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6/28/23  6:56 pm
Commenter: Anonymous

EOR
 

We are a military family, with no friends in the area or trusted individuals. We have some relatives. With the proposed changes, you are saying we cannot be the EOR(me) and have a PCA (my spouse) because it jeopardizes our children. No. What jeopardizes our children is finding a stranger, one who isn’t getting paid to do a tedious and time consuming job, to have access to very sensitive information about them. They will have access to addresses, the socials of the PCA and the child, every single thing that we aren’t supposed to be handing out to every Tom Dick and Harry on the street. We all as parents know this is because you had too much public outcry from parents about needing to be agency directed and go through all this training to take care of children we have lived with their whole lives. So because you had congress crawling up your ends on keeping live in PCAs, you are now trying to remove them another way. 
So, DMAS, will you be paying the new EOR we are supposed to find? Will you be paying them the high rate expected, since this is considered a data entry position? Will you be paying and providing the same background checks? And liability insurance because that person will have sensitive information access? And what will you have in place if information gets stolen? You are putting a disadvantaged and highly at risk community at an even higher risk. 
you won’t deter us from being PCAs and EORs. You’ll be clogged in court for discriminatory work practices and this falls outside of Right to Work per multiple attorneys. Emails are sent. State reps are on our side. The DOD will start to get involved when military families show the discriminatory practices against them due to not having anyone to be EOR. Single parents will be pouring emails to state reps. 
Allow one parent to be an EOR. Keep what we already have in place. We have enough oversight with doctors, therapists and the SF that come into our homes on an almost daily basis. We don’t need someone else in our lives who have never walked in our shoes telling us we may be purposely hindering our children from growth and development. We WISH that were the case so our children could go on to live normal lives, but many of us will raise our children until we die. And then we have to worry about the state providing any care ag all, because we all know how that goes.

 

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