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2006
December
Project
Advises Congregations To Include Disability In Disaster Planning
Maltese
Church Introduces Inclusion Guidelines
Woman Gets Positive New Labels After
Rescuing Family
November
Measure Would
Reduce Wait Times
Decision Could
Help Thousands Leave Illinois Nursing Homes
Fewer Older Americans Use Nursing Homes,
Study Reveals
Readers:
Newspaper Wrongly Focused On Isolated Negatives In Community
Advocates Celebrate 'Institution-Free'
New Zealand
Advocates: Report
On Institutions Should Have Been Released Months Ago
British Report: Needs Of Families Are
Not Met
Legislator Says Goals To
Move People From Institutions Are 'Illegal'
Community Advocates Oppose Kansas Plan To
Reopen Closed Psych Unit
October
Pennsylvania Becomes More
"Visitable"
Settlement Means
Community Supports For Tens Of Thousands
'Choices For Care' Features Alternatives
To Nursing Homes
Community
Advocates Call For Closing Troubled Nebraska Institution
Community Effort Creates Accessible
Homes
DOJ Settles Apartment
Suit Against Developers, Builders, Architects And Engineers
September
New
Hampshire's Commitment To Community Warrants Tossing Lawsuit, Judge
Says
Couple Bucks Neighborhood
Resistance To Move Ahead With Their Dream
Ohio To Move 1,500 Into Communities To
Settle 17-Year-Old Suit
Independent Living Critics: Promises Got
Bound Up In Red Tape
'Unlikely Alliance' Struck Between
Advocates And Administration
Feds Announce More 'Real Choice'
Grants
More Independence
Through Web-Cam Monitoring?
ADAPT's Peaceful Actions Net
Community Support Meetings With Top Officials
FEMA Settles Inaccessible Trailers
Case
August
Community Advocates Battle
Developers Over Mixed-Income Housing
Community Activists Protest Nursing Home
Stay Requirement
Lawmakers,
Governor, Veterans Squabble Over Shuttered Facility
Settlement Allows Goats To Stay
With Boy
Community Advocates
Celebrate Passage Of "Equal Choice" Bill
City Settles Lawsuit Over Group Home
Locations
Advocates Join
Cost-Saving Debate To Push For Closing Institution
Gutsy Good Samaritan Urges FEMA To
'Make Themselves Useful'
July
Advocates Pack
Meeting On Community Supports
Couple Removes Sign Targeting Teenage
Neighbor
Justice Department:
County Rejected Group Homes Because Of Residents' Disabilities
June
Citing Olmstead
Decision, Georgia Settles Long-Term Care Lawsuit
Prospective Law Student Goes After
University For Housing Mistake
New Independent Living Initiative
Launched
Handcuffed, Senior
Activists Rally To Demand Freedom From Nursing Homes
Former Alabama Official To Head Up Troubled
D.C. Agency
Woman Defends
Her Chickens
May
Study: Caregiver
Traits Could Increase Dementia Symptoms
Blagojevich Shows Signs Of Dropping LDC
Plan
Advocates Call For Reform
Of Residential Services
Freedom
Campaigner Turns Away From Media Attention
Advocates Claim State's Support Of
Special Nursing Homes Violates Residents Rights
April
Judge Orders
Insurance Company To Pay For Nashville Man's Hospital Stay
Group Sues State Over Fircrest
Moves
Latest Housing Trend:
Spiffed-Up Psychiatric Institutions
Community Advocates Resolve To Bring
"Money Follows The Person" Back Next Year
Feds Go After Apartment Complex For
Refusing To Adjust Man's Rental Due Date
Agnews Closure Delayed Another
Year
Advocates Divided Over
Scrapped Mental Health Bill
March
Community
Advocates Asks Feds To Deny Funds For "Lincoln Estates" Plan
Judge Approves Settlement To Reduce
Community Waiting List, Despite Pro-Institution Challenges
Activists Thank City And Police Following
Protests
Demonstrators
Deliver Demands To TennCare And HUD Offices
Dozens Of Community Advocates Arrested
After Blocking Downtown Traffic
Judge Grants Class Action Status To
Illinois Community Living Lawsuit
Waiting List Does Not Violate Rights,
Judge Rules
Young Pen Pals
From Two Continents Meet
February
Nursing
Homes Continue To Close As People Choose Community Options
Panel Loosens Group Home Distance
Restrictions
Idaho Lawmakers
Consider Closing Residential School
Community Advocates Celebrate Passage
Of "Money Follows The Person Act"
