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Developmental Disabilities Advocates' Notebook

2010 Legislative Session

(Note: Most files on this page are in pdf format.  Click here to download Adobe Reader for free if you don't already have it.)

The files on this page are also available for download to a Kindle Wireless Reading Device (Amazon).  E-mail Diana Stadden, Policy and Advocacy Coordinator at diana@arcwa.org for the files in .azw format.

2010 Issue Papers (pdf file)
Included are issue papers on the following:

Policy Issues

• Respectful Language Code Revisions

• Parent Access to Classrooms

• Neurodevelopmental Therapy Bill

• Autism Insurance Parity

• Developmental Disabilities Community Trust

Budget Issues

• Restore Public Guardianship

• Restore DD Children's Intensive In-home Behavioral Supports

• Restore Parent to Parent Programs

• Restore Self Advocacy Funding

• Maintain Supported Employment Services

• Maintain Community Residential Programs

• Maintain Senior Family Caregivers

• Maintain Medicaid Services

• Fund Community Out-of-Home Respite

• Fund Transition Services for High School Grads

• Maximize Individual and Family Services

• Maximize Provider Services

• Invest in Community Services

2010 Data & Charts (pdf file)

Included are data and charts on the following:

• Efficiencies

• DDD Biennial Base Funding

• Where do People Live

• DD Unmet Need by County

• Waiver Capacity

• Cost to Serve Individuals with DD

• Closure of Institutions Around the Country

• Roads to Community Living

• RHC Admissions by RHC

• Licensed Staffed Residential Program for Children

• Voluntary Placement Program History

• RHC Staffing/Operating Costs

• Washington State Budget and Policy Center

• National Core Indicators (NCI) Survey

• DHS Oregon

Additional Charts:

      Budget and Policy Center - How to talk about budget and taxes

      QA Indicators Moving from RHC

2010 Reports (pdf file)

Feasibility Study on Residential Habilitation Centers  http://www.ofm.wa.gov/facilities/report/part3_rh.pdf

HB 2078 Report  http://www.ddc.wa.gov/Publications/091208_2078_Final_Report.pdf

Washington State Institute for Public Policy (WSIPP) Report  http://www.wsipp.wa.gov/pub.asp?docid=09-10-3901

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