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Showing posts with label DD Act programs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DD Act programs. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

What's old is new again: Regulating community services for people with disabilities: a promise fulfilled or a barrier to appropriate services?

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This is a post from The DD News Blog for August 12, 2018. Not much has changed since then, with the exception of a worldwide pandemic that k...
Monday, April 17, 2023

Ohio: A Joint Committee finds the current system of protection and advocacy intentionally fails to protect and advocate for all individuals with disabilities

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The Federal Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000, ( The DD Act ), establishes Protection and Advocacy agenci...
Thursday, December 6, 2018

VOR, "a Voice Of Reason", comments on a National Council on Disability report on guardianship, Part 2

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The National Council on Disability ( NCD ) Report, " Beyond Guardianship: Toward Alternatives  That Promote Greater Self-Determinati...
Sunday, August 12, 2018

Regulating community services for people with disabilities: a promise fulfilled or a barrier to appropriate services?

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In 2014, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued “ the Settings Rule ” as an attempt to regulate how and where Medic...
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Thursday, July 19, 2018

Delaware DD Council Misconduct

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A special investigation of the Delaware Developmental Disabilities Council by the State Auditor found violations of state, federal, and i...
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Wednesday, April 4, 2018

"Representative Payees" and the expanded role of Protection & Advocacy Agencies

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The Strengthening Protections for Social Security Beneficiaries Act of 2018 was recently passed by Congress and signed by the President....
Monday, July 24, 2017

Diluting Guardianship Rights

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In the VOR archives is a 2009 letter from Sam Golden, the Chair of VOR's Government Affairs Committee, to the American Bar Associati...
Friday, May 13, 2016

Michigan DD Council seeks public comment on 2017-2021 Five-Year Plan

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from the Michigan DD Council:    The Michigan Developmental Disabilities Council (MDDC) has drafted its 2017-2021 State Plan. Goals and...
Wednesday, December 23, 2015

The DD Act Purpose : Promoting DD Act Goals

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This is an annotated version of the “purpose” of The Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 with my comments...