Advocates To Utah Lawmakers: "End The
Waiting List"
Moms Save
Park And Make It Accessible To All Kids
Taft's Plan To Close Another Institution
Becomes Reality This Weekend
Demand Grows For Adopting Children With
Down Syndrome
Community
Protection Measure Will Not Protect Participants' Rights, Advocates
Argue
Federal Judge Gives State
Green Light To Close Institution
Olmstead Decision Leads Iowa Counties To
Close Institutions
January
B.C. Lawmaker
Promises To Introduce Canadians With Disabilities Act
City To Loosen Group Home Zoning
Rules
Man Says Cat Came To His
Rescue
Theater Program Adapts
To Vets
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2005
December
City
Officials Defend Group Home Approval
Blind Woman Victorious In Condo Dog
Walking Challenge
November
Capital
Area Group Homes Back In The News
Council Fines Woman For Removing Heavy
Door From Her Cottage
Battle
Over Wheelchair Lift Leaves Woman Stranded In Condo
Community Advocates Call On Governor For
Funds To End Waiting List
Newspaper Series Blasts Washington
'Community Protection' Program
Three Hundred To Move From Agnews In
Next 20 Months
October
Hundreds
Of Hurricane Wilma Survivors Still Wait For Housing
Some Ex-Soviet States Move Toward
Inclusion
Illinois Advocates
Ride And Rally For Community Supports
Illinois Advocates Launch "Freedom Ride
'05"
Disability Advocates
Criticize FEMA's Slow Housing Response
September
Advocacy
Group Sues State To Switch Money From Institutions To Community
Supports
ADAPT
Advocates Get Commitments From HUD And NGA
ADAPT Protesters Take Over Offices
Of Congressional Leadership
Study:
More Than A Million Children Care For Family Members
Group Home Threatened With Violence,
Arson
Judge Rejects Class-Action
Status In Discrimination Suit
August
1,4000 Alabamans
Still Wait For Services
Where
Did This Money Come From?
Studies: Nursing Homes Increased In Size
And Decreased In Quality, As More Residents Chose Community Options
Texas Families Continue To Wait For
Community Services
Protesters
Toll Bells Across Tennessee Over Health Care Cuts
July
Advocates Sue
Illinois To Live In The Community
Tennessee Sit-In Passes One-Month
Mark
TennCare Protest Nears
One-Month Mark
Village Votes To
Allow Group Home
Young Man Goes
From "Persistent Vegetative State" To Self-Determined Life
Residents Ask Town Board To Stop New Group
Home
Protesters Continue
Occupation At Governor's Building
Indiana To Ask Waiver Holders To Make Room
For Those On Waiting Lists
Tennessee Governor Continues To
Resist Advocates; Occupation Of Office Nears Third Week
June
Tennessee
Disability Rights Activists Take Over Governor's Office, Demand Changes In
Health Care Budget
Huge
Apartment Accessibility Suit Settled
Feds Investigate County For Violating
Group Home Residents' Rights
Lee County Planners Require Accessible
Design In Affordable Housing
May
New Yorkers Keep
Waiting For Medicaid Waiver
April
Mississippi
Governor Vetoes In-home Health And Vulnerable Adult Bill
Ohio Paper Features Series On People With
Mental Disabilities Living In The Community
Agency Urges Illinois To Close Another
Institution
Advocates Accuse
Agency Of Discriminating Against Cohabitating Adults
March
South Dakota
Makes Permanent A Ban On New Nursing Homes
Muscatatuck
In Final Days
State Report:
It's Time To Switch Money From Institutions To Communities
Framework Outlines Better Treatment For
Patients With Head Injuries
Charity Responds To Community Movement By
Making Major Shift Toward Inclusion
ADAPT Secures Community Resolution
From Governors
Disability
Coalition Pushes For Accessible Reading Formats
Lonely For Much Of His Life, Roger Now Has
Family And His Own Room
February
CMS
Administrator McClellan Shows Support For Medicaid Reforms
Alabama Teenager To Continue Receiving
In-Home Nursing
Study:
Spouses More Likely To Abuse
Advocates To Meet With CMS Director
McClellan
Artist Finds True
Love Online
MiCASSA
Introduced Into Congress Again
State And Participants Alike Like 'Real
Life Choices'
State
Closes Fircrest Cottages Ahead Of Schedule
Innovative Day Program Idea: New ADAPT
Chapter Start-Up?
