by RIDDCouncil | Oct 4, 2016 | 5 Year Plan, RIDDC
The RI Developmental Disabilities Council (RIDDC) recently received approval from the Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AIDD) to begin implementation of a new Five Year Plan beginning October 1, 2016-September 30, 2022. The Council works...
by RIDDCouncil | Sep 29, 2016 | Budget Cuts, Cross Disability Coalition, Policy, RIDDC, Supports Intensity Scale
In just the few months she has served as interim director of Rhode Island’s Division of Developmental Disabilities, Jane Gallivan has been instrumental in changing the state’s approach to providing services for individuals with intellectual challenges. On the most...
by RIDDCouncil | Jul 8, 2016 | Consent Decree, Employment, Laws & Legislation, Policy, RIDDC
By Gina Macris Jennifer Wood, Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services, the top aide and top lawyer to Secretary Elizabeth Roberts, and a former chief of staff at the state Department of Education is orchestrating an effort to usher in a new era for Rhode...
by RIDDCouncil | Jun 21, 2016 | Community Living, Cross Disability Coalition, Employment, Employment First, Family Connections, Life is Good, Money & Finances, Safety, Self Directed Supports, Speaker's Bureau
The Cross Disability Coalition has been working on the development of a Speakers Bureau to provide education/training on various topics to different audiences including people with disabilities, families, advocates, agency administrators and support staff, employers...
by RIDDCouncil | Jun 21, 2016 | Cross Disability Coalition, Employment First, Policy
By Gina Macris When she became director of Rhode Island’s developmental disability agency in February, 2015, Maria Montanaro inherited a budget with no relation to actual costs that was destined to run a deficit. She had to work with a state-run system of group homes...
by RIDDCouncil | Jun 21, 2016 | Budget Cuts, Consent Decree, Cross Disability Coalition, Employment First, Laws & Legislation, Policy
By Gina Macris Rhode Island’s developmental disability budget for the next fiscal year includes assurances that a total of $9.1 million in Medicaid money will be spent to raise pay for direct support workers and to begin transforming the state’s system of services for...
by RIDDCouncil | May 19, 2016 | Consent Decree, Employment, Employment First, Federal Laws & Legislation, Laws & Legislation, Policy
Developmental Disability News is a RI website that covers the long-term impact of the 2014 Consent Decree between the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the State of RI, as well as a related Interim Settlement Agreement between the DOJ and the City of Providence...
by RIDDCouncil | Feb 19, 2016 | Community Living, Policy
The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law in Washington, D.C., along with other disability and aging advocacy groups, has issued a Toolkit to help advocates push for strong implementation of the new Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Settings Rules in their...
by RIDDCouncil | Jan 22, 2016 | 5 Year Plan
The RI Developmental Disabilities Council is in the process of writing our new 5 Year State Plan (2016-2021). We want to know what YOU think is important in the lives of people with developmental disabilities and their families in RI. The Council is federally funded...
by RIDDCouncil | Jan 15, 2016 | Community Living, Family Connections
“The Community of Practice for Supporting Families of Individuals with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities” is a national project from the National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services (NASDDDS), Human Services Research...
