Information on Petition to End the Waiting List
Information on Petition to End the Waiting List
People with developmental disabilities are too often treated as outcasts and second class citizens in our country. For decades, they were put away in institutions where they were mistreated severely. Once those atrocities were exposed, community-based services were created, which were supposed to help to provide people with the means to gain an independent life and end institutionalization forever.That hasn't happened.
Instead, hundreds of thousands of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities are still waiting for services. Some states have an estimated 50-100,000 people who have not been able to access the needed services and there are hundreds of thousands waiting nationally.
The National Organization to End the Waitlist (NOEWAIT) has a petition directed to the President and Members of Congress:
"Health Care Reform Must Eliminate Waitlists and Allow for the Continuation/Portability of Services Across State Lines"
1. PLEASE GO TO THE WEB SITE BELOW AND SIGN THE PETITION -
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/noewait.html
2. PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS MESSAGE, INCLUDING THIS REQUEST TO CIRCULATE IT FURTHER, TO ALL LISTSERVS IN WHICH YOU ARE INVOLVED AND TO ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS.
3. PLEASE PLACE THIS NOTICE IN ALL NEWSLETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS.
Secondly,
NOEWAIT is a non-funded organization. Everything we do is by volunteers. We need funds to continue our work. If there is any person or organization interested in assisting our funding, please contact [email protected] . We are sponsored through a very respectable organization, the Family Cafe - a 501(c)(3) corporation. All funds would be donated through the Family Cafe for NOEWAIT's benefit.
And, lastly:
We need your ideas - how do we get to more groups with email lists. Particularly service and supply groups such as ANCOR, and national groups such as UCP, Autism, Down Syndrome, military families and similar?
Thank you so much for your assistance.
Also, you can follow us on Twitter. http://twitter.com/NOEWAIT
Denver Fox, Ed.D., Moderator, NOEWAIT
Please check out our website at http://www.noewait.net
People with disabilities need your support!
Dear Padco, Sign the petition to eliminate waiting lists and make services portable.
People with developmental disabilities are too often treated as outcasts and second class citizens in our country. For decades, they were put away in institutions where they were mistreated severely. Once those atrocities were exposed, community-based services were created, which were supposed to help to provide people with the means to gain an independent life and end institutionalization forever.
That hasn't happened.
Instead, hundreds of thousands of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities are still waiting for services. Some states have an estimated 50-100,000 people who have not been able to access the needed services and there are hundreds of thousands waiting nationally.
Also, those who finally do receive services are unable to move from state to state, because they start over in their new location, interrupting their needed services sometimes for many years.
Now, healthcare reform is moving forward with very little understanding of the long-term needs of people with developmental disabilities - some of whom cannot cross the street alone, get out of bed without assistance, or feed themselves.
Health Care Reform must provide community-based services when they are needed and allow for the continuation/portability of services across state lines.
Please lend your voice to let the President and Congress know that our most vulnerable citizens deserve the most basic human rights - freedom from institutionalization and life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the community like you and I enjoy. Click here to take action now >>
Thanks for your support,
Renee Beauregard
Note: Renee is the creator of the Medicaid Waivers for the Developmentally Disabled idea, part of the Ideas for Change in America initiative.