In The Media
Georgia Recorder
The head of a state agency said Thursday she wants to start a conversation about how Georgia can address the list of people with developmental disabilities trying to gain services through a Medicaid program. “Really, we’re in this together,” Judy Fitzgerald, who is the commissioner of the state Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, said during a virtual board meeting Thursday. “DBHDD manages a planning list, but we as Georgians are in this together to say, how can we serve more people?”
Georgia Recorder
Nick’s predicament is featured in a new film called 6,000 Waiting from the Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities and L’Arche Atlanta that premiered earlier this year. The number of people lining up for services has grown just since the short movie was filmed two years ago.
Decatur Short Docs Festival
Film Talk Back with Michael McDonald and Irene Turner
Youth Today
One Atlanta organization is taking steps to make sure disability issues are being heard and considered at Georgia’s 40-day legislative session.
Think Inclusive
For people with disabilities, being able to remain in the community after high school isn’t as easy as it should be. For many, lack of personal resources and family connections results in people being placed in nursing homes and care facilities, which the federal law requires states to fund as mandatory benefits.