Posts filed under: housing

May 29, 2010
Houston Chronicle
State says it can staff mental facilities
State officials expressed confidence Thursday they will be able to address “extremely serious staffing concerns” and a 60 percent turnover rate among workers who provide direct care to Texans with mental disabilities in the Lubbock State Supported Living Center.
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Filed Under: developmental disability, healthcare, housing, intellectual disability, long-term care, psychiatric disability, public policy

May 20, 2010
The Wall Street Journal
Disabled Face Hard Choices as States Slash Medicaid
Tandem forces of shrinking state budgets and rising health-care costs have collided and struck a small brick ranch house in this rural town, home to Barbara Hickey.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), healthcare, housing, long-term care, Olmsted decision, public policy

May 10, 2010
KPCC-FM (Pasadena, Calif.)
Disability rights advocates split over closure of Lanterman center
The Lanterman Development Center in Pomona cares for people who are developmentally disabled. It’s named for Frank Lanterman — the Republican lawmaker who was the driving force behind changes in California’s care of the mentally disabled in the 1960s. He fought to improve care at state-run facilities. Now the one that bears his name is due to close. At a recent Sacramento hearing, advocates for the disabled were split over the closure.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), healthcare, housing, long-term care, Olmsted decision, public policy

March 30, 2010
Twin Cities Daily Planet (Minneapolis, Minn.)
Minnesota: Saying "sorry" for treatment of persons with disabilities
Manny Steinman was only a child during the eight years he spent at Faribault State Hospital, but some things he'll never forget.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), criminal justice, housing, long-term care, Olmsted decision

March 29, 2010
Concord (N.H.) Monitor
Disability waiting list mustn't return
There was cause for celebration only a few short months ago, when the state's waiting list for people who qualify for services for the developmentally disabled was finally eliminated. But the joy was short-lived and replaced by trepidation.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), developmental disability, healthcare, housing, long-term care, Olmsted decision, public policy

March 26, 2010
The Annapolis (Md.) Capital
Guest Column: People with disabilities remain an underutilized resource
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act that gave millions of previously forgotten citizens the legal right to more fully participate in American life.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), disability awareness, employment, healthcare, housing, long-term care, public policy

March 23, 2010
KOMU-TV (Columbia, Mo.)
Missourians With Disabilities Rally For Rights
Hundreds of Missourians rallied Tuesday against cuts to disability services and promote equality for Missourians with and without disabilities.
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Filed Under: housing, politics, public policy

March 19, 2010
Austin (Texas) American-Statesman
Report: State facility for people with disabilities lacks psychiatrists, trained therapists
Nine months after Texas and the U.S. Department of Justice entered into a settlement to improve health care and more quickly investigate reports of abuse and neglect at state institutions for people with mental disabilities, the facility in Corpus Christi doesn't have staff psychiatrists, has therapists who are ill-equipped to work with people with complex needs and doesn't have a clear zero-tolerance policy for abuse and neglect.
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Filed Under: developmental disability, healthcare, housing, intellectual disability, long-term care

March 15, 2010
Olympia (Wash.) Newswire
Compromise Would Save Disability Program, But Cut 1,200
After weeks of negotiations on proposals that were far apart, the House and Senate have crafted a compromise bill to save the $339-a-month cash grant and medical coverage that the temporarily disabled receive through the state’s General Assistance-Unemployable program. But 1,200 people are expected to be cut from the GAU rolls on Sept. 1.
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Filed Under: healthcare, housing, Social Security

March 12, 2010
The (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger
N.J. Gov. Chris Christie pledges to restore $2M to move disabled to new housing
The Christie administration today pledged to restore a $2 million budget cut made last month, paving the way for 14 people with developmental disabilities who were waiting to leave institutional care for community housing to relocate as soon as possible, a state official confirmed.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), developmental disability, healthcare, housing, long-term care, Olmsted decision, public policy

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