Disability Service Providers Struggle To Compete For Workers

 With pay rates that are less than fast-food wages, disability service providers can't find staff and are closing group homes and struggling to maintain services as a result. Read More >

Advocates Turn To Video Visits To Monitor Facilities, And Find There Are Some Benefits

 When the pandemic restricted visits to care facilities, a disability nonprofit faced a dilemma: How do you make sure residents are protected if you can't enter the building? Read More >

Renewed Push Underway To Extend Program That Helps People Leave Institutions

Lawmakers are pressing ahead with efforts to renew a federal program that helps people with disabilities move from institutions to community-based settings. Read More >

Parents Frustrated By Lack Of Residential Treatment Options

Struggling to cope with severe behaviors, many families say it's nearly impossible to find or pay for residential treatment for their kids even when such care is recommended by doctors. https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2016/04/01/parents-residential-treatment/22121/

Residential Facilities

Residential Facilities: State and Federal Oversight Gaps May Increase Risk to Youth Well-Being

Unfortunately, states generally do a poor job in monitoring & operating facilities. The Pacer Center sent out this information about testimony by Kay E. Brown, director, education, workforce, and income security issues, before the House Committee on Education and Labor, April 24, 2008. "Ms. Brown's testimony is based on the GAO's ongoing work, which included national surveys to state agencies of child welfare, health, and mental health, and juvenile justice for the year 2006. Nationwide, federal funding to states supported more than 200,000 youth in facilities seeking help for behavioral or emotional challenges in 2004. Recent federal reviews and investigations highlighted maltreatment in some facilities, resulting in hospitalizations and deaths; survey respondents from 49 states reported investigating physical and sexual abuse and neglect and 28 states reported deaths. The full testimony can be found at http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-696T ; highlights can be found at http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08696thigh.pdf "