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2011 DISABILITY POLICY SEMINAR FACT SHEETS

The 2011 Disability Policy Seminar provided us with nine fact sheets to distribute widely. The sheets cover upcoming challenges that we'll face in various fields, from SSDI and Medicaid/Medicare funding to housing and employment issues for people with disabilities. Click HERE to download those fact sheets.

Information on Medicaid Expenditures:

FY 2006: Medicaid Expenditures for Institutions versus Community-Based Services, Information Bulletin #216 (8/07)

Information on the Waiting List

State of the State in Developmental Disabilities
The hardcopy version of the 2011 monograph — The State of the States in Developmental Disabilities: 2011 (Braddock, Hemp, Rizzolo, Haffer, Tanis & Wu, 2011) — is available and has been updated with new "State Profiles" presenting data through fiscal year 2009.

A virtual community of support for a successful transition from school to the future.

www.transitionmap.org

Status Report: Litigation Concerning Home and Community Servcie for People with Disabilities

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How Many People are Waiting in the United States? Sit Down!

Coleman Report - State of the States in Developmental Disabilities, 2008 reports:

4,691,450 person with ID/DD in US

716,821 living with family caregivers who are 60+ years in age.

991,144 living with family caregivers who are 41-59 years of age

Take the Waiver Please!

Since 2007 the PA Waiting List Campaign has been working with advocates and professionals in the field to target the reasons why we have a waiting list and recommendations to eliminate it. This is the end product. Please make sure your legislators have a copy.

The Advisory Committee Report on the Waiting List for Community-Based intellectual/developmental disabilities Services

NEWS

Families waiting for developmental disabilities services feel betrayed by state - The Santa Fe New Mexican

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Concerns with care in PA

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