Message From
Georgia Advocates To Lawmakers: "Free Our People!"
South Dakota Senate Approves Ban On New
Nursing Home Beds
January
Builders Come
Together To Construct Ramp For Six-year-old
Kentucky Proposal Would Shift Money From
Nursing Homes To Communities
School Mates Connect After 34
Years
Individualized Budgets
Are Cornerstone Of Blair Disabilities Benefit Reform Plan
ADAPT Calls On Governors To Remove
Institutional Bias
Agnews
Developmental Center To Close In June 2007, Official Says
Brother, 62, Meets Family For The First
Time
Down-sizing Ohio
Institutions Ahead Of Schedule
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2004
December
Community
Embraces Local Hero
Louisiana
Long-Term Care Plan Could "Blast" State Into 21st Century
Settlement Good News For Hundreds On
Connecticut Waiting List
More
Options For New Yorkers With Developmental Disabilities Coming Of Age
State To Revise Emergency Contact Rules
In "Danielle's Law"
Community
Advocate Elaine Wilson Dies
November
Salvation
Army To Drop Nursing Homes
Planning Commission Reconsiders Permit For
Group Home
Family, TV Station
Overwhelmed By Response To Lauren Rainey Story
Justice Settles Housing Discrimination
Suit With Six Architectural And Building Firms
Advocacy Coalition Gives Lawmakers List
Of Demands
Report: Move Medicaid
Money To Communities
Another
Alabaman At Risk Over Medicaid Bureaucracy
October
Attendant
Saves Lives Of 42 "Group Home" Residents
Teen Has Sights Set On Having His Own
Place
Community Coalition
Calls On Governor To End 'Emergency' Wait List
Low-Income Nursing Home Residents Can
Move To Community Under New Program
Fresh Paint Job Signals New Lease On
Life For Jimmy Gray And His House
Psst! We Really Need To Talk -- About
Sex
September
Washington
State Study Finds Community Costs Less (Sept. 28, 2004)
No NIMBYs In This Neighborhood (Sept.
22, 2004)
Coalition Seeks To
Move Young People Out Of Nursing Homes (Sept. 16, 2004)
Money From Fairview Sale To Go To
Individuals And Families (Sept. 14, 2004)
Ontario To Be Institution-Free By 2009
(Sept. 13, 2004)
Stable Homes
Best For Kids With FAE/FAS (Sept. 8, 2004)
Project To Enhance Social Inclusion
Across Canada (Sept. 7, 2004)
School Can Ban Boy From Playground, Judge
Says (Sept. 1, 2004)
August
Community
Groups Seek Accessibility Changes From Louisville Businesses (August 26,
2004)
"Advocates For Disabled
Say Thousands May Be In Institutions Needlessly" (August 23, 2004)
Keeping His Own Home Is Closer To
Reality For Jimmy Gray (August 10, 2004)
Condo Owners Say They're Not NIMBYs, They
Just Don't Want 'Special People' Around (August 5, 2004)
450 Can Move From Indiana Nursing Homes
(August 5, 2004)
Are Adult Homes
Spending Enough On Food? (August 4, 2004)
"Those Who Are 'Not Normal' Need Not
Apply" (August 3, 2004)
Feds Cite California For Laguna
Honda Civil Rights Violations (August 3, 2004)
Network Reaches Into Nursing Homes To
Help Residents Gain Their Freedom (August 2, 2004)
July
Women With Down
Syndrome Say Treatment At Fitness Club Was Unfair (July 29, 2004)
N.O.D. Taking Applications For Accessible
America Contest (July 29, 2004)
World Bank Works To Reduce
Segregation And Poverty For People With Disabilities (July 27, 2004)
Twenty-First Birthday Could Be Disastrous
For Ramos (July 23, 2004)
