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Money Follows the Person Program is extended!… cost-effective care. The MFP project was authorized through 2016 although some states will be able to continue to use their grant funds through 2020. However,  without Congressional reauthorization, states will lose access to the enhanced funding …

EMPOWER Care Act introduced to reauthorize Money Follows the Person… cost-effective care. The MFP project was authorized through 2016 although some states will be able to continue to use their grant funds through 2020. However, without Congressional reauthorization, states will lose access to the enhanced funding …

Small study finds B12 injections ease autism symptoms in some children… Some earlier research has suggested that the process is impaired in some people with autism . The new study, supported by a grant from Autism Speaks , appears online in the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology . It is the first …

Research to Practice: Expanding Opportunities for Employment… Assessments from the Alpine Learning Group The Alpine Learning Group of Paramus, N.J., with the support through a grant from NEXT for AUTISM from the proceeds of Comedy Central’s  Night of Too Many Stars , developed two assessments to be …

Autism and mental health in young people… as well as isolation, exhaustion and financial strain on parents and other caregivers. An Autism Speaks treatment research grant enabled researchers at Baltimore’s Kennedy Krieger Institute to address the urgent need to:   Better identify mental …

Advocating for those with severe, intense and challenging behaviors… teens who wandered away from safe places and drowned. Since its inception in 2018, $10.3 million has been awarded to 77 grant recipients working to reduce deaths and injuries among individuals with dementia and developmental disabilities who wander from safe environments. More specifically, it provides grants to local programs helping to 1) locate and recover individuals who have wandered and 2) proactively focus on …