Assistance Database. To request a passcode, please e-mail your request to the CMS Resource Box at TAdatabase@cms.hhs.gov. Please indicate your name, type of grant you represent, and your phone number in the e-mail. In the near future, CMS will offer a training sessions, customized for the NFI grantees, to demonstrate the vast uses of this robust database. We encourage you to request your passcode soon, so that you can avail yourself of this dynamic training. Details regarding the trainings will be forthcoming.
Good news! CMS has just launched an exciting new database to showcase the efforts of many of the technical assistance providers serving CMS' grantees. The "Technical Assistance Database" will allow you to see the wide range of activities that support and enrich the grantees under the New Freedom Initiative. The database will contain important information regarding existing and upcoming research products, conferences, and significant meetings as well as a wide variety of toolkits, surveys, and policy briefs, intended to be of interested to the disability and long-term care community.
All stakeholders will be able to view the database. CMS grantees, however, will be given access passcodes to enable them to post requests for technical assistance to the vast cadre of experts supporting CMS' initiatives. To access the Technical Assistance Database, please go to www.DEHPG.net. The user name for the database is "TAdatabase" and the "passcode" is Readonly#1.
Grantees are strongly encouraged to utilize the Technical Assistance Database. To request a passcode, please e-mail your request to the CMS Resource Box at TAdatabase@cms.hhs.gov. Please indicate your name, type of grant you represent, and your phone number in the e-mail. In the near future, CMS will offer a training sessions, customized for the NFI grantees, to demonstrate the vast uses of this robust database. We encourage you to request your passcode soon, so that you can avail yourself of this dynamic training. Details regarding the trainings will be forthcoming.
CMS Technical Assistance Database
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - Launches Technical Assistance Database
Good news! CMS has just launched an exciting new database to showcase the efforts of many of the technical assistance providers serving CMS' grantees. The "Technical Assistance Database" will allow you to see the wide range of activities that support and enrich the grantees under the New Freedom Initiative. The database will contain important information regarding existing and upcoming research products, conferences, and significant meetings as well as a wide variety of toolkits, surveys, and policy briefs, intended to be of interested to the disability and long-term care community.
All stakeholders will be able to view the database. CMS grantees, however, will be given access passcodes to enable them to post requests for technical assistance to the vast cadre of experts supporting CMS' initiatives. To access the Technical Assistance Database, please go to www.DEHPG.net. The user name for the database is "TAdatabase" and the "passcode" is Readonly#1.
Grantees are strongly encouraged to utilize the Technical Assistance Database. To request a passcode, please e-mail your request to the CMS Resource Box at TAdatabase@cms.hhs.gov. Please indicate your name, type of grant you represent, and your phone number in the e-mail. In the near future, CMS will offer a training sessions, customized for the NFI grantees, to demonstrate the vast uses of this robust database. We encourage you to request your passcode soon, so that you can avail yourself of this dynamic training. Details regarding the trainings will be forthcoming.
Good news! CMS has just launched an exciting new database to showcase the efforts of many of the technical assistance providers serving CMS' grantees. The "Technical Assistance Database" will allow you to see the wide range of activities that support and enrich the grantees under the New Freedom Initiative. The database will contain important information regarding existing and upcoming research products, conferences, and significant meetings as well as a wide variety of toolkits, surveys, and policy briefs, intended to be of interested to the disability and long-term care community.
All stakeholders will be able to view the database. CMS grantees, however, will be given access passcodes to enable them to post requests for technical assistance to the vast cadre of experts supporting CMS' initiatives. To access the Technical Assistance Database, please go to www.DEHPG.net. The user name for the database is "TAdatabase" and the "passcode" is Readonly#1.
