Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc.
November 22, 2005
Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc. (TDI) has announced a new fund for deaf and hard of hearing survivors of Hurricane Katrina who may need financial assistance to restore communication access. Donations to this fund will go toward replacing telecommunication technologies lost or damaged as a result of the worst natural disaster ever to hit the United States. For more information, go to:
http://www.cepintdi.org/090805.htm
Deaf Artists and Performers Raising Funds for Katrina Survivors
November 22, 2005
A group of deaf and hard of hearing performers and artists have set up a website to help Hurricane Katrina relief and recovery efforts by donating their work. The fund raised from their work will be donated to the NAD Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund.
http://www.dhhrelief.org
Rebuilding Continued
October 10, 2005
A collection of websites, resources and information to assist interpreters in private practice and Deaf entrepreneurs to restart and rebuild a private practice or small business.
http://www.caninterpreters.com/links.html
After the Hurricane - Restart Your Business
October 10, 2005
Please review the attached document.
Restart Your Practice Toolkit (Word Document)
A summary of the topics is below.
This is just a first pass at a basic toolkit that I would like to share with each of you; I think this could be shared with NAD, BAD, RAD also, but I wouldn't presume to know exactly who to share it with. I am working on getting 50 copies of Peachtree or QuickBooks accounting software, so far I've identifed a little bit of information from them but it's going to take a few more days I think to really get any definiative answer from them.
I think it would be great if everyone could take the opportunity to make this resource available jointly. I think this is a historic moment for that to happen and provide a tangible resource and action to members of each organization that were effected.
There shouldn't be any financial impact and I think it could be handled with respect, discretion if needed, and a strong sense of support not charity.
I won't send this out to anyone else right now, but I have solicited donations on katrinaterps for those who have extra copies of QuickBooks, Peachtree, MS Office, etc.
You may reply directly or to the group as you see fit.
Daryl
Summary of information contained in the toolkit right now:
Apply for Aid Online – FEMA
Katrina en español (FirstGov.gov)
Small Business Administration
Free Online Entrepreneurship Course
How to Apply for SBA Disaster Loan Assistance after a Declared Disaster
Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE)
Women’s Business Centers
Small Business Development Centers (en español) (SBDC)
Information about the 8(a) Small Business Program
QuickBooks
Peachtree
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!
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/