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- ADAPT (1025)
Photo only Newt Gingrich standing at a table in meeting with ADAPT members. Two people in wheelchairs are to his right. - ADAPT (1026)
Photo: A large group of ADAPT people in a very sunny plaza. Some are in wheelchairs, others standing. They wear many different colored ADAPT Free Our People t-shirts. Behind the group is a large grey cement and glass office building. - ADAPT (1027)
A graphic of several sets of handcuffs piled on top of each other. - ADAPT (1028)
Photo of sign on the wall of the hotel we stayed in. HOLIDAY INN: HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER Daily Function Wednesday - May 22, 1996 NATIONAL DISABILITY RIGHTS CENTER Ballroom 7 am - 10 pm 1996 OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY San Marcos until - 9 am 1996 OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY Austin 4:30 am - 6 am 9 am - 10 am 1996 OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY El Paso until - 9 am 1996 OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY San Antonio until - 9 am 1996 OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY Room 920, 922 & 924 8 am - 24h [National Disability Rights Center was another name for ADAPT] - ADAPT (1029)
[This is a continuation of the article on ADAPT 1030 and the entire text is included there for easier reading.] - ADAPT (103)
RTD Executive Promises To Try Wheelchair Bus Travel Firsthand ATLANTIS From 1-B The Handi Ride, 12 buses which provide curb-to-curb service for 150 handicapped persons each day on a flexible schedule, was to have been eliminated in July. It will be retained for the rest of the year, Kimball said. Starting in July, 334 buses equipped with wheelchair lifts — plus the Handi Ride - will circulate on more than two dozen routes, the RTD official said. Specially equipped buses now operate on only 11 routes. He also promised that the Handi Ride program would continue until another program has been developed. The official also told the group that “RTD alone can’t solve all (their) transportation problems" and urged them to think in terms of a “regional consensus” of agencies dealing with the disabled. He also suggested that they seek state funding. Spokesmen for the Atlantis Community for the disabled, one of the parties to the lawsuit, on Wednesday declared the Handi Ride shouldn't be phased out, and many attending the session agreed. They included Don Burton, executive director of United Cerebral Palsy, who said he feared many disabled persons would lack access to community services; Barb Sokol, a social worker with Western Dialysis Center, who said other transit alternatives weren't “as reliable or flexible,” and a number of handicapped persons, who asked for continuation or expansion of the service. Teresa Breda, executive director of Holistic Approaches to Independent Living (HAIL), said, “In no way do I want Handi Ride to stop. “But that’s just one segment of transportation services tor the disabled,' she noted, adding that it was “one part of a lot of needs.” - ADAPT (1030)
Houston Center for Independent Living Spectrum July/August 1996 [Headline] ADAPT Action in Houston—The Story By Lee Sanders and Judy Ziegler HCIL and ADAPT of Houston Thanks to all who participated in the National ADAPT action that lasted from May 18th to May 23rd in our fair city. That action was successful! Over 400 people from all over the country participated in workshops and several protests at key places in the area. At the end of our time together, spirits were high. A national action is a time of rejuvenation. A time to recharge weary minds and bodies. All refreshed, advocates return home to add a new spirit into local community issues. ADAPT training had five workshops. U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Henry Cisneros came to address critical housing issues for people with disabilities. Mr. Cisneros spent most of the time fielding questions from the audience of disabled consumers and advocates. His final answer was that the government has no money for subsidy and HUD development programs. Everything had been cut to help balance the budget. No one was surprised. The next day we left the hotel by caravan to confront the regional office of the huge nursing home chain, Living Centers of America (the antithesis of Independent). We went to see Edward L. Kuntz, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Van after van brought advocates to the regional office until the police would allow no more to unload. The first advocates to arrive went inside and straight to the office. By the time the second group of vans arrived, the police had insisted that we leave the building. What a sight to see. The whole area in front of that huge building was a sea of wheelchairs, bodies, and faces of people with disabilities who cared enough to confront Living Centers of America. Five people were arrested. Dozens of vans had been used. Despite misinformation in the confusion of traffic, the third group of vans arrived. The advocates in that group continued to put the pressure on local police and fire officials by parking alongside the frontage road of Interstate 10 and in front of roadblocks set up to stop us from entering the grounds of the regional office. Vans came, stopped in front of the roadblock, and then people disembarked. The police became frustrated. We explained that we needed these vans to take overheated people away from the site. [Image] [Image caption] (left to right) Justin Dart & Henry Cisneros. Photo by H. G. Gearhart One unidentified police officer was heard to say, “This doesn’t look like