Grantees are strongly encouraged to utilize the Technical Assistance Database. To request a passcode, please e-mail your request to the CMS Resource Box at TAdatabase@cms.hhs.gov. Please indicate your name, type of grant you represent, and your phone number in the e-mail. In the near future, CMS will offer a training sessions, customized for the NFI grantees, to demonstrate the vast uses of this robust database. We encourage you to request your passcode soon, so that you can avail yourself of this dynamic training. Details regarding the trainings will be forthcoming.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
CUNY Student Express: State Budget Alert
CUNY STUDENT EXPRESS
February 27, 2007
NEW YORK STATE BUDGET ALERT: TIME TO INVEST IN CUNY
Visit www.supportcuny.org
As you know, the 2007-2008 New York State Executive Budget proposed by the Governor is currently under review by The New York State Legislature. Significant operating and capital support for CUNY is included, which represents the best starting point in many years. We need your help now to communicate to State legislators how the budget can be further enhanced to allow CUNY to hire more full-time faculty, strengthen academic and student support, and library services, and more fully meet technology and capital needs. Please visit www.supportcuny.org today to email your views on the State budget. Draft letters are provided and we encourage you to take the time to send your own.
A one-page fact sheet on the State budget is included below. You can read Chancellor Matthew Goldstein's testimony before the legislative fiscal committees at www.supportcuny.org. It is important to note that after one year, 90% of all CUNY graduates remain in New York State. After ten years, over 80% stay here as taxpaying residents, providing a stable tax base of educated citizens who repay the investment made in their education many times over through a lifetime of taxes paid to state, city, and federal coffers. The CUNY Compact, which enlists public and private partners to help finance the CUNY colleges, provides the long term basis for support. The immediate need, however, is for you to be heard now, while the legislative review process is still at work. State leaders will decide on revenue targets and available funds by March 1 and then work towards the adoption of a budget by the end of March. Please visit www.supportcuny.org today. Thank you for your support.
Sincerely,
Jay Hershenson
Senior Vice Chancellor for University Relations and
Secretary of the Board of Trustees
The City University of New York
2007-2008 State Budget Priorities
Senior College Operating Budget Gap $24.3 million
While the State Executive Budget provides additional operating aid, it does not provide sufficient funding to cover all of the approved senior college Master Plan initiatives. Given the University's need for full-time faculty and the resources required to support the highest enrollment in 31 years, additional support is warranted. The senior colleges need strengthened undergraduate and graduate programs, expanded research opportunities, and enhanced academic and student support.
State Aid for Community Colleges $5.0 million
CUNY community colleges need base aid funding of $2,650 per FTE, an increase of $125. The Executive Budget recommends a state aid per FTE increase of $100 ($2,625) for the community colleges. This base aid increase, valued at $2.0 million, will assist the University in covering increased mandatory costs at the community colleges. In addition, the University is seeking $3.0 million in additional support to the community colleges in order to provide for priorities outlined in the University's Master Plan. These critical initiatives include additional full-time faculty, library support, and student services enhancements in areas such as counseling, child care, and services to students with disabilities.
Senior College Capital Budget $89.2 million
The Executive Budget does not include all of the additional funds requested by the University in FY2007-2008. The primary need is $50 million in continued funding for the NIT/Information Systems & Administrative Applications project (the University's Enterprise Resource Planning Initiative). Secondary needs include: $24.2 million to address cost escalation increases due to recent economic changes for projects already in construction, including Brooklyn College's West Quad building and City College's School of Architecture; $10 million for the Certificates of Occupancy Initiative that ensures all CUNY facilities continue to be in compliance with Building Department regulations; and $5 million to complete the Visitors' Center for the Louis Armstrong House Museum and Archives at Queens College.
Community College Capital Budget $8.3 million
The State Executive Budget does not fund all of the needs requested by the University in FY 2007-2008, such as: $2.5 million in continued funding for the NIT/Information Systems & Administrative Applications project (the University's Enterprise Resource Planning Initiative); $2.5 million for the Certificates of Occupancy Initiative that ensures all CUNY facilities continue to be in compliance with Building Department regulations; and $3.3 million for roof replacement and to provide backflow prevention devices required at Bronx Community College.
Financial Aid
The Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) is a critical safety net that allows financially disadvantaged students to attend the University. Over 64,000 of CUNY's undergraduate, degree-seeking students received TAP funding. The University strongly recommends that any modifications to state financial aid programs should be need-based in order to assist those students and families with greatest hardship.
