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Fiscal Year 2001 Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Expenditures Exceed Those of ICFs/MR.
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Lakin, K. Charlie; Prouty, Robert; Smith, Jerra; Polister, Barb; Smith, Gary – Mental Retardation, 2002
This article reports that in 2001, for the first time since its creation 20 years earlier, Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Waiver programs for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities had Federal and state expenditures that exceeded those for Medicaid Intermediate Care Facilities for Persons with Mental…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Community-Based Services for Juvenile Delinquents: Concept and Implications for Practice.
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Coates, Robert B. – Journal of Social Issues, 1981
The development of community-based alternatives to institutional care for juvenile offenders should be based on (1) a clear conceptualization of what "community-based" means, (2) intervention efforts that consider the context of the clients' social relationship networks; and (3) resolution of professional and territorial conflicts.…
Descriptors: Boarding Schools, Community Involvement, Community Programs, Delinquency
Community Living and People with Intellectual Disability: Introduction to Part II.
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Stancliffe, Roger J.; Emerson, Eric; Lakin, K. Charlie – Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 2001
This introductory article discusses major Australian deinstitutionalization initiatives and presents data on trends in institutional living in Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. All three countries continue to witness a fall in the institutional population of people with intellectual disability and an increase in community…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitude Change, Change Strategies, Children