Urged
By Protests, Governors Agree To Consider Community Resolution (July 20,
2004)
Community
Advocates Respond To Efforts To Keep Fernald Open (July 20, 2004)
Program To Move Folks Out Of Nursing Homes
Expands (July 12, 2004)
Ohio
Settles 1989 Lawsuit For Community Supports (July 2, 2004)
June
Neighbors Say Group
Homes Are Good For Their Neighborhoods (June 28, 2004)
Home Of Olmstead Celebrates Five
Year Mark Of Landmark Disability-Rights Case (June 17, 2004)
Sisters Meet After 65-year Absence (June 14,
2004)
Budget Cuts May Prompt Moves
To Community (June 9, 2004)
Heads Of Disability Groups Meet With Bush
Administration Officials (June 7, 2004)
Jimmy Gray Gives OK To Property Renovations
(June 1, 2004)
May
New Hampshire
Council Shifts Funds From Nursing Homes To In-Home Supports (May 20,
2004)
Gray Resists Plans To
Renovate House (May 17, 2004)
People On Waiting Lists Score Legal
Victory In Pennsylvania (May 13, 2004)
Alabama Receives Kudos For
De-institutionalization Efforts, Even From Former Critics (May 11,
2004)
Aid Pours In For Jimmy Gray
(May 10, 2004)
April
Schwarzenegger
Reverses Position On In-home Care Cuts -- If Feds Provide Funds (April 27,
2004)
Demonstrators Want State
To Restore In-Home Services And Medications (April 21, 2004)
Senate Finance Committee Holds Hearing On
Community-Based Services (April 7, 2004)
March
Senate To Hold
Hearings On Institutional Bias (March 31, 2004)
British Government "Facing Both Ways" On
'Village Communities', Advocates Claim (March 31, 2004)
Alabama Medicaid Policy Blamed For
Friend's Death (March 29, 2004)
Busy, Productive Week For ADAPT In DC
(March 25, 2004)
ADAPT Marchers
In DC Demanding End To "Stolen Lives" (March 18, 2004)
Mom Turned Watchdog For Community
Supports (March 16, 2004)
Community Advocates Accuse TV News
Program Of Slanting Report On Group Homes (March 15, 2004)
Man Can Move Out Of Nursing Home,
Appellate Court Rules (March 9, 2004)
Group Pushes To Get Young Australians Out
Of Nursing Homes (March 5, 2004)
Ministry Bridges Gaps To Inclusion (March 1,
2004)
February
Paper
Praises Advocacy Office For Olmstead Work (Feb. 27, 2004)
One Year Later, Community Supporters
Continue Push To Close Fernald (Feb. 25, 2004)
Bill Increases Illegal Parking Penalties;
Fines To Benefit Personal Care Program (Feb. 24, 2004)
Governor Abolishes Nursing Facilities In
Community Integration Effort (Feb. 20, 2004)
Neighborhood Association Faulted For
Discrimination (Feb. 13, 2004)
Personal Care Recipients Would Choose Own
Providers Under Pilot Project (Feb. 3, 2004)
January
Rosewood Center
Recommended For Closure, But No Time Soon (Jan. 27, 2004)
United 874K Coalition Rallies For Less
Cuts To Services (Jan. 15, 2004)
'Village' Concept Is, Like, 'So 20th
Century' (Jan. 14, 2004)
Former
Institution Residents Succeed With New Freedom (Jan. 2, 2004)
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2003
December
More People
With Developmental Disabilities Celebrate At Home (Dec. 23, 2003)
With A Little Help From His Friends Man
Has New Home (Dec. 19, 2003)
Group's Solution To Post-Institution
Land-Use: Build "Community" On Fernald Site (Dec. 18, 2003)
Schwarzenegger Reverses Position On Cuts
(Dec. 18, 2003)
State Grants
Funds To Families To Reduce Waiting List (Dec. 16, 2003)
