What does the E.D. really do for people with disabilities

This was picked up floating around and we are asking people's input to enlighten the Board of Directors how much time is involved to complete this work for her classes. Prep work, home work and anything else you can add would be greatly appreciated. If the E.D was not doing this at the expense of NILP and taking valuable services, funding and time from people with disabilities why then is she using NILP's e-mail address and telephone as her business address. Why does the BOD not request to see her e-mail and phone records.

Dear NILP Board Members,

As concerned taxpayers and advocates for people with disabilities we have a moral obligation to point out issues of concern about NILP.

We would like to bring to your attention the fact that the Executive Director of the Northeast Independent Living Program, inc. is using federal and state resources and funding for her own personal business as an adjunct professor, although, this may not be illegal it is highly unethical. As a board member each of you has a personal responsibility to ensure legal and ethical integrity. The board is ultimately responsible for adherence to legal standards and ethical norms. Do you know that the ED is using her NILP email and phone number as her contact information for her classes? If not, why do you not know and do you approve of the agency’s resources being used in this manner? This is a serious misuse of NILP’s staff, resources and funding and should be addressed immediately.

The Executive Director should be concentrating and performing the job duty’s she was hired to do and not using NILP resources, and funding for her own personal gain. We are asking that the Board of Directors address this issue as soon as possible and that the same be placed into her personal file.

There is an agency bus that has been sitting in the parking lot for many months sitting idle and not being used because the current van driver does not want to get his CDL license. We ask you then why is he still employed at NILP? This vehicle was purchased so that participants and the general public could have access to transportation. The Board of Director’s needs to be asking for accountability in matters that may potentially harm this organization! These vehicles are provided thanks to a grant from the Massachusetts Office of Transportation under the Mobility Assistance Program (MAP) under Chapter 33 of the Acts of 1991 and Section 5310 of the Federal Transit Act, as amended. Additionally, the Stevens Foundation, of North Andover generously provided them with the required 20% match. What would the Office of Transportation and the Stevens Foundation think about the bus sitting in a parking lot and not being used?

Program Eval & Assessment 6230 Graduate Lecturer: June Cowen

Program Evaluation and Assessment EDU 6230

Spring 2010 Syllabus

Course Schedule: Boston Campus

Start Date: Tuesday evenings from 5:50pm- 8:00pm

Beginning the week of April 12, 2010 – May 17, 2010

Six week Blended Learning Course

Location: Boston Campus

Instructor: June Cowen, B.S Ed, M.S. M.

Contact Info: jcowen@nilp.org

978-687-4288 ext.139

Required Text: Evaluating Training Programs: The Four Levels (3rd Edition, Donald Kirkpatrick

Course Description Program evaluation and assessment is critical to quality assurance and continuous improvement. In this course, students will learn how to establish goals based on measurable outcomes and how to set benchmarks for performance measurement. Mechanisms that demonstrate value added are also important to organizations that sponsor training and development efforts. Students will learn how to demonstrate the impact of a program on an organization's bottom line. In addition, issues related to accreditation and other academic program reviews will be examined.

Course Learning Objectives:

Upon Completion of the course, students will be able to:

1. Define Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Evaluation.

2. Demonstrate how to write training and education goals based upon measurable outcomes.

3. Define performance management, Key performance Indicators (KPI) and ROI as it relates to

organizational learning outcomes.

4. Compare and Contrast benchmarks and benchmarking steps in organizational learning and

higher education environments.

5. Define the impact of sociolinguistic cultural differences into program evaluation efficacy.

6. Design a program evaluation tool for use in an organizational learning context or higher education environment.

7. Build and present a lesson or seminar that will serve as a capstone to integrate your own personal learning journey about assessment and program evaluation.

Teaching Strategies, Lectures, Student Presentations, Case Studies, Peer

Mentoring, Course Requirements, Assigned Readings, Current Events/articles- Abstracts & Presentations

FYI salaries for 2008 and 2009

I just got finished reading the minutes from the Massachusetts Statewide Independent Living Council meetings. I find it both ironic and hilarious that I.L. Centers say they are under funded.

Has anyone really been following this blog, does anyone think there is any false information on this blog. If any information on here is false I am sure that the lawyers would have pushed harder to get it removed or would have taken action. It is stated below that the NILP's budget in 16 short months went from $804.601 up to $1,009.699, someone please tell me where there is a shortage of money's.

I think that the wrong approach has been used here to explain the salary of the E.D. For those of you who lost your jobs, or on fixed incomes, have to survive on SSI or SSDI and are having a very difficult time making ends meet on $1,000 to $1,500 per month, give this some serious thought when you hear other people say ILC are under-funded, the ED at NILP makes approximately $8,500.00 per month, and has given what she calls her loyal staff some major increases in their salary.

Taken from the minutes of the SILC meetings.

Joe Castelani My name is Joe Castellani, Executive director of Ad lib, and I just wanted to say that we support the executive director input as presented by Mary Margaret. I look forward to that again and I think it adequately addresses the historical underfunding of the centers, takes into account the real probability that we're going to endorse some more cuts very quickly, and has a plan for us to cope with these cuts.

It is proven that ILC have been grossly under-funded for years but please do support those IL centers that are using their funding for you, using their funding to provide advocacy to help you as a person with a disability live a more independent life style.

The year ending in June 2009 the agency had less employees either terminated or left because of the hostile environment.

Figures received from the Statement of Functional Expenses for the year ending in 2009 the salaries range went from $804.601 in 2008 to $1,009.699 in 2009. Ask yourself how can this be with LESS staff.

If you are a Massachusetts Taxpayer or a person with a disability you need to take action to save NILP. If you continue to sit back and not take action then your tax dollars will continue to be wasted and people with disabilities - have been and will continue moving backwards, again.