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Financial > Financial Planning
Housing Planning for Adults with Disabilities: Group Homes, Supported Living, and Home Ownership
...long-term plan. Group Homes: Residential Programs with 24/7 Staffing....Group Homes: Residential Programs with 24/7 Staffing. A group...Staffing. A group home is a residential facility where several adults...funded: Medicaid waiver programs are the primary funding source...(HCBS) waivers that cover residential support services, including...
Career > Skills Training
Job Corps for Adults with Disabilities: Free Career Training and Support
...at vocational programs that cost $15,000...federally-funded residential training program...residential training program that covers tuition,...Department of Labor program that provides free...nation's largest residential career training...career training program, with 120 centers...70 trades. The program covers everything:...months in the program, some longer depending...
Social Engagement > Community Living
Accessible Housing 101: Finding, Funding, and Moving Into Your Home
...standard, but there are guidelines: the ADA Standards for Accessible Design offer a baseline for what accessible construction looks like, even though residential homes aren't always required to meet them. The takeaway: start with the person. What do they need to move through their day safely and with as much...
Legal > Government Benefits
Maryland Is Cutting $250 Million in Disability Services. Families Have Days to Push Back.
...Administration runs Maryland's Medicaid waiver programs for people with intellectual and...waivers. Services include personal care, residential support, day programs, job coaching,...personal care, residential support, day programs, job coaching, and respite care....respite care. Unlike other Medicaid programs, waivers are not entitlements. States...
Financial > Government Benefits
Medicaid Waiver Waiting Lists: How to Access Services While You Wait (and How to Jump the Line)
...for family caregivers Supported employment and job coaching Adult day programs Home modifications and assistive technology Residential habilitation...coaching Adult day programs Home modifications and assistive technology Residential habilitation Federal law doesn't require states to offer waivers, and...
Legal > Government Benefits
Idaho Passed $22M in Medicaid Disability Cuts. Here's What Families Can Do Before the Governor Signs.
...provider reimbursement rates for residential habilitation services. Combined...Idaho Medicaid pays providers for residential habilitation services by $21.8 million...$21.8 million in fiscal year 2027. Residential habilitation includes group homes,...supported living arrangements, and day programs for adults and children with developmental...
Legal > Government Benefits
When Your Medicaid Provider Stops Taking Patients: What Families Can Do
...three years, or the residential habilitation program...residential habilitation program that's been a lifeline...reimbursement rates for residential habilitation programs....residential habilitation programs. Combined with last...Happening. State Medicaid programs set reimbursement...therapists, dentists, and residential programs for serving...and residential programs for serving Medicaid...
Financial > Grants
The Lifespan Respite Care Program Was Just Renewed: Here's What Caregivers Can Get From It
...Lifespan Respite Care Program was signed into...the few federal programs that exists specifically...and expands the program's definition of eligible...under 18. What the Program Does. The Lifespan...Lifespan Respite Care Program doesn't write checks...states run voucher programs that let you choose...workers. Some programs cover short-term...cover short-term residential care for situations...
Financial > Housing Assistance
Wanted: A Place of My Own
Living Innovations pioneers a new residential model: Shared Living. For...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...include: in-home support, community programs, transition support from school...
Parenting > Self-Care
What Happens Next?
...happens next, when their child is ready for a residential program or life on their own. The teenage and...next, when their child is ready for a residential program or life on their own. The teenage and young adulthood...sources for education and support, but these programs rarely last past a child's school years, usually...
News > Advocacy
ICE Enforcement Is Making It Harder to Staff Group Homes and Disability Services. Here's What Families Need to Know.
...swept through Minneapolis–Saint Paul, leaving the region's group homes, residential programs, and home health services scrambling to cover shifts. Roughly...Minneapolis–Saint Paul, leaving the region's group homes, residential programs, and home health services scrambling to cover shifts. Roughly 30% of...
Legal > Government Benefits
Maryland's $250 Million Disability Cut Is Locked In. What DDA Waiver Families Should Do Now.
...Maryland's Medicaid waiver programs for people with intellectual...DDA waivers: personal care, residential support, day programs, job...residential support, day programs, job coaching, and respite...services. Self-directed care programs are hit hardest. Caregiver...wages under self-directed programs will...