The State of the States in Developmental Disabilities

2007

The project, authorized by the Federal Government's Developmental Disabilities Act as amended, is funded as a Project of National Significance by the Administration on Developmental Disabilities in the United States Department of Health and Human Services. It is housed out of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and The Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities. Established in 1982 to investigate the determinants of public spending for mental retardation/developmental disabilities (MR/DD) services in the United States, the project maintains a 26-year longitudinal record of revenue, spending, and programmatic trends in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the United States as a whole. Analysis of the rich detail of the data base reveals the impact over time of federal and state fiscal policy, and illustrates important service delivery trends in the states in community living, public and private residential institutions, family support, supported employment, supported living, Medicaid Waivers, demographics, and related areas. For more information, visit http://www.cu.edu/ColemanInstitute/stateofthestates/index.html or contact Principal Investigator David Braddock,PhD, at [email protected]

programmatic trends, DD Services, financial trends, HCBS Waiver, Medicaid

Performing Technical Assistance and/or Training, Performing Research or Evaluation, Developing & Disseminating Information

Other

Professionals and Para-Professionals, Family Members/Caregivers, General Public

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State, Regional, National

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