February 27, 2007
NEW YORK STATE BUDGET ALERT: TIME TO INVEST IN CUNY
Visit www.supportcuny.org
As you know, the 2007-2008 New York State Executive Budget proposed by the Governor is currently under review by The New York State Legislature. Significant operating and capital support for CUNY is included, which represents the best starting point in many years. We need your help now to communicate to State legislators how the budget can be further enhanced to allow CUNY to hire more full-time faculty, strengthen academic and student support, and library services, and more fully meet technology and capital needs. Please visit www.supportcuny.org today to email your views on the State budget. Draft letters are provided and we encourage you to take the time to send your own.
A one-page fact sheet on the State budget is included below. You can read Chancellor Matthew Goldstein's testimony before the legislative fiscal committees at www.supportcuny.org. It is important to note that after one year, 90% of all CUNY graduates remain in New York State. After ten years, over 80% stay here as taxpaying residents, providing a stable tax base of educated citizens who repay the investment made in their education many times over through a lifetime of taxes paid to state, city, and federal coffers. The CUNY Compact, which enlists public and private partners to help finance the CUNY colleges, provides the long term basis for support. The immediate need, however, is for you to be heard now, while the legislative review process is still at work. State leaders will decide on revenue targets and available funds by March 1 and then work towards the adoption of a budget by the end of March. Please visit www.supportcuny.org today. Thank you for your support.
Sincerely,
Jay Hershenson
Senior Vice Chancellor for University Relations and
Secretary of the Board of Trustees
The City University of New York
2007-2008 State Budget Priorities
Senior College Operating Budget Gap $24.3 million
While the State Executive Budget provides additional operating aid, it does not provide sufficient funding to cover all of the approved senior college Master Plan initiatives. Given the University's need for full-time faculty and the resources required to support the highest enrollment in 31 years, additional support is warranted. The senior colleges need strengthened undergraduate and graduate programs, expanded research opportunities, and enhanced academic and student support.
State Aid for Community Colleges $5.0 million
CUNY community colleges need base aid funding of $2,650 per FTE, an increase of $125. The Executive Budget recommends a state aid per FTE increase of $100 ($2,625) for the community colleges. This base aid increase, valued at $2.0 million, will assist the University in covering increased mandatory costs at the community colleges. In addition, the University is seeking $3.0 million in additional support to the community colleges in order to provide for priorities outlined in the University's Master Plan. These critical initiatives include additional full-time faculty, library support, and student services enhancements in areas such as counseling, child care, and services to students with disabilities.
Senior College Capital Budget $89.2 million
The Executive Budget does not include all of the additional funds requested by the University in FY2007-2008. The primary need is $50 million in continued funding for the NIT/Information Systems & Administrative Applications project (the University's Enterprise Resource Planning Initiative). Secondary needs include: $24.2 million to address cost escalation increases due to recent economic changes for projects already in construction, including Brooklyn College's West Quad building and City College's School of Architecture; $10 million for the Certificates of Occupancy Initiative that ensures all CUNY facilities continue to be in compliance with Building Department regulations; and $5 million to complete the Visitors' Center for the Louis Armstrong House Museum and Archives at Queens College.
Community College Capital Budget $8.3 million
The State Executive Budget does not fund all of the needs requested by the University in FY 2007-2008, such as: $2.5 million in continued funding for the NIT/Information Systems & Administrative Applications project (the University's Enterprise Resource Planning Initiative); $2.5 million for the Certificates of Occupancy Initiative that ensures all CUNY facilities continue to be in compliance with Building Department regulations; and $3.3 million for roof replacement and to provide backflow prevention devices required at Bronx Community College.
Financial Aid
The Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) is a critical safety net that allows financially disadvantaged students to attend the University. Over 64,000 of CUNY's undergraduate, degree-seeking students received TAP funding. The University strongly recommends that any modifications to state financial aid programs should be need-based in order to assist those students and families with greatest hardship.
