Hosted by: Valley Deaf Related Interagency Team (DRIT) Neighbors and Statewide Interagency Team (SIT) that provide services to persons who are deaf, hard of hearing, late deafened and deafblind

Where: Senior Center at 1180 Pepsi Pl in Charlottesville, VA during the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) chapter meeting

When: Wednesday, September 3, 2008 from 1:00 pm until 2:30 pm

What: Public comments on state and local services for the deaf, hard of hearing, late deafened and deafblind

Accommodations/Questions: Sign Language Interpretation, Assistive Listening Devices and CART will be provided. To request for other accommodations or to ask for more information about the meeting, please contact either Kathy Baker or Feta Fernsler no later than August 20, 2008.

What is the Statewide Interagency Team (SIT)?
The Statewide Interagency Team is comprised of four state agency programs that serve persons who are deaf, hard of hearing, late deafened or deafblind—the Department for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (VDDHH), the Department of Rehabilitative Services (DRS), the Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired (DBVI) and the Valley Community Services Board (VCSB).

The interagency team was formed in May 2005 as a result of an interagency activity which developed an "Agencies Working Together Collaborative Model for Services to Persons who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Late Deafened or DeafBlind".  The Collaborative seeks to create a formal mechanism to support each agency’s efforts to improve services; to identify service gaps and to further develop or improve access to services within or outside of the collaborative agencies.