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DISABLED Continued from Page 1 train people and their families about their rights than to go out and speak to places like a business.” Pedevilla says there is a large need for I PAS. Some of its services include information about rights and benefits, information about disability issues, referrals to other service providers, individual advocacy services, such as cou nseling and short-term assistance and technical assistance in self-advocacy such as negotiation and mediation or individual representation in alternative dispute resolutions. “If we feel the issue is something we can work with and falls

under one of our priorities, we will intervene," said Pedevilla. “This includes mental illness or people going through rehab, for example.” There are eight programs that •consist of federally mandated priorities for Indiana, which can be seen on the organization’s Web site at www.in.gov/ipas. Discrimination occurs in many common places people go to every day such as movie theaters, restaurants and local businesses. These businesses all need to be accessible to people with disabilities. This is where IPAS comes in. If a violation is reported, they work to right whatever is wrong.

“Our main objective is not to sue people,” said Pedevilla. “It’s to resolve the issue. For example, there was a 3-year-old denied a wheel chair because they said since he was small he could be carried everywhere.” IPAS has four lawyers in case a discrimination suit goes to trial, but Pedevilla says that is the last resort. “We don’t just go off and sue someone,” she said. “We tell them what they’re doing first and try to resolve it. People are not knowledgeable sometimes about other people’s rights. They might interpret the law incorrectly. I don’t think too many people are so ignorant they discriminate

against someone with a disability on purpose.” IPAS’ services typically are low to no cost. IPAS is not state funded nor has it ever been. Unlike most other states, Indiana’s General Assembly does not appropriate additional funds for these services. Unfortunately present funding levels do not allow IPAS to take on every issue. If you or someone you know has a disability and is being discriminated against you can call I PAS at (800)622-4845or visit the Web site.

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Carson announces federal funding for emergency food, shelter Special to The Recorder

Congresswoman Julia Carson announced that $491,857 in federal funds have been allocated for Marion County, part of an allocation of $2,683,723 for the state of Indiana, under the Emergency Food and Shelter (EFS) Program of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The funds are to be used to feed and shelter the hungry and homeless, with special sensitivity to the transition from temporary shelter to permanent homes and attention to the specialized needs of homeless individuals with mental and physical disabilities and illness and to facilitate access for homeless individuals to other sources of services and benefits. To date, the EFS Program has distributed more than $ 2.65 billion to communities nationwide, and has accounted for millions of additional meals and nights of shelter to the hungry and homeless most in need across the nation. “Our community and our nation are challenged by the needs of the hungry and the homeless,” Carson said. “It seems especially fitting that word of the release of this money comes to us on the day we gather across the nation to memorialize the homeless we have lost this year. There is never enough money to meet the need, but this will help - it is one of the worthiest appropriations we make in the Congress.” Funded agencies, known as “Local Recipient Organizations” (LROs), use EFS supplemental funds for mass shelter, mass feeding, food distribution through food pantries and food banks, one-month utility payments to prevent service cutoff, and one-month rent/mortgage assistance to prevent evictions or assist people leaving shelters to establish stable living conditions. IP5TJ

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