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		<title>Deep state budget cuts put people with disabilities at risk</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/07/20/states-cut-home-care-29817/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the nation prepares to mark the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act next week, the New York Times presents disturbing evidence that cash-strapped states are dismantling home-care services that have been helping elderly people and those with disabilities to live in their communities. Since the start of the recession, at least 25 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>States lag in moving people out of nursing homes</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/04/27/states-lag-nursing-homes-29337/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From National Public Radio/Kaiser Health News: In 2005, when Congress funded a $1.3 billion initiative to move people out of nursing homes and long-term-care facilities, it was anticipated that more than 37,000 moves would be completed by the year 2013. But state data collected by Kaiser Health News shows that only 5,774 people have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California plans to close institution for people with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/02/lanterman-closure-plan-27515/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lanterman Developmental Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pomona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rosewood Center]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Families are fearful. Unions promise to fight. From the Los Angeles Times, San Gabriel Valley Tribune: California officials this week announced plans to close one of the state&#8217;s largest institutions for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The Lanterman Developmental Center in Pomona houses 400 people on 302 acres, and employs more than 1,300 people. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agencies struggle to find jobs for clients with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/11/05/employment-2-25035/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Ditto]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Philadelphia Inquirer: While finding employment opportunities for people with disabilities is a nationwide problem, New Jersey and Pennsylvania social support programs are trying to create jobs by competing for piecework contracts. That&#8217;s getting more difficult as the recession goes on, and waiting lists for jobs continue to grow. It&#8217;s estimated that more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mental health advocates push for nursing home reform</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/10/31/advocates-push-illinois-24885/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Chicago Tribune: Mental health advocates in Illinois are seeking a major overhaul in the way the state manages patients with mental illness, arguing that the state should not be placing people in nursing homes when they could be treated more cheaply and effectively in community settings. The volatile mix of felons, mentally ill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Op-ed: &#8216;Georgia stalls while disabled endure&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/10/10/op-ed-georgia-stalls-23711/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ADA]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Olstead]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A decade ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Olmstead that unjustified segregation of individuals with disabilities in institutions is a form of discrimination prohibited by the Americans with Disabilities Act. The case was interpreted as directing states to provide community-based supports rather than continue unwarranted segregation in institutions. Sue Jamieson and Talley Wells of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illinois program aims to protect disabled people in emergencies</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/09/23/emergency-response-22776/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[autism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[criminal justice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[premise alert program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rochelle Feller-Schmakel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the AP/Chicago Tribune: A new &#8220;premise alert program&#8221; allows families in some areas of Illinois to share information about medical problems and disabilities with local police and fire departments. Advocates say the information will allow emergency responders to act with greater speed and sensitivity. The point of the program is to prepare officers approaching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge blocks CA service cuts to disabled, elderly people</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/09/19/adult-care-injunction-22632/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adult Day Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disability news and commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Zirker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rachel Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saundra Brown Armstrong]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Francisco Chronicle,  Oakland Tribune, Ventura County Star: A federal judge in Oakland has ordered California to halt cuts to the state&#8217;s Adult Day Health Care program, which serves about 37,000 poor, disabled and elderly people. U.S. District Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong found that cutting services could force thousands of Californians to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ed Roberts campus to offer one-stop disability services</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/08/05/ed-roberts-campus-21338/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/08/05/ed-roberts-campus-21338/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[accessibility]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Berkley]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Oakland Tribune: An 86,000-square-foot disability center is scheduled to open next spring in Berkeley, California, with universal access via mass transit. The idea behind the campus &#8211; a first of its kind in the world &#8211; is to allow disabled people to get off a BART train and get as many services as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Settlement mandates release of 300 from NJ institutions</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/07/30/new-jersey-20972/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[community services]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mental health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[disability news and commentary]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[psychiatric hospitals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the [Newark, NJ] Star-Ledger and Asbury Park Press: Nearly 300 patients stranded inside New Jersey&#8217;s psychiatric hospitals for more than a year because of a lack of housing and outpatient treatment services will be discharged over the next five years, under a lawsuit settlement announced by a disability advocacy group and the state Department [...]]]></description>
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