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Meeting with Dr. Bigby
 Rescue MCDHH Bill Allan, Disability Policy Consortium Executive Director, and I had a meeting with Dr. JudyAnn Bigby who is the secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services. Dr. Jean McGuire was also present at the meeting. Dr. Bigby said that she didn't have any targets or rationales for cutting MCDHH more than [...]Sun, Jan 30 2011 7 Deaf Community Leaders Share Their Concerns About MCDHH
 Rescue MCDHH # Transcript is underwayTue, Dec 21 2010 Another Boston Globe article
Rescue MCDHH Click here to see the article. The job does not end here and we need to do more to expose the ugly truth.Thu, Dec 16 2010 Vlog from MSAD
Rescue MCDHH This vlog by Alberto Sifuentes provides more details about the hearing:Thu, Dec 09 2010 Budget Update – Bad News
Rescue MCDHH After a big rally at the state house, it appears that our voices are not heard because the House Ways and Means made a budgetary recommendation that is $65K less than what our Governor has recommended! I urge you to contact your legislators NOW to ask them to make amendments to restore funding for [...]Sat, Apr 17 2010 Your Feedback Needed – VLOG By John Pirone
Rescue MCDHH Transcript: Hello, It will be a short vlog and there will be two things to discuss. 1. Yesterday, it was a GREAT event and more than 150 people attended. Many of them had a great time. Some legislators were surprised to see that many people who attended. I thought it was great that we have sent a strong message [...]Thu, Feb 25 2010 A Big Success!
Rescue MCDHH I want to thank you for making the event a big success! It appears that more than 150 people attended and made their voices heard. I do believe that we have produced some noises in the State House! Please remember that this is only the beginning and we have a lot of work to do in [...]Wed, Feb 24 2010 A Comment From a Former MCDHH Employee
Rescue MCDHH Hello everyone, I am writing this as a former employee of MCDHH. When I saw the post on this website that MCDHH has lost about 8.5% of its budget since the beginning of the FY10 and is expected to lose more for FY11 while MRC sees a minimal loss and MCB gets an increase for the FY11. In this case, [...]Tue, Feb 16 2010 MCDHH suffers the most.
Rescue MCDHH Here is the snapshot of each agency's budget that I derive from mass.gov: Mass. Rehab. Commission FY10 – $44,788,000 then reduced to 42,150,000 (loss of 2.5 mil or 5.5 percent) FY11 – $42,118,000. (32K loss from the current FY budget) Mass. Commission for the Blind FY10 – $26,909,000 then reduced to $26,893,000 (loss of 16K or less one perc...Sun, Jan 31 2010 Governor Patrick’s FY 11 Budget
Rescue MCDHH As a part of Governor Patrick's recommendations, MCDHH's budget would drop by 8.2 percent and you may find his recommendation at [link] I will share my analysis with you on the cost impact of the recommendation as soon as I gather all information from all different sources.Wed, Jan 27 2010 Nini Silver’s VLOG
Rescue MCDHH Nini Silver from DPC made a vlog and it is in addition to my previous posting, “Not At This Time.”Tue, Jan 26 2010 Not at this time.
Rescue MCDHH Jean McGuire, an EOHHS official, and Bill Allan, a DPC Executive Director, had a discussion and Jean's reply to his e-mail is as following: “Bill – Thank you for your efforts to facilitate clarification of concerns regarding the possibility of merger of the disability agencies. This email is intended to confirm the discussions you and I [...]Sat, Jan 23 2010 Consolidation is Mentioned.
