try your local Protection and advocacy.  every state has to have PAI

Look it up on the web.

Mag

Tamar Magenta Raine
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Oakland Mayor's Commission on People with disabilities


> [Original Message]
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> Date: 11/23/2003 8:45:39 PM
> Subject: Laywers in Oregon?
>
> Hello,
> Can anyone on this list recommend some good disability rights lawyers in
> Oregon, specifically in the Willamette Valley or Portland?
>
> The state has cut our son's caregiver budget by $1300 dollars/month and
his
> caseworker, who is absolutely wonderful, suggested we might be a test
case.
> The Legal Aid and Advocay Groups are very very very busy, and one of the
groups'
> spokesperson told me that they'd never won a case against the state yet.
>
> For my son to lose this funding will mean a blow to his self confidence.
It
> will also take away his freedom, something that at age 21 and a college
> student, he needs to have.
>
> Any information would be very helpful.
>
> Thank you very much.
> Judi Kloper
> mom to Dana, college student, wonderful son, and beholder of charming
> personality~
> who also has quadriplegic cerebral palsy and a bialteral hearing loss.
>
>
>
> Thou hast made me known
> to friends whom I knew not.
> Thou has given me seats in homes not my own.
> Thou has brought the distance near
> and made a brother of the stranger.
> -Tagore