Well, this is going to be a lengthy edition of our newsletter… In our September issue, with the writer’s permission, I openly shared a very painful letter that I had received. I had some hesitation in doing so, but I felt that it was time to depart from the typical vein of “disability talk” - time to give some open recognition to the very personal pain and distress that can go on in the lives of people with disabilities – particularly those with hidden disabilities and/or those, as the writer has, who fall through the cracks of our support systems.

I have been pleasantly surprised and overwhelmed by all the responses we have received from that editorial. Seemingly, the issues that it raised struck a chord with a great many readers. It is apparent that those issues deserve more “air time”. Before moving on to another topic, we are devoting this October edition to them as well. To do this, we are publishing many of the letters and comments that we received. Collectively, I believe that they drive home the issues and sentiments much more strongly than I was originally able to do. I have somewhat subjectively divided them into two main categories: 1) From the Inside – comments from folks who, on a personal level, deal with similar pain and frustration, and 2) From the Outside – comments from other perspectives.

At the end you will read a “Guest Article” from our colleague Dale Brown who puts forth an intriguing proposal for a national call center – and invites feedback from our readers.

I want to thank all of the writers for taking the time to share their thoughts and experiences with us. And, especially, I want to thank the woman who wrote us last month’s letter and gave us the occasion to draw attention to these important concerns.

- Rob McInnes

Your article in the Disability Network newsletter certainly rang true. Even though I have been more fortunate than most in that I am employed, the feelings are very similar. Every day can be a challenge just to get up and go to work with multiple disabilities. Sometimes an "invisible" disability is difficult because people do not know why you are struggling or maybe even that you are struggling. Keep up the good work.

- MaryAnn

Rob, I too experience depression and other disabilities in the workplace. I have found it important to remember that I am the who is in control of myself. I CANNOT change others I have to change myself. I have a job support person who directs me when I appear to be going astray. I have found many accommodations on my own. My employer has provided me with a head set so I don't have to be tied down to the desk when I am answering phones. I have found it very important to have a good team of doctors. I have a Psychiatrist who monitors my medications, I have a therapist whom I can talk to, I am in the Depression, Bipolar, Support Alliance Support Groups. The Web site is below.

- Mary Richards

Dear Rob,

I cried when I read this account because I've felt the same for a long time. As a part-time teacher and person with ADD and depression, I've had trouble at work and often feel as though there is no job at which I can be successful. Unfortunately, I don't have an option - I must work, and when I thought I was going to lose my job I had to fight for it or find another (the thought of which scared me into massive panic and anxiety attacks.) Support from my health care provider's mental health department consisted of prescribing Prozac after a 2 minute interview and then rebuking me for being non-compliant when I asked for another option. I, too, felt like "checking out" of this unsympathetic world. Only the faces of my children kept me in the fight.

In my district, the bureaucracy rolls over those of us who may need just a little accommodation in order to be better. They seem to feel that teachers are a dime a dozen and if you can't cut it, get out. Even when I took my case to the superintendent, who agreed that I had exemplary evaluations and years of loyal service to the district, he said he was limited in what he could do for me. Ironically, it is my special way of seeing the world that makes me able to reach some of the students everyone else has given up on - kids who, like me, have fallen through the cracks! I suspect the same is true for the woman in the article. I hope and pray she gets the support she needs.

My primary care physician was able to help me more than the psychiatrist. He helped balance my hormones and is supportive of alternative treatments for depression, anxiety and ADD, as well as being a good listener and all around great guy. My job is still up in the air on a week by week basis, and I still don't know what I should do to make a change, but at least I don't feel like "checking out" these days!

Thanks for bringing this issue out in the open!

- Sincerely, H. B. in Southern California

Hello, I am on disability and live on nerve blocks after having a three-disk lower back fusion, a two-disk neck fusion, three shoulder surgeries and two carpal tunnel surgeries from an accident. Prior to this I had run a sign shop and driven a school bus.

I can get all the help I want to go to school, but I want to get back into sign-making and vehicle-lettering business again. I am excellent at designing. The problem is that no one wants to help me become the person I really want to be with my sign shop. I can get no help from anyone. I have had to use my credit cards to get back into this field. I will hopefully make a go of it next year. I started last year and am in debt because of the startup expense.

