Disabilities Rights Center
Community Living and Inclusion
Issue Areas:
- Abuse/Neglect/ Restraint/Seclusion
- Accessibility and Reasonable Accommodation
- Assistive Technology
- Benefits: Social Security, Medicaid
- Community Living and Inclusion
- Criminal Justice and Incarceration
- Developmental Disabilities
- Employment
- Guardianship and Substituted Decisionmaking
- Housing
- Mental Health
- Special Education and other Children's Issues
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Veterans and Military Families
- Voting
- Main Section
- The Law
- Resources
The Disabilities Rights Center works to support the rights of individuals to live and work in their communities.
Olmstead v. L.C. - extensive information from the Bazelon Center
April 2004: DD Waitlist Case NH Supreme Court decision: Nonsuit without Prejudice
Resources:
- from the Kaiser Family Foundation - The Olmstead Decision: five years later
- "Community for All" Toolkit: Resources for Supported Community Living
- The States' Response to the Olmstead Decision: How Are States Complying?, a report from the National Conference of State Legislatures
- Real Choice Systems Change project
- Home and Community-Based Services Clearinghouse for the Community Living Exchange Collaborative
- Inclusion Research Institute
- Institute for Community Inclusion has many publications on transition from school to work, and on employment
- Institute on Community Integration
- Independent Living Research Utilization at The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research has information about independent living and the Olmstead decision, among other things.
- New Hampshire's Care Gap: The Healthcare Workforce Shortage, 2001, Paraprofessional Healthcare Initiative, New Hampshire Community Loan Fund (PDF File)
- The Policy Resource Center Institute for Health, Law, and Ethics has policy briefs on health care financing, including Home and Community-Based Medicaid funding
- Consumer Directed Care: How Well Does it Work? , a report from the National Council on Disability
