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Showing posts with label Community Living. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Community Living. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

More Choices for people with IDD and their families in Washtenaw County, Michigan

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This is a note from Becky Altschuler, another resourceful parent who is creating a program for adults who are not candidates for vocatio...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

California : Crisis in Community Care and the Desperate Situation for Service Providers

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This is from Bay Area Autism News , September 2015: "The Desperate Situation for Service Providers" Carol McKinney from Ha...
Sunday, August 2, 2015

Maryland: Physical fitness and people with disabilities

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from:   Inclusive Gym Gets People With Disabilities in Fitness Spirit by June Soh ...
Monday, June 22, 2015

Some seniors imprisoned by their independence

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People who have severe developmental disabilities, mental illness, or physical disabilities with medical complications, or any combination...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Summary of 4/14/15 meeting on community living services in Washtenaw County, MI

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The 4/14/15 meeting in Ann Arbor was sponsored by the Washtenaw Community Health Organization (WCHO) and Community Supports and Treatment ...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Washtenaw County, MI : CMH to announce rate decrease for Community Living Services

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Update 4/16/15 : About 100 people attended the WCHO/CSTS meeting on Tuesday, April 14, 2015 to discuss Community Living Services and pot...
Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Videos: CA innovative housing for Autism and other DD

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[ These are videos from the San Francisco Bay Area Autism Society housing conference, May 10, 2014.] Part 1: Autism / Developmental Disab...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

"Community" is in the eye of the beholder

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  The stigma of “congregate settings” for those with disabilities stems from a troubling history, but we shouldn’t be creating barriers t...
Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Old News is Good News for Disability Housing Choices

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I missed this story in January, but it is an important one.  Remember the foofaraw in April of 2013 when the U.S. Department of Housing...
Thursday, March 6, 2014

DD Services : Wayne County Michigan

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Winter Extended Ed Diegel, a parent from DD Advocates of Michigan , has been covering problems with the service delivery system for peop...
Friday, February 28, 2014

Coalition for Community Choice : A unified voice for increasing housing choices for people with disabilities

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This is from the Madison House Autism Foundation website, encouraging participation in a new coalition of groups supporting a broad range...
Friday, October 25, 2013

More housing projects for people with autism and other disabilities

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" The Architecture for Autism " by Michael Tortorello is an article from the New York Times, 10/9/13, about new parent-initiated...
Friday, September 27, 2013

VOR: Respecting Individual Choice

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VOR is a national organization that supports a full range of service and residential options to meet the diverse needs of people with dis...
Saturday, July 20, 2013

An inclusive community prison for violent felon with DD

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This is a video of a TV news report from WMTV in Madison, 7/18/13, about a violent 26-year-old felon with developmental disabilities who is...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Benjamin's Hope : a community for people with autism and other developmental disabilities

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From the Website for Benjamin's Hope in Ottawa County, Michigan: Benjamin's Hope will be a first of its kind community model...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

Community Living: the Medicaid customer service mess

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Happy Dan Government-funded advocates from all over the country are intent on liberating people from institutions that provide them wit...