Life has already been devastating to me. I have had to go on antidepressants and take sleeping pills and pain killers. I am one of the ones who really wants to get back into the work force again but I just get turned down everywhere. Why is there so much money for schooling, but none for someone wanting to have their own business - especially a divorced woman on her own?

I really was in touch with your article this month and sympathize with so many other disabled people. My children are grown up and I am turning 51 this month. I have a mobile home and cannot keep it up unless I work. Thank you for understanding our feelings.

- Cathy

I am lucky to be one of "fortunate" people with disabilities that are employed. Every year that passes I feel as though that distinction will be in the past. I am in an "administration" position where non-disabled people with equal levels of education are making more money and getting acknowledged for their clinical skills. I on the other hand, get dismissed every time I try to address the issue. I use a wheelchair and they don’t but they somehow are seen as "qualified" and I am not.

Our new director doesn’t have a fraction of the qualifications that I do to run the department, prepare budgets, or address department issues. They initially told me I was passed over because I only had my bachelor’s degree. When I pointed out the administrator in our Satellite office and one of our senior experienced clinicians have the same level of education, then it became a “clinical practice” issue. They keep changing the bar as a reason not to promote me or raise my salary. They continue to see me only as the paper-pusher in the wheelchair. I am okay to provide services, do trainings and interviews when no one is available but I am always last choice for advancement opportunities.

Now in addition to my 16 year old son my able bodied brother and elderly mother are moving in with me because they have no income. So now no matter what happens I have to keep my job. No matter how bad it gets I will have to suck it up and take it till I can’t work anymore, or die, whichever comes first.

- Employed and Struggling In Pittsburgh

Dear Rob,

I always look forward to receiving your newsletters and the valuable information that and inspiration that both you and Denise always share. This particular newsletter really struck home with me.

My daughter is 24 years old. She is a beautiful, intelligent, hardworking, amazing person. She is the most creative person I have ever known. She is remarkable at anything using her creative genius. Every single job she has had, without exception, she has excelled at. Every single employer has said they love her work and would like to keep her with them. Even in school she excelled at everything- winning numerous awards and achieving a straight "A" grade point average throughout school.

At the age of 15 she encountered several life altering experiences (abuse by a close family member, an attempted rape by a teacher, tormented by girls she had previously considered as friends). She felt overwhelmed and rather than turning to family for help she turned to bulimia. We were lucky in that within a relatively short period of time (and my being extremely persistent with the doctors I took her to) she was diagnosed and put into treatment. (Getting her that help is a whole other story) Throughout our battle against her bulimia she was also treated for depression. Though counseling and medication she was able to overcome the bulimia. It was determined though that she would need to stay on the antidepressants in order to keep her body chemistry in sync. She has a chemical imbalance that is the root of the depression.

Throughout college she was able to be on our medical insurance and able to stay on her medication. When college ended however she was on her own (as we have found this is a general rule with insurance companies). The job she had did not offer insurance to her, so she went out in search of work with benefits. Of course it takes 90 days for benefits to kick in with most employers. She didn't tell us, but she stopped her medication when it ran out when she couldn't pay full price for it.

She sank into a deep depression before we knew anything was wrong. She lost her job. She attempted suicide. They put her back on medication. She left the hospital, got another job. The doctor refused to renew the prescription because she had no insurance. She once again was off the meds and back into depression and lost another job. For two years there was a constant battle to get her the medication she needs. Each time she stops taking the medication her body reacts with deep depression. When she is put back on it, her body takes a full month to stabilize again. She has gone through at least a dozen doctors and can't hold a job, not because she can't do the work, but because her body chemistry is constantly up and down and when she falls into depression she can't force herself out of bed and into work.

Because she doesn't live with me I don't know until the meds are stopped that anything is wrong (one of her passions is acting- she is very good at making you feel all is well). I have told her time and again to tell me beforehand if she needs help. She always seems to think that this time will be different and that she can handle it. She has been in this vicious cycle and it's almost impossible to pull her out. We have tried to get insurance for her in every way imaginable.

