Kansas ADAPT Celebrates
Freedom Day 2003
On February 17, 2003;
Kansas ADAPT celebrated Freedom Day 2003 with a rally
at the Kansas Statehouse.
A large crowd filled the first floor of the
Statehouse rotunda
to listen to remarks by leadership from the state
legislature, Social
and Rehabilitation Services (SRS) Secretary Schalansky
and disability rights
advocates.
Following the rally
members of the crowd dispersed to visit with their
various legislative
repersentatives. They asked them to support the
Governor's FY 04 budget
and to restore sufficient funds to the FY 03 budget
to reduce the waiting
lists for Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) so
that people are not
forced out of their own homes into a nursing home. They
also asked legislators
to support the policy of letting long-term care
dollars "follow the
person", which means that when a person in a nursing
home or other institution
chooses to leave that facility, the funds
necessary to support
them in the community are transferred from the
institutional care
budget to the HCBS budget.
Read more at: http://www.ljworld.com/section/archive/story/122301
See photos of Freedom
Day 2003 at:
http://www.tilrc.org/docs/0203freedaypics.htm
Kansas ADAPT Celebrates
Freedom Day 2003
On February 17, 2003;
Kansas ADAPT celebrated Freedom Day 2003 with a rally
at the Kansas Statehouse.
A large crowd filled the first floor of the
Statehouse rotunda
to listen to remarks by leadership from the state
legislature, Social
and Rehabilitation Services (SRS) Secretary Schalansky
and disability rights
advocates.
Following the rally
members of the crowd dispersed to visit with their
various legislative
repersentatives. They asked them to support the
Governor's FY 04 budget
and to restore sufficient funds to the FY 03 budget
to reduce the waiting
lists for Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) so
that people are not
forced out of their own homes into a nursing home. They
also asked legislators
to support the policy of letting long-term care
dollars "follow the
person", which means that when a person in a nursing
home or other institution
chooses to leave that facility, the funds
necessary to support
them in the community are transferred from the
institutional care
budget to the HCBS budget.
Read more at Advocates
for disabled stage rally at Capitol by Scott
Rothschild for the
Lawrence Journal-World.
http://www.ljworld.com/section/archive/storypr/120793
See photos of Freedom
Day 2003.
http://www.ljworld.com/section/archive/storypr/120793
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