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New Project Showcases ‘Disability-Forward’ Housing
by J.K. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle/TNS | January 7, 2025
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HIGHLIGHTS A PROMISING NEW MODEL CALLED THE KELSEY, AN INCLUSION COMMUNITY IN SAN FRANCISCO
PBS NEWSHOUR
An excerpt from a recent Most Integrated Setting Coordinating Council (MISCC) meeting where CHInyc's Co-Director Carrie Peterson proposes a new residential model for people with I/DD and more significant support needs. Called an Inclusion Micro Community or IMC, this model will combine residents who have no supportive care needs with people who have disabilities, supporting both autonomy and community and will rely on the use of Self Direction funding.
CHINYC ADVOCATES IN ALBANY
The news above and articles below represent only a small sampling of research that has uncovered the prolific horrors that people with disabilities have long suffered and outrageously, still endure today.
This is unacceptable in modern civilization and there is an urgent moral obligation to speak for those whose voices go unheard.
Beatings, Burns and Betrayal: The Willowbrook Scandal’s Legacy - New York Times
Group Home Beneficiaries Are at Risk of Serious Harm - Office of Inspector General US Department of Health and Human Services
The outcomes of individualized housing for people with disability and complex needs: a scoping review Disability and Rehabilitation Volume 44, 2022 - Issue 7 Stacey Oliver, Emily Z. Gosden-Kaye, Dianne Winkler & Jacinta M. Douglas
COVID-19 outcomes among people with intellectual and developmental disability living in residential group homes in New York State
Disability and Health Journal Volume 13, Issue 4, October 2020, 100969 - Scott D. Landes PhD, Margaret A. Turk MD, Margaret K. Formica MSPH, PhD, Katherine E. McDonald PhD,, J. Dalton Stevens MA
In State Care, 1200 deaths and Few Answers NY Times
At State Run Homes, Abuse and Impunity NY Times
How Troubled State Group Homes for Disabled New Yorkers Operate for Years After Early Alerts NYC News Service
What We Know About Homelessness and Intellectual Disability Psychology Today - People with intellectual disabilities are more likely to become homeless at an older age due to the breakdown of a relationship or the death of a primary caregiver.
Report by Autism Housing Network - In a time of great need, intentional communities are a sustainable housing option that foster interdependent, integrated relationships.
The Importance of Community Integration for People with Disabilities - United Disabilities Services
Psychology Today - studies from the Bronfenbrenner Center at Cornell Universty
“People with intellectual disabilities are more likely to become homeless at an older age due to the breakdown of a relationship or the death of a primary caregiver.”
- Psychology Today
CHINYC IN ALBANY
During a period for public comments at a recent MISCC meeting in Albany, Carrie Peterson, Director of CHInyc.org, speaks about an innovative but simple approach to addressing the housing crisis faced by people with disabilities.
ABUSE IS PERVASIVE
WARNING: This video contains graphic content of abuse against a person with autism.
The rot is at the top. A whistleblower who captured the incident at a well respected facility in Upstate New York was subsequently fired by the facility. The whistleblower, who is in the US on a work visa, risked their livelihood to expose this abuse.
