Lisa Franklin, CEO/Founder est. 2008 Appointee of Governor Gretchen Whitmer to Barrier Free Design Board 2020 lisa@wow4metrodetroit.org

Jaime Junior, COO Board Member of Developmental Disability Council 2019, PuLsE Institute Fellow UofM Focus Group IDEAL Chair jaime@wow4metrodetroit.org

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  WOW Leadership
​​Board Members
Marguerite Maddox                   Tameka Citchen-Spruce
Beatrice Segur                                LaTina Denson, PhD
Sharon Gooding                             Paul Johnson, III
Michelle Meade, PhD
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WOW COVID-19 GROCERY DELIVERY SERVICE
313-251-5777
FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
IN DETROIT, Highland Park & Hamtramck. 
USING  **CASH or DEBIT/Credit FOR YOUR GROCERIES.   CALL AND REGISTER FOR THIS SERVICE.  The delivery cost IS NO CHARGE TO YOU.  REGISTRATION IS: 
MONDAY & FRIDAY 11am -2pm
for more information contact any WOW member or call 313-251-5777
**SNAP/EBT is reserved for WOW Members Only.

Donations are welcome.   Your generosity will help our community
​tremendously.  Your donation large or small will help keep this program
​going through this pandemic and possible beyond 

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COVID-19 Pandemic 2020

     UPDATE: Friday, May 22, 2020 
Stay Home....Stay Safe until June 12th, 2020

Check local listings for testing sites.  No prescription is required.   BUT YOU MUST MAKE RESERVATIONS.  $2.00 rides through DDOT Transdev to the State Fair Grounds testing site.
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Please join the WOW Wellness calls
Mondays, & Wednesdays  4:00pm - 5:30pm  2/24-present
Link is:
Join Hangouts Meet - Video conference
meet.google.com/smv-mimg-dgy
or Join by phone
+1 650-817-8345 (PIN: 956497566)
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& Karaoke on Friday nights from 7pm-9pm
Warriors Choice of Song.......Lots of Fun.  
meet.google.com/smv-mimg-dgy
or Join by phone
+1 650-817-8345 (PIN: 956497566)
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ALL SCHOOL CHILDREN ARE IN RECESS UNTIL SEPTEMBER 2020

STAY HOME.  IF YOU MUST GO OUT NOTE:
1.   THE VIRUS is TRANSFERRED through Human Contact.
2.   WEAR RUBBER/LATAX GLOVES AND WEAR A MASK.
3.  DO NOT TOUCH YOUR FACE.  THE VIRUS ENTERS THROUGH YOUR MOUTH.
AND PRACTICE PHYSICAL DISTANCING 
AT LEAST 6-10 FEET APART FROM THE NEXT PERSON
WHEREVER YOU GO.
4.   WASH YOUR HANDS WITH SOAP AND WARM WATER FOR AT LEAST 20 SECONDS.  (SAY A.B.C's, TWICE)
5.   HAND SANITIZERS REMOVES THE GERM, BUT SOAP AND WATER REMOVE THE GERM AND GRIM WHICH THE GERM CAN ATTACH.
  6.  DO NOT USE HAND SANITIZERS NEAR THE STOVE OR AN OPEN FLAME.  DUE TO THE ALCOHOL CONTENT....IT WILL IGNITE.  (REPORTS OF PEOPLE BURNING THEIR HANDS...BE CAREFUL)
9.   STAY HOME....STAY SAFE.   
BOOST YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEMS.  OJ, VITAMINS, ETC.
10.  THIS PANDEMIC WILL  GET WORST BEFORE BETTER IF WE DISREGARD THE GOVERNOR'S ORDER TO STAY HOME.
IF YOU EXPERIENCE THE SYMPTOMS PLEASE CALL THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT HOTLINE:
(313) 876-4000
SYMPTOMS ARE:  
FEVER, DRY COUGH, DIFFICULTY IN BREATHING, loss of taste and smell.
STAY HOME AND CONTACT YOUR PHYSICIAN OR HOSPITAL HOTLINES...
Ascension - 833-978-0649
   Beaumont Health - 800-592-478   
Henry Ford Health System - 313-874-7500
THEY WILL INSTRUCT YOU.
THE VIRUS ENTERS THROUGH YOU MOUTH AND CAUSES MUCUS BUILD UP.  THE MUCUS CLOGS YOUR AIRWAYS AND LUNGS MAKING IT HARD TO BREATH.
DRINKING HOT FLUIDS, TEAS, SOUPS, LEMON WATER CAN HELP.   STAY AWAY FROM ICE AND COLD BEVERAGES.
THE MOST AFFECTED ARE people WHO HAVE WEAKENED IMMUNE SYSTEMS, the ELDERLY AND with ILLNESSES.
PANDEMIC DOES NOT MEAN PANIC.  It means that THIS IS WORLDWIDE.   PLEASE TAKE IT SERIOUSLY AND BE SAFE.

