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Showing posts with label Deinstitutionalization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Deinstitutionalization. Show all posts
Monday, September 30, 2019

Pennsylvania legislators propose a moratorium on the closing of two state facilities for people with intellectual disabilities

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Residents and families of two Pennsylvania state-operated ICFs/IID will get a reprieve from closure. See blog post on the decision to close...
Thursday, March 7, 2019

Group Living in Ann Arbor: OK for Young Professionals and Students, but not for Adults with Disabilities???

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This is about an article in the Ann Arbor News , “Group-living townhouses with co-working space will target young professionals in Ann Arb...
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Saturday, March 2, 2019

Words Matter: The Language of Disability

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The article below is from the November 9, 2018 VOR Weekly News Update by VOR’s Executive Director Hugo Dwyer. VOR , a “Voice Of Reason”, ...
Monday, May 21, 2018

People with severe IDD and those with Serious Mental Illness experience similar barriers to treatment and care

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This is a talk by D.J. Jaffe from MentalIllnessPolicy.org on barriers to treatment for people with serious mental illness. It was p...
Friday, May 4, 2018

Forced de-institutionalization of people with DD: lives lost and lives disrupted

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The following is an article is from The Voice: News and Views of VOR Supporters for Spring 2018.  VOR is a national non-profit orga...
Friday, October 6, 2017

People with severe autism with nowhere to go

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This is a long article from Kaiser Health News ( KHN ), a nonprofit news service committed to in-depth coverage of health care policy and...
Friday, August 25, 2017

Comments to the U.S. Department of Justice on the "Integration Mandate"

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The U.S. Department of Justice recently issued a request for comments, in response to Executive Order 13777, which requires federal agenci...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

Maryland: State turns a deaf ear to families and community as it moves relentlessly to close a facility for ID/DD

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Holly Center in Salisbury, MD, is an Intermediate Care Facility and home for people with profound intellectual and behavioral disabilitie...
Sunday, February 7, 2016

Washington State : ICFs providing necessary services

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Washington State Re sidential H abilitation Centers are part of the full range of services necessary to serve people with developmental di...
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...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Connecticut: Southbury Training School seen by inclusion advocate in a new light

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Micaela Connery is an inclusion advocate and a Master in Public Policy Candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School focusing on disability, in...