Sunday, February 25, 2007
ICD ART SHOW
ICD ART SHOW
ICD-International Center for the Disabled and its Client Advisory Board announce the opening of Expression Through Art, an art exhibit created by clients of ICD in celebration of ICD’s 90th Anniversary. Expression Through Art features the work of artists of diverse backgrounds and reflects their varied life experiences. Some of the exhibited artists were creating art prior to the onset of disability and others found art as a result of their disability.
The show is open to the public at ICD, 340 E24th Street, 2nd floor, between 1st and 2nd Avenues in Manhattan, Monday to Friday from 8am-1pm, and will run until June. For more information call 212-585-6070.
ICD offers outpatient rehabilitation services, including a mental health clinic, brain injury services, addiction recovery services, physical medicine, and rehabilitation, physical and occupational therapy, and primary medical care.
ICD-International Center for the Disabled and its Client Advisory Board announce the opening of Expression Through Art, an art exhibit created by clients of ICD in celebration of ICD’s 90th Anniversary. Expression Through Art features the work of artists of diverse backgrounds and reflects their varied life experiences. Some of the exhibited artists were creating art prior to the onset of disability and others found art as a result of their disability.
The show is open to the public at ICD, 340 E24th Street, 2nd floor, between 1st and 2nd Avenues in Manhattan, Monday to Friday from 8am-1pm, and will run until June. For more information call 212-585-6070.
ICD offers outpatient rehabilitation services, including a mental health clinic, brain injury services, addiction recovery services, physical medicine, and rehabilitation, physical and occupational therapy, and primary medical care.
Friday, February 23, 2007
E Alert - Letter
This year the spring semester final exam period overlaps with a religious holiday. As such, there may be students who are unable to take exams from late afternoon on Tuesday, May 22 through the evening of Thursday, May 24. New York State law requires that we provide an equivalent makeup opportunity for students who miss exams for religious observance.
Accordingly, we are designating Tuesday, May 29 and Wednesday, May 30 as makeup exam days. Specifically, makeups for final exams originally scheduled in a particular time slot on Wednesday, May 23 will be administered in that same time slot on Tuesday, May 29. Makeups for finals scheduled on Thursday, May 24 in a particular time slot will be administered in that same time slot on Wednesday, May 30.
Given that May 28 is Memorial Day and May 31 Commencement, there are no time slots available to designate a general period for administering makeups for exams originally scheduled late afternoon or evening on Tuesday, May 22. Makeups for these exams will have to be arranged on a case-by-case basis between faculty and students.
Thank you for your cooperation.
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Brooklyn College is located at 2900 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11210. Phone: 718-951-5000
Accordingly, we are designating Tuesday, May 29 and Wednesday, May 30 as makeup exam days. Specifically, makeups for final exams originally scheduled in a particular time slot on Wednesday, May 23 will be administered in that same time slot on Tuesday, May 29. Makeups for finals scheduled on Thursday, May 24 in a particular time slot will be administered in that same time slot on Wednesday, May 30.
Given that May 28 is Memorial Day and May 31 Commencement, there are no time slots available to designate a general period for administering makeups for exams originally scheduled late afternoon or evening on Tuesday, May 22. Makeups for these exams will have to be arranged on a case-by-case basis between faculty and students.
Thank you for your cooperation.
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To manage your subscription to Brooklyn College eAlerts, please visit https://websql.brooklyn.cuny.edu/eAlerts
Brooklyn College is located at 2900 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11210. Phone: 718-951-5000
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Vocational Rehabilitation in Employment Update: Self-Employment as a Customized Employment Outcome
Some people with disabilities will consider self-employment as a career option due to a lack of available employment opportunities in the community. However, difficulty finding a job should not be the only reason that a person decides to start a business. Self-employment should be viewed as another approach to customizing employment for someone who happens to have a disability. This information has recently been updated, and is now available - http://www.disabilityinfo.gov/digov-public/public/DisplayPage.do?parentFolderId=5094 & http://www.disabilityinfo.gov/digov-public/public/DisplayPage.do?parentFolderId=41
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