HCBS Advocates Toolkit
…In January, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new rule that may help people get the services they need in truly integrated settings. The new rule…
September 15, 2014
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January 2013 Newsletter
…implementing the next phases of The Loud Hands Project in the near future. This will include launching an in-depth, interactive website that will provide information and resources related to self-advocacy,…
January 29, 2013
Sign the petition against school abuse
…The article, describing an incident in which a teacher put an Autistic child in a bag with a drawstring in a school hallway, can be read on national news sites…
December 31, 2011
Disability Community Condemns Autism Speaks
…exploiting those it purports to help. The letter will be released on Wednesday, October 7 by the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN), the leading advocacy organization run by and for…
October 7, 2009
Supported Decision-making: Why the Right to Make Choices With Support Matters
…for Supported Decision-making’s website, on the “In Your State” section. If it is not there, search the term “ [name of your state in brackets] supported decision-making law,” for example…
June 25, 2020
Call for Action to End the Judge Rotenberg Center and Aversives
…in his back and another’s grip on his arm.”3 The JRC website describes these practices as “intensive treatment procedures”4 but almost every national disability organization agrees that the use of…
October 12, 2009
ASAN Unveils Toolkit for Advocates on New Home and Community-Based Settings Rules
…(CMS) announced a new rule that may help people get the services they need in truly integrated settings. The new rule sets forth standards for the settings where people receive…
September 22, 2014
The Institutional Bias: What It Is, Why It Is Bad, and the Laws, Programs, and Policies Which Would Change It
…using rules about who can get LTSS that deny any group of people who need it access to it in the community limiting services in the community by limiting how…
June 25, 2020
Community Living Is A Human Right: How To Fight For Services, Supports, and Real Homes for Disabled People
…usually did not decide to live there. They were put there by someone else. Institutions are not run by the people living there. Institutions are run by the people who…
June 25, 2020
Julia Bascom’s Speech for ASAN Gala 2019
…for community living research and policy, the HCBS Settings Rule, and the right to vote. We worked with the National Council on Disability to put out a report on the…
November 22, 2019