…health care to autistic people of many different cultures) Services and supports: Augmentative/alternative communication (AAC) and communication strategies Home and community-based services (HCBS) Education Therapies & interventions besides mental health…
…strongly recommend that required re-balancing measures include not only shifts towards HCBS from ICFs/SNFs/IMDs but also shifts towards less restrictive forms of HCBS from more restrictive HCBS, consistent with the…
…to a national average of $144,609 per ICF-DD residents and $42,713 per recipient of HCBS waiver funding4. The significantly elevated cost of ICF placement is unsurprising and likely the result…
…the Senate to include it too. This funding is a life and death issue for disabled Californians. Please support HCBS funding in the next reconciliation package and keep us in…
…towards the 75% requirement. Prohibiting HCBS funding from flowing to gated communities, farmsteads and other campus based residential programs. The state’s transition plan indicates that the state will prohibit HCBS…
What does community mean to you? For some people, this question doesn’t mean much but for the hundreds of thousands of Americans receiving Medicaid Home and Community Based Services (HCBS),…
…are job coaches or in-home helpers. When people get LTSS in their own communities, that is called home and community based services (HCBS). Some parents with disabilities get HCBS. They…
Dear friends, What’s scarier than ghosts and ghouls? Not enough funding for community supports! This October, we’ve been hard at work fighting for funding for home- and community-based services (HCBS),…
…and how. Medicaid-funded HCBS services, for example, must be delivered according to the dictates of an individual’s person-centered plan. Nonetheless the final report repeatedly and generically references person-centered planning concepts…
…DC vigil, virtual vigil, and the many other vigils here. On March 17th, the Home- and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Settings Rule went into effect. This Rule is all about our…
