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Programs:
Waiting List Campaign
The number of people on the Waiting List for Community Services grew by close to 1,000 individuals between July 1, 2005 and May 2006 (a 6% increase)! Today, more than 16,000 individuals are awaiting services from the Developmental Disabilities Administration ? 39% are for services in crisis categories.
In 1999, The Arc of Maryland led the successful "Key of Our Own: Waiting List Campaign" that resulted in the Governor's $116 million Five-Year Waiting List Initiative benefiting over 8,000 children and adults and their families.
Now the Waiting List families have joined together, through The Arc of Maryland, to re-activate the Waiting List Campaign. It begins with a call to the new administration to provide a multi-year Community Services Waiting List Initiative.
What can you do?
For more information and to join, contact Anita Disbrow at adisbrow@etwn.us.
Another reason this is important ? The Rosewood Center Story!
Maryland Disability Law Center is building a head of steam around Rosewood closure! It began last February 2007 when MDLC released a report of Rosewood Center at a press conference to coincide with the DDA Budget hearing. Click here for more details and links to key articles and coverage from this press conference. Then in August 2007, for the third time in 12 months, the Office of Health Care Quality notified Rosewood of conditions of immediate jeopardy and banned any new admissions to the facility
The controversy surrounding state run facilities in which Rosewood Center in Owings Mills, MD has been the center began in September 2006 when state inspectors documented so many incidents of physical abuse and violence at Rosewood that they threatened to cut the center's Medicaid support. Here's the story and relevant documents.
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