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Legal > Advocacy
Guardianship and Developmental Disabilities
Surrogate Decision Making for People...Surrogate Decision Making for People with Developmental...financial, and medical decisions for herself, but...legal, financial, and residential decisions for her....financial, and residential decisions for her. Susie, however,...financial, and medical decisions for him. Guardianship...appoints someone to make decisions for a person who...
Legal > Government Benefits
Maryland Is Cutting $250 Million in Disability Services. Families Have Days to Push Back.
...27, to reconcile differences between the two chambers. That's the final decision point before the budget is locked. If your family depends on DDA services...received services through DDA waivers. Services include personal care, residential support, day programs, job coaching, and respite care. Unlike other Medicaid...
Financial > Government Benefits
Medicaid Waiver Waiting Lists: How to Access Services While You Wait (and How to Jump the Line)
...toileting) Respite care for family caregivers Supported employment and job coaching Adult day programs Home modifications and assistive technology Residential habilitation Federal law doesn't require states to offer waivers, and states can cap enrollment. When more people qualify than a state is willing...
Legal > Government Benefits
Idaho Passed $22M in Medicaid Disability Cuts. Here's What Families Can Do Before the Governor Signs.
...The bill cuts provider reimbursement rates for residential habilitation services. Combined with last year's...reduces how much Idaho Medicaid pays providers for residential habilitation services by $21.8 million in fiscal...services by $21.8 million in fiscal year 2027. Residential habilitation includes group homes, supported...
Legal > Government Benefits
When Your Medicaid Provider Stops Taking Patients: What Families Can Do
...you've been going to for three years, or the residential habilitation program that's been a lifeline is...services, reducing provider reimbursement rates for residential habilitation programs. Combined with last year's...how much they pay therapists, dentists, and residential programs for serving Medicaid patients. A provider...
Financial > Grants
The Lifespan Respite Care Program Was Just Renewed: Here's What Caregivers Can Get From It
...programs that let you choose your own respite provider. Others fund networks that match families with trained workers. Some programs cover short-term residential care for situations where a family caregiver becomes ill or has an emergency. The goal in each case is the same: creating real options for people...
Legal > Housing
Finding Home: Decoding Housing Laws for Special Needs Individuals
...needs individuals have established protections. The Federal Fair Housing Act, for instance, prohibits discrimination based on disability in any residential real estate transactions such as rentals and sales. This means that housing providers, including landlords and real estate companies, cannot refuse...
Financial > Housing Assistance
Wanted: A Place of My Own
Living Innovations pioneers a new residential model: Shared Living. For...living on our own, getting a job, making new friends and finding our place...group homes offered one of the few residential alternatives for people who need...been a pioneer in offering a new residential option – Shared Living – in which...
Parenting > Self-Care
What Happens Next?
...spend several years bringing their child through school and therapy, and they almost forget about what happens next, when their child is ready for a residential program or life on their own. The teenage and young adulthood years are difficult for any child and parent, and it can seem like the obstacles these...
Education > Higher Education
For Teens in Transition, an Opportunity
...he and his family saw an answer to their growing challenges. Created in 2008 to respond to the growing, unmet need of this population, SAE is a residential transition-to-independence program for young adults aged 18 to 25 who have social, emotional, or learning challenges. The program...
Legal > Government Benefits
Maryland's $250 Million Disability Cut Is Locked In. What DDA Waiver Families Should Do Now.
...people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. In fiscal 2025, 19,100 Marylanders received services through DDA waivers: personal care, residential support, day programs, job coaching, and respite care. Waivers aren't entitlements. States control enrollment and funding. Maryland has faced chronic...