Federal laws are such now that because of her age there are no health benefits available to her - nothing at all. We applied for everything out there. She needs to gain insurance through work, but without meds she can't work long enough to get insurance (90 days plus a month for the meds to kick in and help her feel good). It's a horrible cycle to be caught in. I strongly feel something needs to be done to provide insurance to people like my daughter who are in this age bracket that now disqualifies them. She can succeed if she can get the help she needs. I know there are many other people in similar situations.

Happily for my daughter she met a wonderful man two years ago who loves her for who she is. He also has a creative side that they share. They were married last spring and she is now on his medical insurance. She has the medication she needs and is back in school studying to become a nurse (but still pursuing her creative side!). He makes sure that she refills her prescriptions and doesn't allow it to lapse. I see her living now as the person I always knew she could be. She's happy. I know her battle isn't over, but she now has a chance.

I know there are a lot of people out there in similar situations, suffering from depression and unable to get the medication that could help them to lead productive, meaningful lives, but penalized because they are the wrong age to qualify for government help. If there is a way to get help it is much too difficult to find. We made this our mission for two years and were not able to find a way. I strongly feel more needs to be done to help and if help is available a way to make it easier for people to find and utilize. People who are suffering from severe depression are not in a situation that allows them to take initiative to make things happen. And if they are over 18 years of age no one else can get help for them without their consent, which they won't give because they are depressed and unable to cope. Unless you can prove they are a risk to themselves or others, which isn't as easy as it sounds. The sad part it with the proper help they can lead productive lives.

I appreciate your taking the time to read this. I felt so strongly about it I had to write to you. Thank you again.

- Anonymous Reader

Thank you so much for your comments. As we enter into October the month we should be celebrating Disability Employment Awareness Month there is very little this community has to celebrate about.

I have dedicated the last fifteen years of my life to the issue of the employment of qualified men and women with disabilities. People with disabilities that enter into the job market face a system that is broken. On the corporate side most Human Resource Staff have no training as it pertains to employing or interviewing people with disabilities, no office supply superstores carry accessible equipment, the transportation system for this community is a failure and most people who interact with a disabled individual focus on the disability and not the qualifications or abilities.

Those most often charged with providing the necessary skills needed for competitive employment are not- for-profit agencies that are poorly funded, training people for jobs that are antiquated, and have staff that have very little corporate experience. From one organization to another there are no standards or consistency in the way job developers provide services to men and women with disabilities.

The unemployment rate for the disabled community is ten times higher than any other minority community in this country. There are many corporations that truly make a positive difference in the lives of people with disabilities; they are the exception not the rule. The disabled community has a spending power of 225 billion dollars and until that is transferred into a message to corporate America, that this money will be driven to solid corporate citizens that employ men and women with disabilities nothing is going to change. - Jeffrey Klare, CEO, Hire Disability Solutions, New York, NY

I read your article on Falling through the Cracks. It made me feel sad and I know it happens more often than we acknowledge. It is great to hear all the good stories but we need to hear about the other side. Thank you.

- Donna, Alberta, Canada

Dear Rob,

A pertinent, timely and relevant article.

Far too often, the American economy, as represented by its workplaces, still shows an unfriendly face to folks with disabilities. In the life of too many people with disabilities, American Dream seems to have been unaffected by the ADA - remaining both inaccessible and unaccommodating.

The sad and glaring truth is that there are a lot of people throughout every community on the continent who are being crushed financially and spiritually, because their disability is being met with prejudice and unresponsive workplace practices and policies. These are people whose lives are falling apart and who can find no (or ineffective) help and support from organizations in their communities. They are the people who "fall through the cracks" in the social service systems. and they are experiencing how lonely and terrifying life in the cracks really is.

Inaccessible and unaccommodating - despite the stories that companies will tell on their websites and in interviews, too many companies do not have a diverse workforce that includes people with disabilities or they have employees with disabilities who have not disclosed their disability. If the ADA is to have an impact it is essential that every business (not some, not volunteers, not those who think it is a good idea) should be held accountable via the law to provide "equal" opportunity.

