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B. Scott Burch, SSG, USA, Retired, B.S., ORDM, CART
TENNESSEE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PHONE NUMBERS
Welcome to SCOTT BURCH's Advocacy Webpage
HELP VERIFY
Please help me to verify that the Tennessee page listing all the Justice and safety centers for domestic violence has been updated to include all centers in the state.
WORST STATE
Tennessee to be known as one of the worst states when it comes to domestic violence is difficult to believe. The chart above shows we have 11 hotlines across the state to address this issue.
About THIS PAGE
This page contains information at the national, international, federal, local, and state levels, on organizations that are engaged in offering programs, funding, information, protection, advocacy, and/or services relating to protection, advocacy, and prevention of:
MALTREATMENT, NEGLECT, ABUSE, AND FINANCIAL EXPLOITATION OF THE VULNERABLE, DISABLED, AND ELDERLY.
This page brings together many downloadable documents that are available on relating organization websites, making it easy and convenient to select ones that interest you the most without having to search for, research, or manually navigate through hundreds of websites. It will help you gain a quick understanding of the complex, overall system and structure by identifying key players, who administers and receives grants and restrictions to eligibility and qualifications that were placed upon it.
Hundreds of small 'snap shots' have been taken, usually no more than a particular section, a paragraph, or a couple of sentences and rarely of an entire page, across hundreds of websites to create and bring together a 'stream' of information in a logical, sequential way from different sources, which can be viewed by simply scrolling through one document versus clicking on hundreds of tiny files or going to the various websites for that information.
When a file is downloaded from either Dropbox or Google, the created and modified date may be changed to the download date. You can use a third-party program to use the existing QuickTime date and overwrite the date created/modified dates.
I have conducted extensive and time-consuming research. The following link will give access to most key players in the field of Protection & Advocacy. for the Disabled and Elderly. This also includes programs that each offer.
PROTECTION & ADVOCACY (P&A) & PROGRAMS (PA&P)
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PERSONAL COST AND SACRIFICE
In my quest to gather this information and place in a sequential order and presentation, hours of phone calls and conversations, has taken every bit of my time over the course of several months whereby other important, no matter how important, was given no attention - there was no time. This information has come at a great and considerable sacrifice and cost - not to just myself, but to those of whom I wasn't available and who depended upon me for some type of response or action to avoid a loss on their end. It has come as a sacrifice to health for more than just my own.
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Welcome to SCOTT BURCH Advocacy Webpage
MY ADVOCACY GOAL
I am an active advocate in the rescue, promotion, and expansion of rights of the disabled for programs and services to recognize and include all disabilities that is included and protected by the ADA. When services are denied by placing conditions and limitations or additional eligibility requirements, choosing to help some but not others, is a form of discrimination that blocks and prevents access and participation. In terms of taking a report, failure to forward reports to appropriate authority cuts off access to law enforcement, district attorney's office, and the State Attorney General, who should, by all accounts, have the right to at least view a report, and make his own independent decision that could over-ride APS failure to investigate. The AG and district attorneys have authority to investigate and has his own multi-disciplinary team at his disposal.
Using the definition of Disabled by the AOA and the disabilities covered by the American Disability Act (ADA). I want Protection and Advocacy (P&A) programs at the federal and state levels to recognize and include this unserved category of persons. I would like to see state APS, across the nation, to be streamlined, and adopt the national APS voluntary consensus guidelines, expand and include ALL disabilities that are currently recognized by the ADA and the EEOC.
SECTION 3
ACL, the Administration on Community Living, was created to provide programs and services to the aging and disabled community. Under ACL, there is the Administration on Aging (AoA) and the Administration on Disability (AoD). For programs applying to both, I suggest putting them under an "Administration of Aging and Disability (AoAD)". Many AoA programs now include the disabled and most have been renamed to make that distinction. It would be a good gesture for the AAAs to rename to AAAD to cause and effect a person with a disability to feel included and welcome, unless they are not.
I have no knowledge or experience working with handicapped or special ed disabled people nor have I been around them. I wouldn't know the effect on capacity, training, and resources, I don't know the impact upon centers, organizations, or programs, if any, when and if they were included. Same goes for expanding to include those who are psychologically disabled.