Governor Won't Be Held Hostage By
Institution Supporters (Dec. 15, 2003)
Hundreds Of Advocates Protest
Schwarzenegger Budget Limits (Dec. 12, 2003)
Woman Ordered To Leave Neighbor Boy Alone
(Dec. 1, 2003)
Schwarzenegger's
Budget Plan Has Advocates Worried (Dec. 1, 2003)
November
Town Must Allow
Group Home, Commissioner Rules (Nov. 26, 2003)
Group Wants December 2004 Target For
Closing Britain's Institutions (Nov. 19, 2003)
State, Community Providers And Advocates
Spar Over Cuts (Nov. 13, 2003)
State Agency Accused Of Retaliation Against
Service Provider (Nov. 7, 2003)
October
Advocacy
Groups To Gather Signatures For Disability Rights Bill (Oct. 24,
2003)
Neighbors Gather To Clean Up
Community (Oct. 20, 2003)
Advocates Want Money Spent To Reduce
Waiting Lists (Oct. 17, 2003)
County Wants Group Homes To Be Less
Clustered (Oct. 13, 2003)
HHS
Gives $33 Million In Real Choice Systems Change Grants (Oct. 3, 2003)
Men Hold 'Meet And Greet' To Welcome
Their New Neighbors (Oct. 3, 2003)
September
Emergency
Services Fund In Emergency Status (Sept. 30, 2003)
Thousands Call on Congress To "Free Our
People" (Sept. 18, 2003)
Demonstrators Readied For "Free Our
People" Rally (Sept. 16, 2003)
Free Our People Marchers, Advocates Near
Nation's Capital (Sept. 15, 2003)
Free Our People March Rolls Into
Maryland, With Few Hitches (Sept. 8, 2003)
Free Our People March Starts At Liberty
Bell (Sept. 4, 2003)
Network
Recognizes "Fifth Freedom" (Sept. 4, 2003)
August
ADAPT
Protesters To Governors: "Free Our People" (August 21, 2003)
Illegal Zoning Ordinance May Prove
Costly To Township (August 14, 2003)
Father And Daughter Sue New Jersey For
Institution Bias (August 7, 2003)
Kansas Waiting List To Dwindle (August 5,
2003)
Eligibility Reviews For
Caregiver Allowances Put On Hold Following Public Outcry (August 5,
2003)
July
Advocates
Celebrate ADA, Urge MiCASSA Passage (July 28, 2003)
Neighbors Learn Federal Laws Protect New
Residents (July 18, 2003)
Adults
Move Out Of Parents' Homes Following Wait-List Suit (July 17, 2003)
Daughter's Move To Community Is A Success
Story (July 17, 2003)
Township Violated Residents'
Constitutional Rights In Fight Over Home (July 14, 2003)
Massachusetts House Votes To Slow Fernald
Closure (June 10, 2003)
Trend
Toward Individualized Living Has Group Home Supporters Worried (July 9,
2003)
Sawyer Plan Calls For
Closing Alabama Institutions (July 7, 2003)
June
Most Favor
Segregation, International Study Reveals (June 20, 2003)
Federal And State Governments Present
Barriers To Community Supports, Report Says (June 17, 2003)
Conference: Too Many Young People
"Rotting Away" In Nursing Homes (June 17, 2003)
May
Man To Claim
Habitat Home As His Own (May 27, 2003)
Agency Drops "Retarded" From Name; VOR
Disapproves (May 22, 2003)
Advocate Emerges After Years Of
Self-Imposed Exile (May 20, 2003)
Group Home "Pros" Outnumbered "Cons" At
Board Meeting (May 19, 2003)
Activists Shut Down Constitution Avenue
And Gallery Mall To Get On Agenda (May 13, 2003)
Waiting List For Community Services In
Crisis (May 13, 2003)
Activists
Arrested At White House (May 12, 2003)
Activists Seek End Of Institutions,
Demand Apology For "Stolen Lives" (May 9, 2003)
Advocates For Closing Institutions Show
Up In Larger Numbers (May 6, 2003)
MiCASSA Introduced In Senate As S.
