Virginia Organizing Pushes for Equal Access to Health Care for Deaf Community
Charlottesville, Va.—Virginia Organizing leaders are working with several Central Virginia hospitals to improve services for the deaf community, which includes some basic services ...
Read More »Deaf and Hard of Hearing Patients and Families: Delivering Culturally-Competent Care
Check out this great presentation from Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School on how to deliver culturally-competent care for deaf and hard of hearing patients and ...
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Interpretation and Health Care
Some of our leaders found these videos and webinars from a VRI company, Stratus Video, in Florida. The webinars are very informative and inclusive of all perspectives- patient, pr ...
Read More »Letter to the Editor: Deaf patients need special care
Originally published in the NewsLeader For the past year I have followed the progress of House Bill 1956 regarding effective communication for deaf and hard-of-hearing patients in ...
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Virginia Organizing SAW Chapter Works with Local Deaf Community to Increase Accessibility at Local Hospitals
Check out this video to learn more about why accessibility in hospitals is so important! Video by Phil Dixon. https://youtu.be/LzNB_CQCMow ...
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Danville Police Expand Citizen Complaint Program
Originally posted on The Danville Register & Bee. Members of both the Danville Police Department and Virginia Organizing announced expansions in availability of citizen compla ...
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Chief Broadfoot and Virginia Organizing Hold Media Conference to Highlight Citizen Complaint Procedure
What: Joint press conference to highlight the availability of the City of Danville Police Department citizen complaint forms When: Wednesday, December 9 at 11:30 a.m. Where: Green ...
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Amherst County to Revise Ordinance Restricting Felons from Operating Businesses
Originally published in The Amherst New Era Progress. Virginia Organizing leaders in an emerging Chapter in the area have been organizing around this important issue! In response ...
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All Virginians deserve access to front door
Published on Sunday, November 22, 2015 in the Richmond Times-Dispatch Editor, Times-Dispatch: Regarding former first lady Roxanne Gilmore’s critique of the plan for a wheelchair r ...
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Virginia Organizing Danville Chapter Leaders Respond to Attorney General Herring’s Police Recruitment Pilot Program
Danville, Va.—Virginia Organizing Chapter leaders in Danville attended a media conference held by Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring where he announced a new pilot program in ...
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