Providing constructive feedback to leadership to help improve government policies and programs is a worthy endeavor. Most people in leadership positions do value the opinions of people experiencing or close to problems in our system.

Citizen-provided information is often the best and most accurate information a leader can receive. Sometimes it is the only way they can learn about real issues, difficulties, and successes of government initiatives to serve their constituents. We think leaders respond to positive feedback that they believe is accurate and reliable.

Providing your opinion and feedback to leadership could help get WorkWORLD^TM provided free to all in Nebraska. This page provides, as a convenience, key contact information for agencies in your state and members of your state legislature. A different page has contact information for federal agencies.

Additionally, the Achieving Free WorkWORLD in Your State Through Pledges page shows how state agencies, community-based organizations, and individuals can help build a state funding pool to make WorkWORLD free to residents of Nebraska.

If you do contact leadership, tell them why WorkWORLD is valuable to you, and how you use the WorkWORLD program or website. Leadership can be encouraged to visit our explanation page for our new funding structure, so that they can consider the value of working with us to arrange for free distribution of our software to all that want it in Nebraska.

Contact information and agency structures change frequently at the state level. If you find information here that needs to be updated, or if you know of other people and agencies in Nebraska that should be added to the list, please email us at workworld@vcu.edu.

You may also wish to review our new funding structure page which details changes in distribution and other steps we are taking to keep WorkWORLD available for all.

Planning Council on Developmental Disabilities
Mary Gordon, Executive Director
301 Centennial Mall South
P.O. Box 95044
Lincoln, NE  68509-5044
Phone: 402-471-2330
Fax: 402-471-0383
Email: mary.gordon@hhss.ne.gov

Planning Council on DD
Linda Walker Gardels, Chairperson
110 North 54th Street
Omaha, NE  68132
Phone: 402-551-0157
Fax: 402-561-8010
Email: LWGardels@aol.com

Nebraska Advocacy Services, Inc.
Timothy Shaw, Executive Director
522 Lincoln Center Building
215 Centennial Mall South
Lincoln, NE  68508
Phone: 402-474-3183
Fax: 402-474-3274
Email: nas@nas-pa.org

NE Health and Human Services Finance and Support
Mary Steiner, Interim Medicaid Administrator
301 Centennial Mall South, 5th Floor
Lincoln, NE  68509
Phone: 402-471-9178
Fax: 402-471-9092

Veterans Affairs
John Hilgert, State Director of Veterans Affairs
NE
Email: mailto:jhilgert@notes.state.ne.us

Department of Labor
Kathy Plager, One Stop/Workforce Coordinator
P.O. Box 94600
550 South 16th Street Room 309
Lincoln, NE  68509-4600
Phone: 402-471-9928
Fax: 402-471-2318

Workforce Investment Board - Nebraska Workforce Development
Steve Porr, Program Coordinator
550 South 16th Street
Lincoln, NE  68509
Phone: 402-471-9977
Fax: 402-471-3050
Email: sporr@dol.state.ne.us

CIL Of Central Nebraska, Inc.
Sid Cook, Executive Director
1804 South Eddy Street
Grand Island, NE  68801
Phone: 308-382-9255
Fax: 308-384-9231
Email: scook@gionline.net

League Of Human Dignity, Inc.
Mike Schafer, Executive Director
1701 P Street
Lincoln, NE  68508-1741
Phone: 402-441-7871
Fax: 402-441-7650
Email: League@navix.net

Panhandle IL Services
Carolyn Foged, Executive Director
P.O. Box 2454
Scottsbluff, NE  69363
Phone: 308-635-7901
Fax: 308-635-7676
Email: pils@prairieweb.com

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