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Developmental Disability System Reform
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Information and rumination about changes to California's system of support for people with developmental disabilities.
Recent Posts
A fair hearing for fair hearings
So, there seem to be vendors in LA County who know that I recently made the executive director of a local regional center angry with a needlessly hostile description of regional center habits vis-a-vis the termination or reduction of services without...
Praise Where It's Due
I have been critical on this site (and most places I've bothered to write or speak) of our legislators' lack of curiosity regarding the outcomes of the program they fund with taxpayer money. So I have to give credit to Assemblymember Hector Delatorr...
Mr. Manners and five budget cutting taboos
The following is my first ever attempt to opine on good manners but, clearly, we need a new post up and this is what I got. Brother Doug's Behavioral Tip for DDS: When Regional Centers are wrong, be strong. In the past, Regional Centers have acted ...
Baron-centered services
When we talk about person-centered services, and most of us speak about such services reverently, we assume that the most efficient and most morally appropriate support for people with disabilities would form from the will of the end user, be shaped ...
Serving Stanley for Free
In the comments for the previous post, Stanley asked: "Thanks for providing specific provider details...hate to push one so willing to provide such information...butbut wondering how do rates compare with actual cost of providing quality programs...d...
Dreaming with the Governor
While we're waiting for work to be done by the legislature, and since I haven't posted here in a month, I have some thoughts about one plank in the Governor's proposed cuts to DDS. One of the elements of the cost-cutting plan calls for Regional Cent...
