From: Ann Akland
To: arhams@yahoo.com
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 1:29 PM
Subject: Group Home Emergency, WRAL TV, On the Record, 7pm Tonight
NAMI Wake County
PO Box 12562
Raleigh, NC 27605-2562
(919) 848 4490
www.nami-wake.org
November 17, 2012
We Care, We Act
Thank you for supporting our Rally and Press Conference.
About 200 people came down to the NC Legislature, overflowing the meeting room of the Blue Ribbon Commission on Transitions to Community Housing. All local press outlets covered the event. Clips and stories are on our website: Click here for details.
TONIGHT
Watch WRAL TV's "On the Record" with David Crabtree
this evening at 7pm (Sat., Nov 17)
Guests are Rep. Nelson Dollar, Co-Chair of the Blue Ribbon Commission on Trainsitions to Community Housing and Ann Akland, Past President and Advocacy Chair, NAMI Wake County. The show will also include a video response from the Governor.
What Next?
1) Contact Sen. Phil Berger, President, Pro Tempore of the NC Senate. The NC Senate needs to take a leadership role in solving the Group Home crisis. Calls are most effective, followed by personal letters to his home address, followed by emails.Telephone: 336 623 5210, Home Address: Sen. Phil Berger, President, Pro Tempore of the NC Senate. P.O. Box 1309, Eden, NC 27289-1309, email: Phil.Berger@ncleg.net Message: Quickly do whatever is necessary to provide emergency funding to keep group homes open until the General Assembly can meet next session and approve a long term solution.This means providing sufficient bridge funding for the first 6 months of next year (Jan.-June). Work with the Governor and House Leadership.
1) Contact Governor Perdue and ask her to call the General Assembly back to Raleigh for an emergency session to appropriate replacement funding for the revenue that Group Homes will lose as a result of the personal care services (PCS) changes made in the last session of the Legislature. Let her know how this is likely to affect you or your family member if this funding is not restored Contact information for the Governor: 116 West Jones Street, Raleigh, North Carolina 27603, Phone: (800) 662-7952 or (919) 733-2391, email: governor.office@nc.gov .
You can make a real difference by joining our grassroots advocacy efforts. Go to our website: http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=26945662&msgid=286609&act=6T7L&c=442285&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nami-wake.org%2FAdvocacy.html and learn more about this issue. You will find videos with more information issues as well as specific things you can do to help.
Please...we cannot do this alone. Everyone with severe mental illness deserves a decent and safe place to live. The state is offering no replacment housing or services for group home residents. They will be in shelters or on the streets...in hospital Emergency Rooms...in jails...or dead.
Don't let that happen. We need to work together.
Are you a member of NAMI Wake? If not, you can join by clicking here.http://www.nami-wake.org/Members.htm Questions? Email aakland@nami-wake.org.
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