Don Fitch

By Donald M. Fitch, MS Executive Director Center for Career Freedom The purpose of this column is to assist providers and consumers to be more effective when negotiating with local government agencies for income, health care, housing, food, transportation, job training, employment and other … [Read more...] about Spring 2007 The Economics of Recovery: How to Understand & Access Government Entitlements

By Donald M. Fitch, MS Executive Director Center for Career Freedom The purpose of this column is to assist providers and consumers to be more effective when negotiating with local government agencies for income, health care, housing, food, transportation, job training, employment and other social … [Read more...] about Summer 2007 The Economics of Recovery How to Understand & Access Government Entitlements

By Donald M. Fitch, MS Executive Director Center for Career Freedom Several years ago, the Center discovered that by plotting the earnings behavior of persons with psychiatric disabilities over time, then, overlaying key events in their lives to explain them, unlocks the dynamics of consumers in … [Read more...] about Fall 2007 The Economics of Recovery: How to Understand & Access Government Entitlements

By Donald M. Fitch, MS Executive Director Center for Career Freedom At the urging of those of our students who reside in Westchester’s’ Homeless Drop-In/Shelter System, the Center initiated a survey this past summer of some sixty single adult residents, and twenty-three one-to-one in-depth … [Read more...] about Winter 2008 The Economics of Recovery The Homeless of Westchester County: Trapped in The System

By Donald M. Fitch, MS Executive Director Center for Career Freedom In Westchester County, about half of all single adult homeless refuse to be mentally and/or physically screened or, to sign over their disability checks. The current policy is to then deny them access to the Shelters. They must … [Read more...] about Spring 2008 The Economics of Recovery: Cost Effective Solutions for The Homeless

By Donald M. Fitch, MS Executive Director Center for Career Freedom In late April, NYS Governor David A. Paterson sent a memo to all eleven State Agency Commissioners asking them to submit their plans for reducing their agencies projected 2009-10 spending by 3.5 percent. This would slow the … [Read more...] about Summer 2008 The Economics of Recovery: How Business Tools Can Help