A Transitional House For The Disabled

The treatment of individuals with disabilities has changed dramatically since the 1800’s. Reynolds 1988, describes, Progressive inclusion, the evolution of services provided to those with various disabilities. In the early 1800’s residential institutions, or asylums were seem as common place accommodations for individuals with hearing, visual, mental or emotional impairments. Institutions remained the primary educational support until a century later in the early 1900’s. The parents of students with disabilities brought upon a legislation change. During the 1950’s and 1960’s, these parents pressured courts and legislatures to introduce a change in educational services. Reynolds

During the 1950s, people who had a disability had two options of housing which included living with their families or living in an institution. However, families did not receive much support since most public welfare services were used towards institutional care, such as mental hospitals and orphanages. Throughout the 1960s there were movements to deinstitutionalize, which at that time basically led to smaller institutions. The 1970s allowed for even smaller community-based residential services that were typically designed for not more than 12 people that were similar in terms of age, independence, or ability. Even though different funding was available, many standards were violated in most of the institutions. Throughout the 70s there were movements to close state institutions and provide more community residential services as well as family support. During the 1980s groundwork for families was laid to expand their control of the nature of the support they received and more options were available to help out with living outside an institution. People with developmental disabilities began to gain increased support to having homes of their own during the 1990s and funded had dramatically increased to over $735 for family support programs in 1998. In 2001 the federal government began a new freedom initiative to “remove barriers to community living for people of all ages with disabilities and long-term illness.” In 2011 the decision that the isolation of people with

In the United States today, there are over fifty-one million disabled adults and children. Throughout our nation’s history, we have not allowed the best treatment and care for these numerous citizens. But, in the recent past, the government has passed laws, made exceptions, and thoroughly tried to provide accommodations to these people with special needs. While this is true, America, as a whole, still views this group as strange or different. Even though this is exceptionally normal, it is not correct. The United States needs to be opened up to the truth about their fellow American citizens. The people of America ought to understand that these disabilities affect not only those who are disabled, but that it affects the family and friends

The lack of accessibility is crippling for physically disabled people. This often leads to isolation and depression. Many disabled people have to move to big city to have the accommodations they need (special doctors, accommodating transportation, disabled friendly activities, etc.). The cost of living in these cities is so high that on top of therapy

People with disabilities are the nation’s largest minority and one of the few minority groups that any person can join at any time.

Many of them could get discouraged with having to find the willpower to travel every day, coming up with enough travel money, and still trying to not relapse back into using their former abused drug.

The exact impact of a disability on the life of an individual varies according to a number

(Geewax, M. 2012). The fact that many people are living longer today than they ever have in history is increasing the overall cost of caring for family members in this traditional environment, and making it nearly impossible for the United States and American families to keep up with rising cost. According to the current statistics provided by AARP, the average person will spend about 2.44 years in a skilled nursing facility. With these estimates, the cost of providing skilled nursing care for just one parent is at about $190,588.00 dollars. Medicare covers about three percent of this cost in total or approximately $5700.00 dollars split over just first one hundred days. Medicare pays at one hundred percent the first 20 days. Then with Medicaid, the general rule of thumb is all personal holdings such as savings, properties and retirement funds must be expended prior to applying for the program. The one exception to this rule is owning a property the parent can apply for Medicaid with the understanding that their home will be sold and the proceeds of the sale going to the state. Additional cost are offset with social security, most facilities will allot forty dollars a month out a residents social security benefits then apply the remainder to the amount to the monthly bill. The remaining balance would then be the responsibility of the resident, resident’s family or Medicaid

“It's an important thing in our community. We support it and I'm glad the community supports it,” said Commissioner Rob Ault of the Training Center and services provided by the DD Board. “It's very important to the community. It affects a lot of families. We appreciate everything you do. There's not one of us who doesn't have some sort of disability in our family.”

The challenges we face with access of care can extremely discriminate and damaging to individuals, families, and communities. Barriers of accommodation, availability, accessibility and acceptability are obstructions that need to be demolished. 28% of insured people with disabilities reported needing particular therapies, equipment or medications that were not covered by their health plans, compared to 7 percent of those without disabilities (N.O.D, 2000). Enforcement efforts recently have failed to bring a need change to the healthcare access for disable people. Regardless of their disability, they should have access to affordable, comprehensive, and adaptive

I was previously employed at a homeless shelter, where client and staff consisted of various cultural background. At my previous employment, I assisted my supervisor with the transitional housing program. The process for the transitional housing was clients that resided at the homeless shelter that followed the shelter’s policies, guidelines, obtained employment, and saved money were referred to our transitional housing program. The transitional housing program consisted of units in the community the agency rented. The agency paid the rent on the units and clients resided up to two years and/or clients were prepared to relocate to permanent housing. Due to the limited units the agencies rented, only a few clients were placed in transitional

The history of Ability Beyond started in the year 1953 when a group of concerned parents wanted to give their children a better life. Because a life with a disability doesn’t define who they were or what they did and where they could go. When the parents started the initial services, the services were for children which included, school, daycare, recreation support with parents as volunteers for the children. In the 1960’s a corporation was officially established and opened up our main headquarters. Which is now called the Lier Building. Then a year later the parents opened up our first group home, also launched employment for individuals in the age range 16 and up. In the late 1970’s Ability Beyond was the first organization in Connecticut

Placing abused developmentally delayed adults in facilities that are catered to their disabilities would be viewed as turning their backs on their loved ones.

All they want is to take part of society as a normal individual. The disability-movement has fought for the disabilities rights throughout the years and has achieved goals such as accommodation of architectural infrastructures to serve better people who are physical impairments. The public policies have been great accomplishments because it has helped people with disabilities to be part of society. The disability-movement points out the healthcare finance policies have taken freedom away from the disability community, “ Health-care financing policies force disabled people into Institutions and nursing homes rather than funding independent living. Income-maintenance and public health-insurance policies include “disincentives” that penalize disabled individuals for trying to work productively.”(p.4). The government has done a great job on protecting disabled individuals’ rights. However, the health-care system has isolated this group even more by restricting the level of productivity that they have within the system, as a result this medical model marginalizes this group of people and this program available for this community does not fully address their issues.

Under Australian disability policies, there is a significant focus on individuals with disabilities making their own decisions regarding what services they wish to use and which agencies/ organisations will provide those services for them. This is highlighted in the NDIS provision of financial funding to the individual, not a service provider in order to allow the individual to choose their path as opposed to being told what services they are being allocated to. This gives the disabled individual a great sense of autonomy and empowerment as they are provided the opportunity to self direct their service use by being given choice and control over the supports they need to meet their goals.