Olmstead and Community Integration
ANCOR members may submit policy questions or recommendations
to the HHS/HCFA workgroup on Olmstead by email at: ADA/Olmstead@HCFA.Gov.
Please keep ANCOR informed of your questions/recommendations and the workgroup's
response by emailing ANCOR Director of Public Policy Suellen Galbraith at sgalbraith@ancor.org.
Olmstead and Community Integration
- HHS on Olmstead Anniversary and President's Proclamation of "Year of Community Living" (June 22, 2009)
- HHS: Georgia to Offer More Community Living Alternatives for Individuals with Disabilities (September 16, 2008)
- President’s New Freedom Initiative 2007 Progress Report (July 26, 2007)
- White House Proclamation on Anniversary of the ADA (July 25, 2007)
- Visions Alert: state announces
settlement in Martin class action lawsuit (July 13, 2004)
- Litigation
Concerning Medicaid Services for People with Developmental Disabilities by
Gary Smith (February 2003)
- Three-Year
Olmstead V. L.C. Progress Report (National Association of Protection and
Advocacy Systems, Inc., October, 2002)
- New Freedom Initiative: A Progress Report [PDF]
[HTML] (May 10,
2002)
- The National Conference on State Legislatures
has issued The
States' Response to the Olmstead Decisiion: A Work in Progress--an
update of its first report released on March 2001. The new report includes
an appendix of each states activities and an appendix of state contacts. (April
22, 2002)
- Delivering on the Promise,
400 page compilation
of the nine independent Federal Agency reports of actions to eliminate barriers
and promote community integration--a follow-up, indepth report to the Preliminary
document released December 23, 2001. (March 25, 2002)
- Two-Year
Olmstead Progress Report, prepared by Elizabeth Priaulx of the
National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems, Inc. (October 2001)
- HHS
Transmits Interagency Report on Actions to Eliminate Barriers and Promote
Community Integration (December 21, 2001)
- HHS
Awards $64 Million to States to Help People with Disabilities Live in the
Comunity (September 28, 2001)
- HHS Invites Comment from Providers on
President Bush's Executive Order 13217 on Community-based Alternatives (ANCOR
July 31st Alert)
- ANCOR
provides written and oral comments to HHS and other Federal agencies on barriers
to community living. (September 28, 2001)
- President
Bush Issues Olmstead Executive Order (June 19, 2001)
- New
National Conference of State Legislature's Report on State Responses to Olmstead
Decision (March 2001)
- Information
on Olmstead/System Change Grants: Including Systems Change
grants awards, HCFA Q&A Document.
- Olmstead:
Update No. 5 New Tools for States (January 10, 2001) (.pdf
version)
- Olmstead:
Update No. 4 HCFA Update (January 10, 2001) (.pdf
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- Information
on Systems Change
Olmstead Resources