3 Good Reasons to Can Carmen Hooker Odom and Mike Mosley

Reason #1: (they have no idea how to manage this agency): If Odem and Mosley had a problem with the Service Definitions that they created which guide the Endorsed Providers, they should have at least politely and humbly suggested that they 'mis-spoke.' In distinct contrast to this, they slit the throats of the Endorsed Providers with the explanation that they were trying to protect the public against the 'bad apples.'

Reason #2: There are not enough of the sought-after, highly trained people whom Odum and Mosley have evidently been pining for in the mental health care community. Not by a long shot. Thus, they have created Community Support which is considerably truncated in its vision, to be administered by people with considerably less time to devote to it as more highly trained inviduals will not be willing to work for such a poor hourly rate. If the Endorsed Provider agencies get $40/ hour for Community Support, just how much do you think the hourly wage is going to be for a highly trained master's level mental health worker? How much running around to various clients houses do you think such a worker is going to be able to do? Bear in mind that under mental health care reform, individual providers, such as myself, a psychologist, cannot work with the clients. Oh no: you have to fly under the protective wing of the Endorsed Provider entity.

Reason #3: (Odum and Mosley play charades with disabled people's lives): The Supreme Court's Olmstead decision and the American Disability Act mandates that people with disabilities are to be given the resources to live within their communities. By cutting Community Support by one-third, Odum and Mosley have put at clear risk the continues existence of the fragile Endorsed Provider system and accordingly, disabled people's ability to continue to live in their communities