971 (May 5, 2003)
April
Fourth Group Home
Can Be Added, State Says (April 23, 2003)
Muscatatuck's Time Has Come, And Gone
(April 24, 2003)
Alabama
Consolidation Means Three Institutions Will Close (April 23, 2003)
Group Home Plan Opposed By Many
Neighbors (April 17, 2003)
Spring Break Is Good Time To Bring Up
MiCASSA (April 16, 2003)
People
Who Direct Personal Care Services Are More Satisfied, Researchers Find (April
15, 2003)
Activists Arrested At
Texas Capitol (April 11, 2003)
Task Force Urges Governor To Slow Down On
Fernald Closure (April 11, 2003)
Advocates Get Change For In-Home Care
Measure (April 8, 2004)
Agency
Sues Neighborhood Association For Rights Violations (April 14, 2003
Locals Petition Against Teen Group Home
(April 3, 2003)
March
Home Of Tommy
Olmstead Still Behind In Olmstead Response (March 31, 2003)
Judge Orders State To Pay Lawyers More
Than They Requested (March 26, 2003)
Students Take Community Message To
Capital (March 21, 2003)
Commission To Look At Closing Kansas
Facilities, Moving People And Money To Community (March 19, 2003)
Law Supports Group Home Residents (March
19, 2003)
Fourth Person
Pleads Guilty In Group Home Prostitute Scandal (March 17, 2003)
Neighbors Fear Group Home Residents
They Haven't Met (March 10, 2003)
Activists Swarm Hearing, Take Capitol
Office, To Protest Pataki Cuts (March 6, 2003)
Waiver Is Best Birthday Present For Nick
Dupree (March 3, 2003)
February
Neighbors Say
Fourth Group Home Is Too Many (Feb. 27, 2003)
Few Residents Interested In Tracking
Bracelet (Feb. 26, 2003)
Government Blamed For Lack Of Community
Supports (Feb. 21, 2003)
Suit
For Community Services Gets Class Action Status (Feb. 19, 2003)
Nick's Crusade Pays Off (Feb. 19,
2003)
Brother To Move Closer To
Family And Freedom (Feb. 18, 2003)
Ohio Names Two Institutions Scheduled To
Close (Feb. 7, 2003)
Persistence Led To Sister's Release From
Institution (Feb. 3, 2003)
January
Lawmaker
Wants Service Dogs As Option For In-home Supports (Jan. 31, 2003)
"Visitability" Measure To Be
Re-Introduced In Congress (Jan. 29, 2003)
Bush To Propose $1.75 Billion For Community
Living Initiatives (Jan. 23, 2003)
Neighbors Don't Want New Apartment
Complex (Jan. 21, 2003)
Advocates
Push For Tax Increase To Shorten Waiting Lists (Jan. 10, 2003)
NIMBY Bites Developers (Jan. 8,
2003)
House Proposal Would Move
Money From Institutions To Community (Jan. 8, 2003)
Parents Try To Break County Line Barrier
(Jan. 7, 2003)
State Budget
Cuts Are Illegal, Community Advocates Claim (Jan. 7, 2003)
Neighbors Cannot Keep Out Group Home
Residents, Court Rules (Jan. 6, 2003)
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2002
December
State Service
System Is Illogical, Immoral And 'Almost Certainly Illegal' (Dec. 30,
2002)
Institution Money Would Be
Moved To Community Programs Under Governor's Plan (Dec. 27, 2002)
Medicaid Does Not Have To Fund In-Home
Services, Judge Rules (Dec. 27, 2002)
Wait List Grows For Community Supports (Dec.
4, 2002)
November
Children And
Families With Disabilities Face Poorest Living Conditions, Survey Says (Nov.
22, 2002)
DOJ Claims
Apartment Complex Discriminates Against People With Disabilities (Nov. 13,
2002)
Medicaid In-Home Care
Recipients To Control Service Funds (Nov. 5, 2002)
State Of Community Services Became
Campaign Issue (Nov. 4, 2002)
State Olmstead Plan Is Not Enough,
Advocates Say (Nov. 1, 2002)
October
City Sued For
Housing Discrimination (October 28, 2002)
United Nations Commission To Extend "Decade
For Disabled Persons" (October 21, 2002)
Louisiana Tops ADAPT List Of Worst
Long-Term Care States (October 9, 2002)
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