Meet Our New AAPD Intern: Cheri Montgomery!
I am deeply passionate about advocating with the disability community, and I cannot wait to spend the next few months serving and learning alongside this incredible community.
Letter From the Disability Community to CDC Director Rochelle Walensky
Together we represent millions of people with disabilities, patients, and people with chronic illnesses across the United States, and we are extremely concerned by your comments.
Disabled Lives Are Worth Saving
We demand that the CDC firmly commit to meaningful COVID-19 policies that value the lives of people with complex medical needs and disabilities.
Dear Josephine
Even in serious situations, she brought joy with her — dressing you up in the most adorable tiny pink Doc Martens, trick-or-treating in the Senate, celebrating victories small and large. She kept in touch. She always showed up.
Our Daughter Becca Is an HCBS Success Story: Let’s End Waiting Lists Now!
Thanks to the support of Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS), Becca is able to direct her own care and decide where she wants to live.
Why We Must Eradicate HCBS Waiting Lists
Why do people with disabilities and their parents have to jump through so many hoops to access the funds that keep them at home and in the community where they thrive?
Home and Community-Based Services Are a Human Right (by Jeneva Stone)
President Reagan knew this was wrong, so he created the Medicaid waiver program, allowing states to "waive" Medicaid's institutional bias for people with disabilities, like Katie, who wanted to get the care they needed in their own homes and communities.
My Son’s Nurse Can’t Survive on What She’s Paid
She cried as she told me that the health insurance she is offered doesn’t cover her or her daughter’s monthly medications, and she just can’t go on without making ends meet.
Coping During Difficult Times: Safety, Control, Connection
Most of what’s going on in the world right now appears beyond our control; thus, we freeze. Recovering from a single incidence of trauma is difficult; recovering from a series of traumatic events is even harder, especially when the trauma is ongoing.
Wear a Mask at School! Protect Our Children!
Now imagine having a child with this condition during this global pandemic and you can maybe emphasize with a fraction of the terror we feel daily in making basic decisions like, should my son go play outside with friends?
Why My Family Says “Disabled” Instead of “Special Needs”
When we say people have “special needs” instead of disabilities, we’re emphasizing “needs” instead of “rights.” In fact, disabled people have rights granted to them by law, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Broad Sign on for Medicaid Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Investment
A large investment is essential for building a sustainable HCBS infrastructure that can begin to address the magnitude of need in our communities, both increasing access to Medicaid HCBS and addressing the direct care workforce crisis.
What the ACA Means To Me
Getting my social work degree is the long-delayed answer to a professional calling to a helping profession. A calling I ignored for over a decade because good health benefits, so critical for my family, kept me tied to my old job.