Case in point: when a disabled person accomplishes athletic deeds such as running a marathon, climbing a mountain, playing football, etc. the world stands in awe. What they cannot seem to fathom is that these same people can also work as effectively, efficiently and with as much creative power as everyone else.

The point that the greater society seems to be missing is twofold: 1) Nobody volunteers to be disabled. There is not a single person in the disability community who chose of their own free will to join. Circumstances, an accident or an illness or all of the preceding occurred in their life. Now, they are disabled. It can happen to anyone at anytime. It happens every single day in communities just like yours. It happens to friends, relatives, neighbors and family members.

2) You are disabled in place. Wherever you are is where you are disabled. It does not come at a convenient time, in a convenient place or with enough warning to allow you to prepare for the life alterations. Yes, my disability makes me different but I am still as human as every other person on the planet. I still want to dream, live, love and laugh. I can do that. I would like to do that in a society where it is not necessary to prove to anyone that I have these desires. Respect is a right.

The new Pope has said: "We are not some casual or meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary". Does our society treat us as necessary? Do we treat each other as necessary? Our answers to those two questions determine our future.

- Barney Mayse, The Whole Person, Inc., Prairie Village, KS

I was impressed that you broached this subject and handled it so tactfully. Too many times we forget about the people with disabilities who are in dire straights and want to only focus on the "beautiful" and "bright" people with disabilities. It takes me back to my United Cerebral Palsy Association Telethon days when they only wanted people who were "camera friendly" and "able to articulate well". We need to look as a group to be inclusive of all in the grand vision. In my opinion, there has long been a silent hierarchy among people with disabilities with people with psychiatric disabilities being relegated to the lower tier. How can we ask the people without disabilities to be inclusive of us when we can not even be inclusive amongst ourselves? Great article and subject to build on.

- Shayn R. Anderson, Diversity Inclusion, Lodi, CA

Thank you for the great article; it raised my level of awareness regarding the every day struggles of the disabled. While I work with many disabled in my role as a career counselor at the local community college, I don’t get to see/hear the level of despair that I am sure some of my clients feel as the try to “make it” in the world of work. Thanks again for reminding me of the need to be sensitive to those feelings that are “behind the mask”.

- John Cornman, Career Counselor, Greenfield, MA

I’ve just read your article “Disability Employment Awareness” in your September newsletter, and was struck by the call to “start a campaign to stop the abuse of people because they are different.” With that call in mind, I am taking this opportunity to introduce you and your colleagues to an organization located in London, Ontario, Canada. We are called Network To Learning, or NTL. At the beginning of this year, NTL undertook an initiative called LD Edge, aimed at making London and area into a showcase of accessibility for people with learning disabilities. But London is just the starting place; we would like to see this idea spread and grow where ever it can be put into action.

By Dale S. Brown, Author

When I worked for the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities and Department of Labor, we used to receive thousands of e-mails, calls, and letters such as the disquieting one that you featured.

Like many of my colleagues, I worked hard to help them. Unfortunately, we did not have time to talk on the telephone with hundreds of these people. We had policy and program responsibilities. As a result of my experience, I thought of a program that could help these people.

Let's develop a national call center to work with job seekers with disabilities. It would be similar to the Job Accommodation Network (JAN) in that skilled professionals would answer the phones and letters. But, unlike JAN, the professionals would not limit themselves to accommodation issues.

The professionals would counsel:

* people who are facing discrimination on the job who might be helped to keep them.

* people who are job seeking and facing sustained rejection

* people who want to work but are facing disability specific barriers such as benefit issues and scheduling needs.

The call center would have the basic role of connecting people to the resources that should help them, such as their disability navigator, their one-stop center, and of course, vocational rehabilitation. But, in many cases, the system does not work and a simple referral is not enough. In those cases, the counselor would continue to help the caller find other resources, advocate for themselves, or resolve the problem in a creative way.

For a large part of my federal career, I personally helped everyone that called us. Several people, such as Glen Young, a national advocate in the field of learning disabilities who lets me use his story, claim that my intervention led to success.

