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Home to the Community - Helping Disabled Adults Return to the Community in Maine

August 27, 2003 | Program Result

The Alpha One Center for Independent Living in Portland, Maine, created the Home to the Community project to help people with disabilities leave nursing homes and reestablish their lives in the community.

California Group Offers Resources for Special Needs Children in Managed Care

December 20, 2001 | Program Result

The Institute for Health Policy Studies (IHPS) of the University of California, San Francisco, disseminated a May 1997 institute report entitled Troubling Signs: Severely Ill Children in Employment-Based Managed Care Plans in California.

A National Resource Center is Not the Answer to Better Health Care for Special Needs Kids

December 1, 2002 | Program Result

The HSC Foundation conducted a study to determine the feasibility of a proposed national resource center that would assist children with disabilities and their families in overcoming obstacles to receiving health care and other needed services.

The Impact of Specialized Benefits Counseling Services on Social Security Administration Disability Beneficiaries in Vermont

April 1, 2004 | Journal Article

People who receive disability benefits from the Social Security Administration (SSA) have a high unemployment rate partly because they are afraid that, if they take a job, they will lose their benefits, especially their health insurance. One respons ...

Conference Explores What Physician-Assisted Suicide Could Mean to People with Disabilities

March 1, 2001 | Program Result

In 1997 and 1998, staff at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., organized two conferences on physician-assisted suicide and what it means to persons with disabilities, along with two training sessions that focused on developing ways of educating people with disabilities on the subject.

Peer Professional Workgroup Profile: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

May 15, 2008 | Program Result

The ALS Workgroup was one of eight peer professional workgroups formed by national program office staff to bring medical leaders together to generate new ideas for their fields.

Evaluation of Washington State Workers' Compensation Health Initiative Finds Managed Care Program Cuts Disability Costs

June 1, 2008 | Program Result

From 1996 to 2000, researchers from the University of Washington evaluated a Washington state program that provided medical care for injured workers through managed care systems.

More Than a Place to Live

March 1, 2006 | Program Result

By building in services that address the root causes of chronic homelessness, the Corporation for Supportive Housing is building a solution that is working across America.

Building Health Systems for People with Chronic Illnesses

June 1, 2006 | Program Result

From 1992 through 2002, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) funded Building Health Systems for People With Chronic Illnesses.

Network Coordinates Housing and Medical Services for Disabled and Chronically Ill Adults

June 30, 2006 | Program Result

The Corporation for Supportive Housing in Oakland, Calif., developed the Health, Housing and Integrated Services Network, which brought together more than 30 public and private nonprofit agencies.

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