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September 24, 2005
Florida Deaf/Blind Association will be having their day conference on
Saturday, September 24, 2005 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM at the DAV
(Disabled Veteran Building), 4801 37th Ave. N., St. Petersburg, FL.
(The FAD board meeting will be meeting there in a different room).
They have asked me to find SSPs (Support Service Providers) to assist
the deaf/blind during that time and also there will be social
afterward after the meeting at the same location. It will be good for
deaf or ASL students who are trying to get contact hours. Please
contact me if you are interested in assisting that day. Thank you!
Sarah M. Harris
sharris@fadcentral.org
1-941-758-2542 Work VP
*Advocacy & Education Director at the Community Ctr for the Deaf &
Hard of Hearing
*Member of Florida Coordinating Council
for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing
*Member of The Real Choice Partnership Project
*Member of Florida Assocation of the Deaf
*Miss Deaf Florida Pageant Director
Katrina: SPECIFIC needs in the interpreter/deaf community:
September 16, 2005
These are SPECIFIC needs in the interpreter/deaf community:
Information below provided in this order:
Name
Phone Number
E-mail
Address
Temp Address
Need what
Cathy Lando
214-298-8736 cell sharing w/Vicky Emerson
Biloxi, MS
4528 Lake Credt Drive, The Colony, TX 75056-3468
14-16 Lg Shirts 14 W Pants 7 W Shoes
Greater St. Matthews Attn: Brenda or Sandra Gillespie
7701 Jutland Houston, Texas 77033
houston church that will make sure to get relief to deaf and terps
Toiletries, Walmart gift cards
Louisiana School for the Deaf
The school is housing students, teachers and interpreters that have lost their homes and have no place to stay. This group also includes mainstreamed students from New Orleans.
Hurricane Relief, c/o Bill Prickett, 2888 Brightside Lane, Baton Rouge LA 70820
make out your checks, payable to "Louisiana School for the Deaf" and write on the bottom of the checks "Hurricane Relief."
clothes, toiletries, linen, school supplies
Noah Butler, III
(214) 547-1700 Rm 219 214-938-6051 cell
al_yadav_inc@yahoo.com
Gretna, LA
Hilton Garden Inn 705 Central Expressway South Allen, Texas 75013
lost everything, work, 10M shoe, 34 M pant, large shirt, Target
Rev. John & Barbara Lovas (pastors of the Canal Blvd Baptist Deaf Church in New Orleans)
BBLovas1@yahoo.com
765 N. Main St., St. Martinville, LA 70582
the Lovas's, and many of their members have their homes under water.
Vicky Emerson
(504) 289-5007 214-298-8736 sharew/Cathy Lando
vickylee21@aol.com
New Orleans, LA - heading to 894 Pond Court, Lebanon, Tx
4528 Lake Credt Drive, The Colony, TX 75056-3468
16-18 W Shirt 16 W Pants 71/2W Shoes, Target
Woodhaven Baptist Deaf Church
9920 Long Point, Houston, TX 77055
Supplies can be sent here. http://www.woodhavendeaf.org/Map.htm which also includes the map.
The following individuals are registered at Target:
1. Gary Morgan
2. Anthony Aramburo
3. Less Yoakum
4. Noah Butler
5. Vicky Emerson
QUESTIONS? Please contact Gentry at the office (407-518-7900 ext. 321).
Are you trying to locate a person within the deaf community?
1. Contact Gentry at the office (ext. 321) to receive updated information.
2. Visit www.Redcross.org
3. Contact Sclifton1976@yahoo.com and Director@deafactioncentertexas.org to receive information regarding deaf evacuees in Texas.
Kroger, Randalls, Target and Walmart are major stores in the Texas area. Gift cards are always appreciated.
People are also in need of “sidekicks” and a few months of service. Please consider donating!
Social Bowl-a-thon
September 10, 2005
Communication Center for the
Deaf/Hard of Hearing, Inc.
