Meet the Board - Michael Collins<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t![\"Professional](\"https:\/\/deafhhs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mike-824x1024.jpg\")
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAs we work to provide equal communication access, education and advocacy to the Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing in pursuit of all life\u2019s opportunities, we are grateful to a wide range of partners, including our Board of Directors. We want to share more about them with you.<\/p>
In this installment, we spend a little time with board member Michael Collins. Michael is the father of a Deaf child, has a wide variety of life experiences and now works with Michigan Hands and Voices as a children’s Special Education Advocate. Born and raised in the Grand Rapids area, he has an undergraduate degree in engineering and a graduate degree in public management.<\/p>
Learn more about him and his involvement on the D&HHS board below!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHow did you first get connected to D&HHS?<\/strong><\/p>I was introduced to D&HHS through a fellow board member, Betsy Smith. She invited me to help and the rest, as they say, is history! I should add that we started participating in D&HHS events and camps a decade ago, and so it is a pleasure to give back to an organization that has given us so much.<\/p>
What’s one thing you love about being a D&HHS board member?<\/strong><\/p>Really one of the main things is the connections to other Deaf community members. I give my time because there is no substitute for the knowledge our family has learned from our D&HHS experience. I am hopeful there will be more D&HHS parents who will provide support and advocacy for my child and his peers when I am no longer able.<\/p>
What would be lost if D&HHS didn’t exist?<\/strong><\/p>One of the main things is that D&HHS is an organization which provides and advocates language equity. That\u2019s extremely important, and there isn\u2019t another agency on this side of the state that does it like D&HHS does.<\/p>
What’s one thing you wish people knew about D&HHS?<\/strong><\/p>Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services is not a government-funded program and needs community fundraising involvement to continue its social programs helping the Deaf, DeafBlind and hard of hearing communities.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\tAs we work to provide equal communication access, education and advocacy to the Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing in pursuit of all life\u2019s opportunities, we are grateful to a wide range of partners, including our Board of Directors. We want to share more about them with you.<\/p>
In this installment, we spend a little time with board member Michael Collins. Michael is the father of a Deaf child, has a wide variety of life experiences and now works with Michigan Hands and Voices as a children’s Special Education Advocate. Born and raised in the Grand Rapids area, he has an undergraduate degree in engineering and a graduate degree in public management.<\/p>
Learn more about him and his involvement on the D&HHS board below!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t How did you first get connected to D&HHS?<\/strong><\/p> I was introduced to D&HHS through a fellow board member, Betsy Smith. She invited me to help and the rest, as they say, is history! I should add that we started participating in D&HHS events and camps a decade ago, and so it is a pleasure to give back to an organization that has given us so much.<\/p> What’s one thing you love about being a D&HHS board member?<\/strong><\/p> Really one of the main things is the connections to other Deaf community members. I give my time because there is no substitute for the knowledge our family has learned from our D&HHS experience. I am hopeful there will be more D&HHS parents who will provide support and advocacy for my child and his peers when I am no longer able.<\/p> What would be lost if D&HHS didn’t exist?<\/strong><\/p> One of the main things is that D&HHS is an organization which provides and advocates language equity. That\u2019s extremely important, and there isn\u2019t another agency on this side of the state that does it like D&HHS does.<\/p> What’s one thing you wish people knew about D&HHS?<\/strong><\/p> Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services is not a government-funded program and needs community fundraising involvement to continue its social programs helping the Deaf, DeafBlind and hard of hearing communities.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Meet the Board – Michael Collins As we work to provide equal communication access, education and advocacy to the Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing in pursuit of all life\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deafhhs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deafhhs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deafhhs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deafhhs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deafhhs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6109"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/deafhhs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6113,"href":"https:\/\/deafhhs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109\/revisions\/6113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deafhhs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deafhhs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deafhhs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}