What would be the best approach to prevent losing funding of Homemakers in Us/state rehab services? Who do we protest to? Our state rehab service is treating the problem of clients receiving rehab services as going with the regulations which they understand to exist which will exclude anyone who was classified as a homemaker. If a vr client has multiple disabilities, there seems to be a way around to allow them to be served. However, anyone who is under 55 and doesn't have multiple disabilities seem to have no training options under the current regulations. And it seems to me that people who are in these agencies are just going along with the changes. In Michigan, the governor initially wanted to combine the services for the blind with all other rehabilitation services so that blindness would get no separate funding. That got tabled. It has always been more difficult to get services for older blind and homemakers because they weren't going back into competative employment. Now it is getting worse and as a rehab therapist, all people who are blind/low vision (legally blind) need to have personal adjustment/skills of blindness training no matter whether they are going to work or not. I know I'm probably preaching to the choir. But, I have look at what has happened since I was a young person and between then and now. People are getting less and less services than they used to if they don't fit into a certain age group and ability to be in competative employment. Is this fair? Should all people benefit from quality rehab services or do a chosen few get the rehabilitation services they need to be successful in living their lives to their full potential (whatever that is)? Again, where do we start and who should we talk to? Thank You, Marcie Brink-Chaney CVRT Visually Impaired Services Detroit Receiving Hospital University Health Center Detroit Medical Center Phone: (313)745-4131 Email: mbrink-c@dmc.org<mailto:mbrink-c@dmc.org> This message (including any attachments) is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete the message (including any attachments) and notify the originator that you received the message in error. Any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifies and with authority, states them to be the views of Tenet Healthcare Corporation.