Provide a Basic Level of Supports for People with Developmental Disabilities (North Carolina residents only please)

    (From the Disability Rights NC website) - "The case, Samantha R., et al. v. North Carolina, et. al, was filed in Wake County in May 2017. The suit claimed that North Carolina does not offer enough community-based supports for people with I/DD. Many people with I/DD would prefer to live in their home communities but have been placed into institutions in order to receive services......... The judicial order declares that the State and DHHS have violated a legal mandate – passed nearly 30 years ago – that people with disabilities may not be forced to live in institutional settings in order to get the services they need."

    North Carolina has not served our loved ones with an Intellectual/Developmental Disability (IDD) who are on the Innovations Wait List formally called The Registry of Unmet Needs. This list is for people with disabilities who do not have the Medicaid Program called Innovations Waiver. This program waives some of the Medicaid rules so people with IDD can receive Home and Community Based Services they need to live outside an institution. Currently, about 12,500 people have the Innovations Waiver and 14,000 are on the Registry of Unmet Needs in NC.

    We are asking the State of NC to fund a Family Support Waiver (FSW) that would meet the basic needs of people on The Registry of Unmet Needs.
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