Alert: Disability Rights Wisconsin Listening Session in Milwaukee
Posted by DAWN at 2:42 PM
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What: The Board of Directors of Disability Rights Wisconsin (DRW) will be holding a Listening Session in Milwaukee. The DRW Board wants to hear from people with disabilities, their families, friends, disability activists, service providers and other concerned individuals about your ideas for the future of disability advocacy and the issues that need to be addressed in the areas of special education, developmental disability, mental health and physical disability services and disability rights.
When: Friday, September 12, 2008 from 4:30 to 6:30 PM.
Where: Courtyard by Marriott Hotel in Downtown Milwaukee, 300 West Michigan Street.
Accommodations: Please contact Linda Apple at 608-267-0214 or email at:
applel@drwi.org if you need an accommodation or language translation to participate.
Questions: Call 800-928-8778 (Statewide Voice) or 414-773-4646 (Local
Voice) or 888-758-6049 TTY.
More: DRW is the designated protection and advocacy agency for people with developmental, physical, or sensory disabilities, and people with mental illness in Wisconsin.
DRW engages in a variety of advocacy strategies, including one-on-one advocacy for individuals and their families; systems advocacy (influencing state and county policy, legislative advocacy and coalition building); class action and other legal action; and providing training to people with disabilities, their family members, human service professionals, attorneys and others on a variety of disability related
topics.
Frank Wocking wrote on 09/15/08 12:01 PM
This is Frank W.I haven't talked to Matt Banaszynski from Nygren's office since April but I have a question for you about disability. I emailed Matt back in April about getting denied disability after only 20 days of applying and Matt told me to contact Ashley Ramaker at Kagen's office. I filed for the re-determination paper work with the assistance of Ashley Ramaker, who Matt told me to contact since she would be able to expedite my case. I have gone through several back injections and Madison sent my specialist some paper work to fill out. My specialist started to fill out the paper work from Madison and got frustrated and said "enough of this", I'm going to send you for a Functional Capacity Evaluation test and that Madison cannot refute or dispute it and it was reassuring when he said he has done this in cases as severe as mine and that after that test, he would sign my permanent disability papers. It was suppose to be 3 hrs on July 14th and 2 hrs on July 15th. I only made it an hr and one half the first day and was in severe pain. I had an appointment with my specialist (Dr. VanDorp, Prevea Clinic, Green Bay, WI, Phone: 1-888-277-3832) the same day at 3:00 and he said he didn't expect me to make it through the first day with the condition my back was in and that now he would sign my permanent disability paper work and that since I went for that test, Madison could not dispute it or refute it and that he has done that several times in cases as bad as mine. The bottom line is I got denied my re-determination even though my back is inoperable due to genetics and I am currently on the Fentanyl patch. I talked to Ashley after I got the letter of denial last Monday and proceeded to fill out the on-line paper work for the hearing. I talked to Ashley and she said they are backed up to some cases from 2007 and that they have some judges in from California helping out Wisconsin. I am on the verge of getting evicted and my stress level is off the scale. Now, I have to wait for a hearing which I don't think Ashley can expedite and I don't understand how Madison could refuse me an approval since there is nothing that can be done except for wearing the Fentanyl pain patch for the rest of my life. Can you help me out in any way? If you can help me out I would greatly appreciate it. You can send me a medical release form, like Ashley did in word format that I signed and faxed to her, and I would be willing to sign that for you. I am not like some people that I have heard about that are getting disability when they are capable of working. I have worked consistently since I was 14 yrs old, even though I'm 49 now and I would like nothing better than to return to my job but that is not an option. Please help me out. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Frank W.