Partnership and Alliance Committee
2006-2007 Committee Goals


This Committee is charged with identifying and cultivating relationships with our rehabilitation partners on the local, regional, and national level to enhance consideration of, and deliberation on, issues affecting the actual direct delivery of rehabilitation services by the State-Federal Rehabilitation Program.

GOALS:
1. Continue outreach to other potential partners in the disability community.

2. Develop ways of continuing the relationships which we can form with potential partners and alliances.

STRATEGIES:
1. During the CSAVR Fall Training Conference, identify groups from the local/regional area who can present to CSAVR’s Committee; this would allow these groups to learn about CSAVR and for us to engage them in our Committee.

2. What ever contacts we make in the fall need to be carried forward to our Spring Conference with an opportunity to begin an active relationship. This can be done if we use this Committee to participate in an ongoing fashion with “new” partners.

Committee Members:

Allen Harris
Committee Chair
Iowa Dept for the Blind
524 Fourth Street
Des Moines, IA 50309-2364
515-281-1334
515-281-1263 FAX
harris.allen@blind.state.ia.us

Alan Sylvestre, SRC Chair
Department of Labor
200 Folly Brook Boulevard
Wethersfield, Connecticut 06109
Telephone 860-263-6743
Fax 860-263-6216
Alan.sylvestre@po.state.ct.us

Mary Burgard
Board of Education and Services for the Blind
184 Windsor Avenue
Windsor, Connecticut 06095
Telephone 860-602-4032
Fax 860-602-4030

Steve Wooderson
Iowa Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services
510 East 12th Street
Des Moines, Iowa 50319
Telephone 515-281-4140
Fax 515-281-4703
swooderson@dvrs.state.ia.us

Sue Payne
Idaho Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
650 W. State St. Room 150
Boise, Idaho 83720-0096
Telephone 208-334-3390, ext 110
Fax 208-334-5305
Spayne@idvr.state.id.us

Raymond Hopkins
3535 NW 58th, Suite 500
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73112
Telephone 405-951-3494
Fax 405-951-3529
rehopkins@drs.state.ok.us

Mary Wolfe
4900 North Lamar
Austin, Texas 78751-2399
Telephone 512-424-4773
Fax 512-424-4277
Mary.Wolfe@rehab.state.tx.us

Wanda Gier
Disability Services Division - Voc Rehab
600 S 2nd St Ste 1B
Bismarck, ND 58504-5729
sogiew@state.nd.us

(701) 328-8955
Fax: 701-328-8969

Linda Prozonic
Department of Labor
Rehabilitation Services
Vocational Rehabilitation Program
1700 Century Circle, Suite 300
Atlanta, GA 30345

(404) 235-0155
(404) 486-0197
linda.prozonic@dol.state.ga.us

Natalie Wagner
MDRS
P. O. Box 1698, Jackson, MS 39215-1698
Phone: 601-853-5162
Fax: 601-853-5205
nwagner@mdrs.state.ms.us

William Rome
Louisiana Rehabilitation Sevices
8225 Florida Boulevard
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70806
Telephone 225-925-4163
Fax 225-925-4184
brome@dss.state.la.us

James G. Taylor
397 Azalea Avenue
Richmond, Virginia 23227
Telephone 804-371-3111
Fax 804-371-3351
taylorig@dbvi.state.va.us

Barbara Madrigal
Texas Commission for the Blind
4800 North Lamar, Suite 320
Austin, Texas 78756
Telephone 512-377-0602
Fax 512-377-0682
Barbara.J.Madrigal@tcb.state.tx.us

Clarinda Unger
3024 Dupont Circle
Jefferson City, Missouri 65109
Telephone 573-526-7006
Fax 573-751-1441
cunger@vr.dese.state.mo.us

Barbara Lewis
1616 Brookwood Drive
Little Rock, Arkansas 72202
Telephone 501-296-1609
Fax 501-296-1655
BJL@ars.state.ar.us

Michael K. Meadows
Division of Rehabilitation Services
State Capitol, PO Box 50890
Charleston, West Virginia 25305-0890
Telephone 304-766-4606
Fax 304-766-4989
michaelm@mail,drs.state.wv.us

Polly Huston
2301 Argonne Dr.
Baltimore, Maryland 21218
Telephone 410-554-9437
Fax 410-554-9384
phuston@dors.state.md.us

Susan Sherman
Department of Labor
Rehabilitation Services
Vocational Rehabilitation Program
1700 Century Circle, Suite 300
Atlanta, Georgia 30345
Telephone 404-235-0143
Fax 404-486-0197
sgsherman@dol.state.ga.us

Joyce Shelby, SRC Chair
9801 N.E. 30th Street
Spencer, Oklahoma 73084
Telephone 405-769-2144

Patrick Cannon
Michigan Blind Agency

Frank Coco
VESID, New York State Education Department, 16th Floor, One Commerce Plaza, Albany, NY 12234
Telephone No.: 518: 474-1658
fcoco@mail.nysed.gov

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