(CCDHH)
Proudly invites you to a
Social Bowl-a-thon
Saturday, September 10, 2005
1-4 p.m.
AMF Kissimmee Lanes
4140 West Vine Street
Kissimmee, FL 34741
Only $10
(three games and shoe rental included)
Come support and play for CCDHH
(407) 518-9050 or email at CCDHHOFKISS@aol.com
Buy raffle tickets for a chance to win door prizes.
Email List for Katrina Help
September 09, 2005
Here is an unmoderated email list (katrinaterps-subscribe@yahoogroups.com) for information sharing, housing, displacement work, etc. Please check it out and help!
Louisiana School for the Deaf and Katrina
September 09, 2005
Hello friends,
Your emails are finally getting through to us. Our heartfelt thanks to all of you for your concern and support in this tragedy. It is sinking in to us that this is not something that will go away next week. Our lives here in Louisiana have changed and will never be the same.
LSD's campus and facilities came through unscathed, allowing us to
devote our attention to assisting the homeless. Our priority has been to locate our New Orleans area students and get them back in school. We have contacted students and their families in Florida, Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas, as well as all over Louisiana. They are beginning to make their way to Baton Rouge to bring their child back to school. In most cases, this means providing shelter for their families. This morning we have 11 families (49) people living in one of our dormitories. This is a number that fluctuates daily. Families find apartments to rent and move out, or they connect with relatives outside Baton Rouge and move on. Example: one little girl's extended family (17 members) found an apartment to rent and moved out last Friday. We expect several more families to arrive today.
These folks are in need of clothing and basic supplies..
We are also housing LSD staff members and their families who lost their homes or have been without electricity for an extended period. The daytime temperature here continues to be in the mid-90s. Thank God this has been a small number.
Re: the deaf community for whom we've provided shelter, this number has also fluctuated. We've had as many as 12 or more and that number is down to two this morning. They come here, catch their breath, eat a hot meal, wash their clothes, get a hot shower and an air-conditioned night's sleep. We then help them contact friends or relatives who can take them in. We had two elderly brothers, both deaf-blind, who miraculously made their way out of New Orleans to a shelter near Baton Rouge. One of the volunteers in that shelter was the daughter of an interpreter. She told her mother who contacted LSD and then drove the two gentlemen to LSD. They were with us several days until they could contact friends who came to get them.
The local service providers (Louisiana Commission for the Deaf,
Louisiana Association of the Deaf, Louisiana Career Development Center, Catholic Deaf Center, First Baptist Deaf Church, Assembly of God Deaf Church, and Louisiana School for the Deaf) are coordinating services for deaf refugees. The Baton Rouge Deaf Action Center will do initial screening and connect the deaf refugees with Food Stamps, Unemployment, Social Security, FEMA, counseling and comforting, etc. and provide interpreters. LSD will provide temporary housing, food and clothing until the refugees can be relocated with friends or relatives. Once this is publicized, we expect a large number of homeless deaf people to be processed through LSD.
Our most pressing need is and will be monetary donations. As most of you know, I am limited by laws and regulations as to how I can spend our state appropriation. Monetary donations earmarked for a specific purpose (hurricane relief) I can spend as needed. We have established a special account through which these donations will flow. This money would go for clothing, toiletries, and food for the families of LSD students and the homeless deaf people who will be housed at LSD. Donations in lieu of material goods gives us the flexibility to purchase the exact items and sizes needed and we should be able to save by purchasing some things in bulk. In addition, it would go for gas, bus tickets, train tickets to reunite these people with their friends or relatives, if possible.
Please make checks payable to the Louisiana School for the Deaf, with a notation "for hurricane relief," and send to my attention at the address below.
Please remember us in your prayers.
Bill Prickett, Superintendent
Louisiana School for the Deaf
P.O. Box 3074
Baton Rouge, LA 70821
(225)769-8160 V,TDD
(888)769-8111 (instate only)
(225)757-3424 FAX
http://www.lalsd.org/