Living in the Community

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More information on Living in Community using Medicaid Waivers

  The Children’s Freedom Initiative – a collaboration to ensure that children live in permanent, family homes and not in institutions and nursing...

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Crisis in Georgia’s State Institutions

Many people have read the  series of articles in the  Atlanta Journal Constitutions titled “A Hidden Shame: Death in Georgia’s  Mental Hospitals.”...

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Yvette’s Story

While visiting a nursing facility, our TBI advocate met Yvette, a woman in her late thirties who was on her bed in the middle of the day, facing the wall. Nursing...

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Children’s Freedom Initiative: Youth in Nursing Homes Seek Alternative Care

  by Joseph Shapiro December 9, 2010   In a hotel ballroom outside Atlanta, a young man glides his wheelchair to the front of the meeting room. With his...