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		<title>Op-ed: Biased actions by group home opponents are illegal</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/10/13/op-ed-group-home-opposition-23949/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foes of a planned group home for people with developmental disabilities in Virginia are acting out of ignorance, prejudice and fear, Colleen Miller writes in the [Harrisonburg, VA], News-Record , adding that their actions are illegal under the federal Fair Housing Act. She says people with developmental disabilities deserve to be treated with dignity and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia group home plan withdrawn amid neighborhood hostility</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/09/21/group-home-22706/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Fredericksburg [VA] Freelance Star and the Culpeper [VA] Star Exponent: A  community service board in Northern Virginia dropped plans to set up a group home for adults with intellectual disabilities after neighbors complained vehemently to the local board of supervisors. The Rappahannock-Rapidan Community Services Board (RRCSB) had proposed converting a foreclosed home in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parents seek to create lifelong home for adult children with autism</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/09/18/adult-program-22521/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Cincinnati Enquirer: A group of Ohio parents have banded together to create a rural residential and employment program for their adult children with autism. It&#8217;s estimated that the non-profit Safe Haven Farms will cost $3.2 million, and will house up to 24 adults. Sometimes lost amid questions about what causes autism and why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial: People with disabilities lack clout, hope</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/09/10/clout-in-kansas-22157/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kansas City Star Editorial Board writes that people with developmental disabilities plead for help in the state Capitol annually, but keep getting pushed aside. More than 4,100 Kansans are on waiting lists for residential and home-based services &#8212; waiting lists that didn&#8217;t exist as recently as the 1990s. Waiting means delayed therapy for children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advocates sue to delay Washington program cuts</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/07/08/advocates-sue-washington-19837/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: A disability watchdog organization has filed suit against Washington state, arguing that hasty budget cuts threaten to push some 900 adults with disabilities into nursing homes. The suit seeks to delay funding cuts to a nursing care program that allows adults with disabilities to live in a state-run group home and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women charged with abuse of group home resident</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/05/12/women-charged-with-abuse-of-group-home-resident-16190/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 10:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AP/Philadelphia Inquirer, WNEP-TV, [Scranton, PA] Times-Tribune: Two women who were employed by the ARC to care for a woman with intellectual disabilities stand accused of abusing her by tricking her into drinking urine and eating feces in a residential group home in Pennsylvania&#8217;s Wyoming County. Kimberly A. Holzlein, 26, and Jill L. Hillard, 36, were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parents fear scandal will be used to close institutions</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/03/18/parents-fear-scandal-12191/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of allegations about staff-organized fights in Texas institutions, a handful of families interviewed by the Corpus Christi Caller-Times say the state schools are &#8220;the best in an imperfect world&#8221; for their children with intellectual disabilities. They say they fear the allegations will be used to shut down the state&#8217;s institutions, and say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mom wants Texas institution kept open</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/02/11/jacque-beavers-9268/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Waco [Texas] Tribune-Herald: Jacque Beavers, the mother of a woman who lives at the Mexia State School, opposes the closing of the state&#8217;s institutions and says her daughter would have no place to go if the facility were closed. An excerpt: Julie has lived at Mexia State School since 1976. Someone must diaper, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial: Eliminate institutions for people with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/01/24/editorial-nj-institutions-8312/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Philadelphia Inquirer: New Jersey lawmakers should move ahead with a proposal to eliminate warehouse-style institutional care for the developmentally disabled and move them to community settings. New Jersey Assemblyman Louis Greenwald (D-Camden) has drafted a proposal to close five of the state&#8217;s seven developmental centers within five years. About 80 percent of that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial: Move slowly on closing Virginia institution</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/01/24/editorial-institution-8311/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the [Norfolk] Virginian-Pilot: Gov. Tim Kaine is heading in the right direction this year with a plan to close the Southeastern Virginia Training Center in Chesapeake, but he must be careful to avoid excessive speed. &#8230;  Kaine&#8217;s plan to close the center by the end of June appears to be impractical, and he must [...]]]></description>
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