INARF members have the opportunity to provide critical feedback to the Division of Disability and Rehabilitative Services (DDRS) as the draft the re-write of the Community Integration and Habilitation (CIH) Waiver.
Archie D. Sanders, 78, of Versailles died Friday, April 25, 2014, at the Waters of Clifty Falls in Madison. He was born on July 27, 1935, and raised by Oscar and Lydia White. Mr. Sanders served as the CEO of the Opportunity Center, and later of Sandstone Industries. He also worked in Vocational Rehabilitation and was a consultant in the area of Social Security and disability.
INARF recently welcomed Harley Ehrman as its new Communications and Marketing Coordinator.
What started in 1974 as a pipe dream among leaders of community agencies committed to improving services for people with disabilities became a reality when the Indiana Association of Rehabilitation Facilities was formally funded by Lilly Endowment in that same year.
Rhode Island has entered into a consent decree with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) to remedy its findings that the state over-utilized facility-based employment programs and placed transition age students with disabilities at risk for segregation. This state-wide agreement, the first of its kind, is likely to become the format for other DOJ settlements, according to an analysis by the American Congress of Community Support and Employment Services (ACCSES).
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