Senior Centers are not part of ACL but it does provide some amount of funding for the programs it can offer. Though not required, consider these things to align with ACL's mission and purpose since its inception in 2012:
1. Senior centers to change their name to "Senior and Disabled Centers",
2. Senior centers to include, welcome and accept disabled
3. A "County Office on Aging" to include disabled and change its name to "County Office on Aging and Disability".
Does AAAs and AAADs, under ACL, provide a place for the aging or disabled to gather, socialize, and meet? Yes, the Centers for Independent Living do, however, there are not very many in rural areas (small towns).
What is the impact or what happens, now that, ACL AAADs include disabled persons but senior centers, who have no obligation, requirement, or expectation to include them doesn't?
In response to my research so far, I believe that it would be great if all AAA's were to change their name to AAAD in order to be in acceptance and alignment of the current ACL mission and purpose. The administration has been too nice for too long. ACL has asked all AAA's to begin including and incorporating the disabled community and, by all appearances, seem to resist that idea. It is disheartening. If those AAA's and the programs, including ACL AAA AoL Programs that hasn't yet converted to AAAD, meaning there is also a resistance at the national ACL level as well. If your AAA doesn't want to include those with disabilities, then please petition ACL to clearly divide its offices and programs between AoA and AoD. In other words, not have programs for aging and disabled under AoA. I'm saying but may not be the answer.
I have a very chronic, severe disability that makes it very difficult and challenging just to sit here - and the level pain, loss of concentration, loss of opportunity, having to depend on others to leave the house (in most cases), requiring the assistance of others for daily basic needs, defective implants, loose screws, plastic surgeries, scars, and so on. The fact is, in comparison to someone who is in no pain, has support, but yet disabled may have the same level of difficulty and challenges as myself. You don't know my experience, that is why the social security administration (I'm not on or receiving SSDI/SSI) is enforcing practitioner's and those who work with the disabled to begin putting the disabled person him or herself in the center and become the focus. That entails getting to know the person and learning how their disabilities and limitations that are created by having that disability affects their lives, allowing them to be more in control in decision making, selecting their most needed modality of treatments (the VA is taking the same approach), encouraging and requiring those who are IDD/DD disabled to not be isolated into their own communities. They have to engage, encourage, support, and expand their social lives. The administrations, both VA and SSA, and the Courts have determined that the isolation, over-protection, and segregation of the disabled is a violation of their constitutional rights.
However, if society, while this change is being made, doesn't make or take any added efforts to welcome, accept, invite, include, etc. the disabled, or to let them know, if and only by their name, that they are part of, and with some adjustments, can be included, then they will shy away and the dreadful, uneventful, isolation will continue, no matter the efforts of the federal agencies, that is, the SSA, VA, and ACL.
Many are "dead set" on saying that an act says or instructs or that congress intended to leave certain people out or that the programs must focus on certain individuals. I challenge you to look closely at this to validate whether it true by reading the act, deciding for yourself the legislative intent, and researching case precedence. If you believe that any of the program directors, those in charge of conducting surveys and studies, those distributing information, are unlawfully, illegally, unfairly, excluding those who you believe, by all-rights, regardless of funding/lack of funding/funding shortages/shortage of employees/personnel/shortage of resources/etc., should have equal access and be included, then please stand up and advocate for that. If there are categories of people who are the ACTUAL UNDERSERVED OR UNSERVED who are excluded, let congress know, there are organizations whose advocacy is just for that purpose, and congress can place funds where funding is needed.
It's strange that ACL will say that the CILs primary focus are those who are unserved or underserved, which have been identified as the centers in rural areas with low incomes as being the most deserving. And to support this, there is a national association for Rural CILs to provide additional administrative and other supports to meet that objective. There is only one rural CIL in Tennessee, and it's located in Paris. When you look at the funding allocation, it was the center receiving the least amount of funding.
HHS ASL AOD OILP ILS & CIL ILP NIDILRR ILRU RTC/IL NCIL SILC
WHAT NEEDS TO BE THE FOCUS:
So far, awareness and education, by far, need to focus on:
Explaining and demonstrating how a person gains control over another that's methodical and easy to grasp because in their lives and experience of life, this hasn't happened to them. They haven't been in such a situation and haven't had to consider that point of view. But, once explained, it's then understandable and easy to grasp.
We have right here, in this great state, the best model family safety center in existence. Get the word out to the remaining justice centers. Once done, Tennessee will be in the lead. Most noteworthy, is their definition of domestic violence which is the most inclusive and updated definition I've seen. For the most part, domestic violence is viewed in a very narrow perspective. I encourage you to visit their website and if you believe as I, recommend them for a national award for their work. They deserve it.
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