Supporters for ACA Advocacy Workshop
Tony Barr
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Supporters for ACA Advocacy Workshop
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Tony Barr
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12/14/2001
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Phil, I have to differ with your below suggestion.
The issue of encouraging ACA to support advocacy issues and a Advocacy Workshop is the responsibility of both the profession and consumer. Most of all it is ACA's responsibility to listen to their members and amputees whom may not be members since they are obligated as a condition of federal funding.
Three ACA regional Representatives have offered their support.
The President of the NAAOP has offered his support.
The NEW Academy members have offered their support perhaps the NEW Academy leadership will too!
The Academy's mission statement is to promote patient advocacy and high standards in patient care through education,literature and research. A natural fit for them to help ACA address and support advocacy issues with ACA.
I hope that ACA feels that the overall support we are receiving for them to schedule Advocacy Workshop has merit particularly because the support is from all sources of advocacy!
We would like to work within the system if at all possible.
We still await ACA's decision to schedule the workshops in spite of all the support we have recieved to have them.
Law makers would like to see both interested parties in agreement for them to promote new policies and laws.
The overwhelming support for a ACA Advocacy Workshop is provided by consumer and professional and their own ACA Regional Representatives.
The supply (practitioners) and demand (consumers) sides of the equation are required to accomplish advocacy goals.
It is not the profession that are opposed to supporting proper licensed and affordable prosthetic care nor the consumers of such services.
Please don't encourage ACA leadership to run from their responsibility by suggesting an amputee only board and Advocacy Committee Workshop or a token Town Hall Meeting instead of a Advocacy Workshop at their Symposium.
Tony Barr
----- Original Message -----
From: Philip P Tamoush
To: Amputee Information Network
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: Current List of Volunteers and Supporters for ACA Advocacy Workshop
Jeff: Thank you for your comments, which mirror my own. I am on the Board of ACA, but would much prefer to see a separate committee or even organization involving amputees only to do separate advocacy issues. ACA is the best way to educate and inform, and the help of non-amputee organizations and individuals has been great in this way, but I bet if amputees alone got together in a separate room (as hopefully they will this summer at the ACA conference in the Advocacy workshop)the advocacy agenda would come out very different. I don't mean that non-amputees or O&P orgs. and companies should not be aware, but they certainly should not call the shots. Best wishes. Phil Tamoush
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 02:13:53 EST <Email Address Redacted> writes:
Hi Tony,
I Feel that the ACA has done a lot in the education of amputees. The resource material has been very helpful in our facility. We hand out there First Step booklet to all new amps. I feel that as it seems happens to an abundant number of NON PROFIT groups, the $$ have clouded the mission. If part of the mission is Advocacy, they cannot be having sleep-overs with ABC and the manufacturers. But of course this means less revenue.( and no pillow fights)
I wonder if there is a way they could funnel off some of the$$ into a separate nonprofit entity with a board made up only of amputees with no agendas except advocacy?? I know in a perfect world...
Thank you for your continued work to better ampdom! And thanks to ACA for the work they have done in the Education Arena.
Also Sign me up for a spot in Anaheim. If I can have my own sleep-over and charge admission, to afford the entry fee.
Jeff A. Zeller, BOCP, RTP
Rt B/K since 1980
Ray Tegerstrand's Orthopedic Appliance
2445 Athens Ave.
Redding, CA 96001
The issue of encouraging ACA to support advocacy issues and a Advocacy Workshop is the responsibility of both the profession and consumer. Most of all it is ACA's responsibility to listen to their members and amputees whom may not be members since they are obligated as a condition of federal funding.
Three ACA regional Representatives have offered their support.
The President of the NAAOP has offered his support.
The NEW Academy members have offered their support perhaps the NEW Academy leadership will too!
The Academy's mission statement is to promote patient advocacy and high standards in patient care through education,literature and research. A natural fit for them to help ACA address and support advocacy issues with ACA.
I hope that ACA feels that the overall support we are receiving for them to schedule Advocacy Workshop has merit particularly because the support is from all sources of advocacy!
We would like to work within the system if at all possible.
We still await ACA's decision to schedule the workshops in spite of all the support we have recieved to have them.
Law makers would like to see both interested parties in agreement for them to promote new policies and laws.
The overwhelming support for a ACA Advocacy Workshop is provided by consumer and professional and their own ACA Regional Representatives.
The supply (practitioners) and demand (consumers) sides of the equation are required to accomplish advocacy goals.
It is not the profession that are opposed to supporting proper licensed and affordable prosthetic care nor the consumers of such services.
Please don't encourage ACA leadership to run from their responsibility by suggesting an amputee only board and Advocacy Committee Workshop or a token Town Hall Meeting instead of a Advocacy Workshop at their Symposium.
Tony Barr
----- Original Message -----
From: Philip P Tamoush
To: Amputee Information Network
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: Current List of Volunteers and Supporters for ACA Advocacy Workshop
Jeff: Thank you for your comments, which mirror my own. I am on the Board of ACA, but would much prefer to see a separate committee or even organization involving amputees only to do separate advocacy issues. ACA is the best way to educate and inform, and the help of non-amputee organizations and individuals has been great in this way, but I bet if amputees alone got together in a separate room (as hopefully they will this summer at the ACA conference in the Advocacy workshop)the advocacy agenda would come out very different. I don't mean that non-amputees or O&P orgs. and companies should not be aware, but they certainly should not call the shots. Best wishes. Phil Tamoush
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 02:13:53 EST <Email Address Redacted> writes:
Hi Tony,
I Feel that the ACA has done a lot in the education of amputees. The resource material has been very helpful in our facility. We hand out there First Step booklet to all new amps. I feel that as it seems happens to an abundant number of NON PROFIT groups, the $$ have clouded the mission. If part of the mission is Advocacy, they cannot be having sleep-overs with ABC and the manufacturers. But of course this means less revenue.( and no pillow fights)
I wonder if there is a way they could funnel off some of the$$ into a separate nonprofit entity with a board made up only of amputees with no agendas except advocacy?? I know in a perfect world...
Thank you for your continued work to better ampdom! And thanks to ACA for the work they have done in the Education Arena.
Also Sign me up for a spot in Anaheim. If I can have my own sleep-over and charge admission, to afford the entry fee.
Jeff A. Zeller, BOCP, RTP
Rt B/K since 1980
Ray Tegerstrand's Orthopedic Appliance
2445 Athens Ave.
Redding, CA 96001
Citation
Tony Barr, “Supporters for ACA Advocacy Workshop,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 25, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/217802.
