Amen to that statement. I have asked for help, without receiving the help i asked for, for my handicapped daughter, from the Kansas City Regional Center. Only to later receive a printout from Medicaid showing Kansas City Regional Center charging for “phone time” well over the amount of money i was needing for my daughter!!! I was ended up being told there were no funds!!

Waiting lists exist in many states for many services for people who have disabilities. The vocational rehabilitation agencies that are run by states have waiting lists too.

People who have physical disabilities and are intelligent people are put onto these waiting lists before they can get training for employment. Many students graduate from high school with limited work experience or work skills and then sit on waiting lists for state vocational rehabilitation programs for months and sometimes years.

There are many people who are unemployed not because they do not want to work, but because they can not even get the right training to help them find a job.

Too much money in America is used to pay big agencies to help people with disabilities and nothing gets done. The Americorps programs give more opportunities to people with disabilities than the programs that were set up for them.

Geraldo’s work for people who have disabilities has been good — but it is not done yet!