For Immediate Release
December 4, 2013
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MANHATTAN - Michael Klurfeld, VOR’s New York State Coordinator, will represent the national organization at the Family & Professional Resource Fair, sponsored by the Manhattan Developmental Disabilities Council, on December 11, 2013.
VOR advocates for high quality care and human rights for all people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) across the country.
November 19, 2013 (submitted)
Augusta Chronicle * Letter to the Editor
Ann S. Knighton, VOR President and President of East Central Georgia Regional Hospital
Dr. Kenneth Fuller’s editorial (“Closure of Georgia hospitals endangers mental health care,” Nov. 17) is like water in a dry desert: refreshingly right and necessary, but painfully scarce. I share completely his concerns about Georgia’s misguided effort to evict fragile, disabled citizens from their homes.
VOR, a national organization who participated as Amicus Curiae in Ligas v. Hamos, offers its congratulations
For Immediate Release, November 8, 2013
Elk Grove Village - Under any circumstance, acts of generosity deserve recognition, especially when it is not sought.
On November 15, Bill Choslovsky and Scott Mendel, two Chicago attorneys who were motived by doing right and not by recognition, will get the honor they deserve.
Both will be receiving the Sister Rosemary Connelly Service Medallion at the annual Misericordia Heart of Mercy Ball for their pro bono legal representation of Misericordia in Ligas v. Hamos, a class action lawsuit that threatened to close private facility homes of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) across Illinois.
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VOR, a national organization who participated as Amicus Curiae in Ligas v. Hamos, offers its congratulations
For Immediate Release, November 8, 2013
Elk Grove Village - Under any circumstance, acts of generosity deserve recognition, especially when it is not sought.
On November 15, Bill Choslovsky and Scott Mendel, two Chicago attorneys who were motived by doing right and not by recognition, will get the honor they deserve.
For Immediate Release
October 28, 2013
Julie Huso, Executive Director of VOR, a national non-profit, non-provider, advocacy organization for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD), will travel to Lander next week to tour the Wyoming Life Resource Center (WLRC) and meeting residents’ families. She will meet with WLRC families on Monday, November 4, following the center tour, at the Lander Public Library, Carnegie Room.
For Immediate Release
October 4, 2013
Julie Huso, Executive Director of VOR, a national advocacy organization for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD), traveled to the Chicago-area last week to meet with individuals with I/DD and their families. During her week-long visit, Huso toured public and private facilities for people with I/DD, shared information about VOR’s national advocacy with families of disabled individuals, and met with VOR leaders and members.