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  Disabled Voters Advisory Council  (DVAC)

Please share with us through this survey ( link )  how your primary election day experience was on March 7th, 2020.  DVAC worked with the Department of Elections for one (1) entire year to ensure that People with Disabilities were respected at the Polls.  We provided Disability Trainers to train the poll workers on etiquette, they shared experiences, disability awareness and the correct way to hook up and use the VAT (Voters Assistive Technology) Accessible Machine.  Much to our dismay, we (DVAC) conducted site visits to various polling sites on election day, to find that all of our efforts were in vain.  Again, please share your experience good, bad or indifferent at: 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ba47dttlLNRHj4EJdkoR8bGYkrDafsKYOCMLhB4_qKw/edit 

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Office of Disabilities Affairs (ODA)   Detroit

The last census count placed the population in the city of Detroit as approximately 680,000 people; 126,000 + (roughly, 1-in-5) have disabilities.
This population is marginally disadvantaged and are in need of the city of step up to cover us.
People with disabilities are educated, homeowners, TAX PAYERS,
human beings!  We are your family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, and visitors to this city; when we are affected, everyone is affected.  Our family, friends, caregivers....the community suffers.

Fed up with the mediocre services, lack of access, lack of employment support, lack of accessible housing, and disrespect; the community of people with disabilities joined forces as a Collective/Focus Group for People with Disabilities to campaign for a fully funded, staffed Office of Disability Affairs.
We strongly agreed on a proposal of adequate positions of "lived experience personnel" of Specialist, ASL, Braille, Employment, Housing, Transportation, Public Access,  Intergovernmental Coordination, ADA Coordinator and EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS ***WHICH WE NEED TODAY!!!  This city has the responsibility to protect every single citizen in the city.   
The Focus Group for People with Disabilities have met and presented to the Charter Commissioners, the Detroit City Council and Mayor Duggan.

The Charter Commissioners were very supportive and receptive.  The Detroit City Council under President Brenda Jones and Pro Tem Mary Sheffield presented a Resolution encouraging  the Mayor to fully fund and staff  the ODA.  The resolution passed unanimously.   THANK YOU.   We respectfully met with and submitted to the Mayor, the need, the mission, the purpose and the structure of this office.  After two (2) round table meetings with the Mayor, a number of disability justice and advocacy organizations ie:  National Federation of the Blind (Detroit), Blast Detroit, Detroit Disability Power and Warriors on Wheels of Metropolitan  Detroit and the Human Rights Commissioner for PwD; we were blindsided, but not at all surprised that the Mayor budgeted the Office of Disability Affairs with a  $120,000 allocation for 2 positions!?  He also changed the name, to Office of Disability Service???   We also urged for an independent department and the Mayor opted to place this office under CRIO; Civil Rights Inclusion and Opportunity, which is a complaint and investigation department that has operated under Mayor Duggan since he was elected.  

We need this City to Support an Office of Disability Affairs.  When you see it on the Ballot in 2022 under the Charter Revision vote, VOTE YES.
Also you can help us by contacting the Mayor, City Council, Charter Commissioners and CRIO and voice your concern for all of us.  As the number of Detroiters grow to senior age, at some point, if God is willing, you will be in need of these very same programs, services and the respect.

P.S. - I just happened to look at the Mayors page to get this update on COVID-19 and if you read it, there is NO mention of people with disabilities.  SMH
Detroit Must Do Better!!!
https://detroitmi.gov/departments/detroit-health-department/programs-and-services/communicable-disease/coronavirus-covid-19/covid-19-city-resources#food
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Sam Riddle Show
https://ddi.wayne.edu/news/mi-lend-fellow-interviewed-on-am-910-radio-about-her-work-with-warriors-on-wheels-4-metro-detroit-37028?fbclid=IwAR003uN3wfCp5BysCKpAarWt8ebI8kwrOjrFFwZqkjP01qLnEHn74L6jGZk​
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Next WOW membership meeting is TBA
Fellowship Chapel   7707 W. Outer Drive  Detroit, Mi  48235
Agenda:    TBA

We work hard for you seen and unseen:

SCI (Spinal Cord Injury) Newsletter Articles - University of Michigan
Complete Streets Coalition
Curb Cuts
Concrete Defects @ Hart Plaza
Transportation - Para-Transit & Fixed Routes  (DDOT & RTA)
QLINE
Regularly attend - 
               Public, Health & Safety /Detroit City Council Meetings
                   &   Local Advisory Committee (LAC)  -  DDOT
Emergency Preparedness
CAYMC Security - Disability Awareness Session
Barrier Free Challenge -  Participants  Detroit City Council Members

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All Means All.... Creativity with the Matrix Theatre featuring:  Award winning
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Human Rights Commission
Women's March Convention 2017  -  Local Host Committee/Speaker/Booth



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