What did I do? I listened to them. After I referred them, I found out how the referral worked. When it didn't work, I would advocate for them. So if they got nowhere with vocational rehabilitation, for example, I would listen to their story, suggest another approach, and sometimes suggest they talk to client assistance. If that didn't work, I would start working with them on the consumer groups in the area.

Many people actually found jobs! Some people started advocacy campaigns or volunteered. The caring intervention of one person makes a major difference. But, unfortunately, caring neighbors and family members are not always available within our current fraying social fabric. The loss of "social capital" in our country has been well documented.

People who are not conversant with the system do not know which door to knock on, what to say, and how to articulate their needs.

A national call center would enable the disability community to keep records- and document the "cracks." If everyone from state X can't get services from Y, what does that tell us? We would end up with a powerful argument for more and better services.

I also think that a large proportion of job seekers are willing to move to find jobs. And many people have exhausted their local service providers and need a fresh look at their situation.

I worked within the system to make this idea reality while I worked at the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities and Office of Disability Employment Policy. EARN was created, partially as a result of my advocacy. But the idea was changed significantly from my original proposal of an Employer Applicant Referral Network to a center that only helps employers.

(Dale Brown works in Washington D.C. as an author, speaker, and strategic leadership consultant. Her most recent book, “Steps to Independence for People with Learning Disabilities”, was newly revised and updated in 2005. She coauthored “Job-Hunting for the So-Called Handicapped or People who have Disabilities” with Richard Nelson Bolles and Dale has written three other books; “Employment and People with Learning Disabilities”, “I Know I Can Climb the Mountain” and “Learning a Living”.)

The Americans with Disabilities Act protects not only people with disabilities from discriminatory practices in the workplace, but also those who are associated with or related to a person with a disability. As an example, employers cannot choose not to hire someone because their spouse has a disability (and the employer thinks this responsibility may detract from the person’s performance on the job). The U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission has published a Fact Sheet to explain these provisions.

Two programs of the United States government were established almost 70 years ago to provide employment opportunities for people with disabilities are being called into question by a recent Senate investigation. Under the The Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act and the Randolph-Sheppard Act, government contracts are “set aside” for companies either owner by people who are blind or companies that primarily employ people with disabilities. Combined, the contracts are worth over $1 billion annually. Among other concerns, the repot asserts that of approximately 7000 people employed under the program for blind business owners, less than 10% have any kind of disability. Further, many executive salaries were reported in the range of $350k to $700k.

The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), through partnerships with Microsoft Corporation and the Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation, offers two internship opportunities for college students with disabilities for summer 2006 – the Congressional Internship Program and the Federal Information Technology (I.T.) Internship Program. Application deadlines: December 12, 2005.

The American Bar Association Commission on Mental & Physical Disability Law has a Mentor Program for law students with disabilities. The program is open to law students with all types of disabilities, including learning disabilities. We match law students with practicing attorneys, taking into account the students’ interest in being matched with lawyers who have disabilities, the types of disabilities, geographical location and practice areas of interest. The Commission’s website is well worth the visit for updates on disability laws, listings of disability attorneys and details on the Mentors program.

Three new Fact Sheets are available from the United States Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy. They have recently released “Diverse Perspectives: People with Disabilities Fulfilling Your Business Goals”, “Focus on Ability: Interviewing Applicants with Disabilities” and “Employment Laws: Disability & Discrimination”. Links to these fact sheets can be found on their website.

In their recently-released 2004 Disability Status Report, Cornell University indicates that the employment rates of working-age people (ages 21-64) with disabilities in the United States, showed a measurable decrease from 2003 to 2004. This and other interesting statistical findings on employment and disability are contained in the report.

Canada’s National Education Association of Disabled Students (NEADS) has partnered with MuchMoreMusic in creating the annual MuchMoreMusic AccessAbility Scholarship. The scholarship will award $3,000 (CDN) to an applicant with a permanent disability who best demonstrates skill, talent, excellence and enthusiasm in pursuing a future in the broadcast industry.

