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Sixth Annual U.P. Long Term Care Facilities Best Practices Conference
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UPCAP's Long Term Care Ombudsman Program is currently planning the Sixth Annual U.P. Long Term Care Facilities Best Practices Conference. The primary objectice of this conference is to give facility staff and administrators the opportunity to network and share successful concepts, practices, and programs which could be emulated in other U.P. facilities. We have also scheduled speakers in the field of long term care to present pertinent information.
The conference date, place and times are as follows:
Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Bay De Noc Community College
Joseph Heirman University Center
2001 N. Lincoln Road
Escanaba, MI 49829
9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. (EDT)
$15.00 per person (includes continental breakfast, lunch and materials)
The deadline to register is Monday, October 27, 2008. If you have any questions, please call local LTC Ombudsman, Doni Young at 1-866-485-9393 or e-mail youngdl@upcap.org.
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PATH Classes
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PATH is a 6 week program that teaches practical skills for living a healthy life with a chronic health condition like diabetes, arthritis, asthma, chronic pain, or heart disease.
Classes meet 2 1/2 hours once a week. Cost is $10 per person for the 6 week program. For more information click the PATH Classes link above.
To register call UPCAP Services at 906-786-4701, ext 3019
PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED!
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Upper Peninsula 9-1-1
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Monday, September 22, 2008
The Upper Peninsula 9-1-1 Authority and the U.P. Association of County Commissioners strongly denounces Michigan House Bill 6070 and the efforts of the Telecommunications Association of Michigan (TAM - whose members include AT&T) to denigrate local government in an attempt to give the state greater control of 9-1-1.
TAM would like the Michigan Legislature to believe that phone customers need to be protected from local government spending for 9-1-1. TAM recently convinced the Public Service Commission to hold counties to increases of 2.7% or less for 9-1-1. Yet some of the phone companies that TAM represents raise their rates 20-25% per year. They collect “billing, collection,” and undefined “technical surcharges” from local 9-1-1 funds. And TAM spends tens of thousands of phone customers’ dollars per year to support lobbying efforts.
Why were counties asking for more money? Because local 9-1-1 funding decreased significantly over the last several years while a change in the law was being debated. The old law would only allow local surcharges on traditional land line phones. Many people abandoned their traditional phones for cell phones or internet phones. So as more and more customers changed their service, the 9-1-1 funds dwindled. In many areas, more than 50% of the 9-1-1 calls were from cell phones, yet the land line customers were the only ones paying for the local 9-1-1 operations. This was not only unfair to land line customers, but funding continued to shrink and county 9-1-1 fund balances were depleted. Counties had to delay or cancel capital improvements for 9-1-1 operations until revenues could be restored at least to previous levels.
Counties advocated for the new law (which took effect July 1st) which is considered “revenue neutral” in that all customers (wire line, cell, internet, etc.) within a county pay the same. This makes it fair (neutral) for not only the customers, but also the phone companies competing for business. TAM now has even twisted the concept of “revenue neutral” to mean counties should not be able to collect any increase under the new law to keep the promise of revenue neutrality. We would like to see the phone companies survive with “revenue neutrality” as they wish to define it.
The bottom line is that 9-1-1 is a local service, part of the local public safety team that provides local police, local fire, and local EMS services to people who need them. 9-1-1 service has always been the responsibility of local County Boards of Commissioners. These elected officials are accountable to their citizens for the proper operation and funding of 9-1-1. We must not allow the funding decisions to be turned over to an appointed, unelected bureaucracy (the Public Service Commission) with no direct accountability to our citizens.
Contact - Jonathan Mead (906) 786-4701
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UPACC Fall Conference
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UP Association of County Commissioners (UPACC)- Fall Conference 2008 - October 10 & 11th, 2008
Chip-In's Island Resort, Harris, MI
Registration begins at noon on Friday, October 10th and ends at approximately 11:00 on Saturday, October 11th.
Please call the UPCAP Office (906) 786-4701 for more information
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1st Annual UP Kinship Care Service Providers Meeting
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1st Annual UP Kinship Care Service Providers Meeting
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Holiday Inn, Marquette
The MSU Kinship Care Resource Center and UPCAP Services Inc. have collaborated to provide a kinship workshop to social service professionals interested in kinship resources and program development.
This meeting will provide agency professionals the opportunity to:
* Learn about kinship resources and needs, legislation, research and events; and
* Network and learn from other programs.
This event is made possible by a grant from the Michigan Office of Services to the Aging to help provide technical assistance to the Area Agencies on Aging and professionals interested in meeting the needs of kinship care givers for children.
Please contact Michigan State University, School of Social Work. Attn: Kinship Care Resource Center, 254 Baker Hall, E. Lansing, MI 48824 @ (800) 535-1218 or www.kinship.msu.edu for more information.
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FY2009 Area Agency on Aging - Annual Implementation Plan
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FY2009 Area Agency on Aging - Annual Implementation Pla
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PATH (Personal Action Towards Health) PROGRAM
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PATH (Personal Action Towards Health) is a Chronic Disease Self-Management Program that is designed to be a part of your current medical treatment. PATH is a six week program that teaches practical skills for living a healthy life with an ongoing health condition. Classes meet for 2 ˝ hours once a week for six weeks. Click on the link above to download a printable brochure.
For more information or to register for a class in your area, please contact Tonya LaFave at 1-800-305-8137.
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