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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 …

Autism Speaks urges adapted hospital policies to allow support providers for autistic and disabled people… guardians or support providers.  Autism Speaks applauds the 14 states * that have issued direct guidance to hospitals to grant exceptions to visitor restrictions for people with disabilities, allowing them a guardian or support person at their …

Statement on National Emergency Educational Waivers related to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act … Economic Security (CARES) Act, the U.S. Department of Education announced last week that it will not request that Congress grant it the authority to waive core tenets of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Autism Speaks is …

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 …