The U. S. Secretary of Labor’s New Freedom Initiative Award recognizes non-profits, small businesses, corporations and individuals that have demonstrated exemplary and innovative efforts in furthering the employment and workplace environment for people with disabilities. The 2005 Awards have been announced. Non-Profit Awardees: Breaking New Ground (West Lafayette, Indiana), Center of Vocational Alternatives (Columbus, Ohio) and InspiriTec (Philadephia, Pennsylvania). Business Awardees: Computer Sciences Corporation (Falls Church, VA), Merck & Co., Inc. (Whitehouse Station, New Jersey) and TecAccess (Rockville, Virginia). Individual Awardee: Jim Westall (Port Townsend, Washington).

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The 2006 Multicultural Calendars are now available. This year's timely theme is “Global Visions of Peace” - featuring twelve engaging expressions of peace - the work of artists from around the globe. A wonderful resource for workforce diversity, the calendar includes over 450 Holy Days/Festivals.

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Join us for a conference designed especially for you and your organization: Keynote speakers covering the spectrum of supported employment, quality of life, and social policy; Two business panels moderated by a prominent International business leader; Nine concurrent sessions featuring a variety of best practices, self-advocate perspectives and business viewpoints; As well as two evenings of exceptional entertainment.

December 12 - 14, 2005 - Baltimore, MD

This year marks the 15th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This landmark legislation initiated an historic opening of transportation and other public facilities to persons with disabilities. The ADA recognizes that transportation is a critical link in accessibility. Along with the Air Carrier Access Act, ADA law requires equal access for all to our Nation’s diverse modes of transportation. The United States Department of Transportation, the Federal Aviation Administration, the American Association of Airport Executives, the Airport Minority Advisory Council, and Diversity Partners are pleased to present the first Universal Access in Travel: Symposium and Exposition. This unique forum is designed to provide a highly informative and educational forum for the leaders in today’s travel and tourism industry to understand the needs of a growing segment of today’s traveling population.

March 20-25, 2006: Los Angeles, CA

“Technology and Persons with Disabilities”

This is a comprehensive, international conference, where all technologies across all ages; disabilities; levels of education and training; employment; and independent living are addressed. It is the largest conference of its kind!

San Diego, California: July 18-22, 2006

"Charting the Course for Change"

The annual international AHEAD conference brings together professionals in the fields of higher education and disability for a week of information-sharing, networking and theoretical and practical training.

I am a 58 year old disabled woman and my adopted eight year old son and I live on $754. per month. I need to go to work to help pay the bills. My mortgage is $375. a month and my car payment (only because I was in a car accident which totaled my old reliable car.) of $250.00 per month takes all of our money. I've contacted Social Security and they tell me that I can only make $85.00 per month before I lose my SSI. My SSI is only $22.00 per month but the benefits of my medical are so important. How can I go to work, even part time and still keep all my medical benefits? Is there any way I can make over $85.00 a month without losing my medical? I don't understand this when a person is willing to try to work and than gets punished for making over $85.00 a month. Thank you in advance for any information that you may be able to give me.

If anybody has any ideas for the hospitality industry (hotels, airlines, airports, government agencies) pertaining to people with disabilities in travel and would like to present them at an upcoming (December) conference please contact me immediately. I look forward to hearing from you. Regards, Adrian Guglielmo

I have a question. How can someone who has spondylolisthesis-5th vertebra work when you have pain in your back and you can't stand for every long or sit because of the pain it brings when doing this. I had to quit my job because of this and I am having to fight to get disability. I hope this time I can get it. It is hard for me to work if I can't get disability. What do you do when this happens? - Mary

I am looking for statistics information on deaf and hard of hearing who graduated from deaf school or mainstream program. I want to see the difference between those two groups. Also I want to know what percentage of all deaf and hard of hearing are unemployed for more than a year or five years? How many of them using ASL, American Sign Language, as first language? What percentage of deaf and hard of hearing went to college right after high school or after a few frustrating years working in poorly paid jobs? Please do not include those who lost their hearing after graduated from public school or years of working in noise workplace or part of growing old. When I say statistic information, I prefer statistical information presented in pie or bar charts with a brief explanations.

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