ICOIL State Plan Public Hearings....or are they VR Public

I sent the following message today to all Indiana Council on Independent
Living members.  This is just more evidence of the tragedy that is
ICOIL.  You can see the website I am referencing at
http://www.in.gov/fssa.  Click on calendar and go to February.  You will
see that instead of the state plan public hearings being listed under
ICOIL, they are listed under Vocational Rehabilitation Services Public
Hearing.

>>> Jodi James 01/05/07 4:34 PM >>>
Today I looked on the FSSA web site to find out when the State Plan
public hearings would be so that I can inform members of my community. 

 
When looking at the calendar, I did not see anything labeled Indiana
Council on Independent Living or ICOIL as is usually the case when we
advertise one of our meetings.  What I did see was Vocational
Rehabilitation Services Public Hearing.  I thought to myself, "Surely
it's not listed under that!  How would people know it's for the Indiana
Statewide Independent Living Council?"  But sure enough, I click on it
and after reading Indiana Family and Social Services Administration
Vocational Rehabilitation Services in bold, then it states that this has
to do with ICOIL.  Huh??  How are people supposed to find this even if
they know to look on this website?  To me, this implies that we fall
under this agency, which, of course, the whole council knows is against
the law.  This is the exact thing that RSA dinged us on in the 2002
Report of Findings that no one wants to read or talk about!  Amazing
that someone who had read this report would even think about putting Voc
Rehab in the heading of a SILC public hearing!
 
You need to market these differently so that people know what exactly
these hearings are for.  If I didn't know what I was looking at, I think
one could easily misread this and think it is a public hearing for the
Vocational Rehabilitation State Plan which is a whole other animal.
 
Jodi James