Posted on 03/24/2005 10:10:40 PM PST by MSCASEY
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The Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities Inc., is a non-profit organization providing protection and advocacy services in the State of Florida. The Center's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, self-determination and expressed choices of individuals with disabilities.
Services are available through eight federally-funded programs:
* Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) * Protection and Advocacy for Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PADD) * Protection and Advocacy of Individual Rights (PAIR) * Protection and Advocacy for Beneficiaries of Social Security (PABSS) * Client Assistance Program (CAP) * Technical Assistance Program (TAP) * Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injuries (PATBI) * Protection and Advocacy for Voting Access (PAVA)
Each program is required to be independent of agencies providing services to persons with disabilities.
The Center promotes, expands, protects and seeks to assure the human and legal rights of people through the provision of information and advocacy. The Center will carry out its mission with the involvement of individuals with disabilities. The Center is committed to assuring community inclusion with adequate supports for all individuals with disabilities and will be at the forefront of protecting this right.
The Center also monitors the quality of residential and support services to individuals with disabilities. The monitoring may be on-site, talking with individuals receiving services and/or reviewing information from other agencies. The information gathered is used to advocate for individuals and push systemic reform in an effort to assure their civil and legal rights are protected.
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All offices are open 8AM to 5PM Eastern Time Monday-Friday.
The Advocacy Center receives funding from the Administration on Developmental Disabilities, the Center for Mental Health Services of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Rehabilitation Services Administration, the National Institute on Disability Rehabilitation Research of the U.S. Department of Education, the Social Security Administration, and the Health Resources and Services Administration
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EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER 01-364
WHEREAS, by Executive Order 87-151, as extended by Executive Orders 94-333, 98-310, 00-149 and 00-376, the Governor designated the ADVOCACY CENTER FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES, INC., as the Protection and Advocacy system for the State of Florida.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JEB BUSH, Governor of Florida, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the constitution and laws of the State of Florida, do hereby promulgate the following executive order:
Section 1.
Executive Order 87-151, as extended by Executive Orders 94-333, 98-310, 00-149 and 00-376, designating the ADVOCACY CENTER FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES, INC., to serve as the Protection and Advocacy system for the State of Florida, is hereby amended to provide for an extension of the designation of said body for a period of 12 months, until December 31, 2002, or until such earlier time as this Executive Order is amended or rescinded by further executive order of the Governor.
Section 2.
Except as amended herein, Executive Order 87-151 is hereby ratified and reaffirmed.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Florida to be affixed at Tallahassee, the Capitol, this 14th day of December, 2001.
Sorry I stink at posting! I could not get this into the right place!
Why are they federally funded and they did not intervene?
Went to sh-t, and the hogs ate em, I bet.
Yeah, where are these groups behind wheelchair bound persons who sue restaurants, department stores, theatres, etc...etc..because there is no proper access for persons with disabilities?
Why not sue in behalf of Terri Schiavo because her access to food and water was cut off?
I guess I was wrong! I looked on the web-site. I guess Micheal, Felos, and Greer got them to!
Statement Regarding
Terri Schiavo
March 1, 2005
Re: Terri Schiavo
In 2004, the Advocacy Center brought suit in the U.S. District Court in Tampa to stay the removal of Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube. The Court denied the Center’s motion for a temporary restraining order.
Subsequently, Terri’s law was passed that negated further emergency efforts on behalf of Ms. Schiavo. However, the Center continued to press for further information regarding Ms. Schiavo’s condition. The Center hired a nationally known Harvard neurologist to look into whether Ms. Schiavo was in a persistent vegetative state.
Last October, this Doctor contacted the Center stating he would not give an opinion based upon the records supplied to him without first examining her. The Center next contacted the attorney for Ms. Schiavo’s husband and offered to bring the Doctor to Florida to conduct such an examination. The offer was declined.
The Advocacy Center continues to be in daily contact with those in the disability community, who seek to find away to stop the process that will lead to her death.
Aren't they part of the Citizens with Disabilities Act.
Several people have mentioned that this organization should have stepped in a long time ago and kept track of Terri.
But .. I also heard that the laws needed to protect Terri through this Act - do not exist. I expect we will see this remedied very shortly, where public law will require a federal review of any such case like Terri's.
See reply 8. If you wanted to post this in another separate post that would be good. I stink at posting articles.
Check out post number eight this was on the web-site. I guess they tried to get a doctor in last October.
No group is coming to her side...It's all individuals.......
Things must change...judges must be held accountable...not left to operate in a vacuum of radical leftist ideology.
but , no.............
The basic problem is that a pissant county probate judge can do whatever the hell he wants, and nobody -- including the governor -- can do a thing about it.
This needs to change in America and quick. We need not to EVER, EVER allow any trash judge to this again.
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