Rescue MCDHH Governor Patrick delivered a speech tonight and he mentioned “consolidation” briefly. Here is the quote from the State of the Commonwealth Address: “I will not be satisfied until we have reshaped and reinvented state government itself, consolidated more agencies and wrung out of them every inefficiency.” Even though he does not mention MCDHH, ...Thu, Jan 21 2010 A Word from an EOHHS official
Rescue MCDHH An EOHHS official contacted Bill Allan, Executive Director of Disability Policy Consortium, and said that there were ‘no plans' to merge the agencies at this point. There will be an official statement from either Dr. Bigby or Commissioner Reed soon to confirm this. I will keep you posted. *EOHHS stands for Executive Office of Health and [...]Wed, Jan 06 2010 A Transcript for MSAD Vice President’s Video
Rescue MCDHH Hi, my name is Michelle Donatello, and I’m the vice president of the Massachusetts State Association of the Deaf (MSAD). Nini Silver of the Disability Policy Consortium (DPC) got my attention tonight with the vlog she posted concerning a meeting that was held recently with Heidi Reed, the Commissioner of MCDHH, and Charlie Carr, the [...]Sat, Jan 02 2010 No Word from Secretary Bigby
Rescue MCDHH I want to let you know that DPC has yet heard back from Secretary Bigby for a meeting to get a straightforward answer from her about a possible merger. Keep you posted.Mon, Dec 21 2009 Updated List of Reasons Why MCDHH Shouldn’t Be Merged
Rescue MCDHH 1. MCDHH is the voice of the Deaf community 2. MCDHH is a history and shall not be destroyed. (sic). 3. MCDHH educates those who know nothing or little about deafness. 4. MCDHH is the first resource in the state for many people and we need an agency that is visible with the word “Deaf” in it – [...]Sun, Dec 20 2009 A Video Message from the Massachusetts State Association of...
Rescue MCDHH Here is the video – MSAD will send me a transcript soon.Fri, Dec 18 2009 A transcript for Nini Silver’s video
Rescue MCDHH Hello, my name is Nini Silver. I work for the Disability Policy Consortium. Today the DPC staff met with Commissioners Heidi Reed of MCDHH and Charles Carr of MRC. The two commissioners made it clear that the concept of a merger of MRC, MCB and MCDHH is NOT YET a FACT. We [...]Thu, Dec 17 2009 New Twitter
Rescue MCDHH I have set up a new twitter account (rescuemcdhh) and I encourage you to subscribe to this. Why? It's the fastest way to alert you and all messages will be short. Thanks, JohnThu, Dec 17 2009 A transcript for my very first video
Rescue MCDHH Hello, I want to share a very serious issue with you. Given that I am a member of the Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing's Statewide Advisory Council (SAC), I attended a meeting recently. The MCDHH commissioner shared the news with us that the government has an active discussion that all three state [...]Thu, Dec 17 2009 A transcript for my vlog, “In Response to Some Questions”
Rescue MCDHH Hello everyone, Thank you for visiting my website and I appreciate that you have shared your ideas/feedback with me. The reason why I am making this vlog is that you have some questions that I'd like to answer. Some of you asked, “The merger did happen?” The fact is that it is not happening, JUST [...]Thu, Dec 17 2009 Disability Policy Consortium
Rescue MCDHH The Disability Policy Consortium met with the MRC commissioner and MCDHH commissioner yesterday and one of the topics was a merger. Here is the statement from the Executive Director of DPC, Bill Allan: “We discussed the fact that EOHHS continues to discuss consolidation of disability agency functions and there is talk of reducing the number [...]Wed, Dec 16 2009 Give me a reason why MCDHH shouldn’t be merged?
Rescue MCDHH I want to build a list of all reasons from you to show the government why MCDHH must not be merged. I'll start with one. 1. MCDHH is the voice of the Deaf community.Tue, Dec 15 2009 It’s a FACT!
Rescue MCDHH I learned that there is a similar situation in RI. A few years ago, the State of RI wanted to merge the RI Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing with one of its state departments, Elder Affairs. The merger failed, eventually, and you know why? The community spoke up. So, we can do the [...]Tue, Dec 15 2009 A new video
Rescue MCDHH I want to let you know that a new video has been posted to the page, Voice of the People, so check it out!Tue, Dec 15 2009 Contact Legislators
Rescue MCDHH As of today, I have been told that 11 people have contacted the legislators and I am waving my hands for them! If you have called your representative, then can you please let me know? I will report a number of calls here every time I get an update from you. [...]Tue, Dec 15 2009 Voice of The People
Rescue MCDHH To supporters: I will set up a new page called “Voice of The People” and it is where your voice will be heard. What you can do is as following: 1. Youtube video You can make a video (1 to 2 minutes recommended) through youtube or google then send me a link. I will post it here. If you are [...]Tue, Dec 15 2009 |
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