a major exodus to me.” Finally, Living Centers of America invited us to stay in the building, but asked us to leave their private offices and lobby. They refused to agree with ADAPT on its demand for support of the Community Attendant Services Act (CASA) and 25% redirection of medicaid dollars from institutionalized care to community base attendant services. ADAPT surrendered the building. It was the same old story. They didn’t want to lower their profit margin by endorsing CASA. ADAPT wanted to ask for his support of CASA, and the right of a person with a disability to choose where he wanted to live in a nursing home or in his own home. We surrounded the place. Some in wheelchairs were helped up steps, where we “held” the place and waited for Mr. Polland. When Mr. Polland finally arrived, we cleared the driveway for his car. I think he was amazed to find such a large number of people with disabilities ready to do business. He finally agreed to write a letter to Republican candidate for President Bob Dole. ADAPT members helped to compose this letter and it was faxed to Mr. Dole’s office in Washington, D. C. Mr. Polland’s letter supported ADAPT’s belief that a person should should have a choice in his/her life and not be pushed by circumstance into a nursing home. Mr. Polland also extended an invitation to Bob Kakfa and Stephanie Thomas to attend the state Republican Party Convention. While this meeting was going on, others were being transported to another ADAPT action site. They were visiting the Stanford, Texas office of the Republican Party Whip, Tom DeLay. ADAPT carried the same demand: Support of the Community Attendant Services Act (CASA), and right to choose where we want to live. We also wanted a letter of support regarding these issues faxed to Congressman DeLay’s office in Washington, D.C. asking for his support. After much confrontation, the Stanford office reluctantly agreed to contact DeLong’s Washington office. The Washington office refused to cooperate. On the third day, we all rode to a pre-arranged place off Woodway and converged on the CIGNA Corporation. CIGNA is a giant profit making company specializing in managed care. We challenge CIGNA to 1. Support (in writing) ADAPT’s proposed legislation CASA. 2. Set up, within 90 days, a meeting between ADAPT representatives and the CEO and/or President of CIGNA. 3. Begin meeting with regional ADAPT groups around the country to discuss long term care issues and start to reverse the institutional bias in long term care. 4. Develop a training contract between CIGNA and ADAPT to train CIGNA case managers and other personnel on managers on home and continuing long term care needs and options for people with disabilities. CIGNA agreed to demands 2 and 3, mostly because CIGNA wanted us out of their offices, their lobby, their patio, and off their property entirely. The ADAPT Action received local television and newspaper coverage everyday. People with disabilities were not invisible, as we all too often are to those who won’t accept what we want. The ADAPT Action ended with a celebration. We came. We acted. We are strong. Nobody is going to turn us around. See you in Atlanta. - ADAPT (1031)
Houston Chronicle, Wednesday. May 22. 1996 [p. 22A] [Headline] Disabled protesters take over headquarters of county GOP By JENNIFER C. WANG Houston Chronicle Groups of protesters, most of them in wheelchairs, barricaded two local political offices Tuesday to demand changes in the way disabled people receive care in America. About 100 supporters of the advocacy group American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today took the Harris County Republican Party and denied party Garry Polland access to the building until he agreed to help their cause. A second group of about 150 ADAPT supporters blockaded and occupied U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay’s office in Sugar Land, until DeLay agreed to meet with them. ADAPT is a nonprofit group of activists who want federal funding for disabled and elderly care to be diverted from nursing homes to programs that provide in-home care or community-based care. ADAPT staged a similar demonstration Monday at Living Centers of America, one of the nation's largest operators of nursing homes, rehabilitation centers and other facilities. “Politicians in Houston are very important within our government. So, we want to make our case heard,” said Kathleen Kleinmann, an activist who traveled from Washington, Pa, to protest in front of the Republican Party Headquarters. "We are committed to getting attendant care as a national right. It is basically the same type of services as nursing homes - aides would help you get out of bed in the morning, help you get your food... but it keeps you in your own home and it gives you freedom," Kleinmann explained. At the Monday protest at the Living Centers of America, five people were arrested and spent the night in jail. Tuesday's protesters narrowly escaped arrest by Stafford police when DeLay, who is in Washington DC, agreed to meet with them next month. Both groups of protesters declared their demonstrations a success. Polland agreed to write presumptive GOP presidential nominee Bob Dole, Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and DeLay, urging them to meet with ADAPT at the party's state convention in August. Polland said he disagreed with ADAPT’s proposal to mandate a redistribution of funds, but that the group's demands are in line with Republican initiatives promoting choice, empowerment and health care vouchers. “This is really a Republican agenda," Polland said. “The system mandates certain types of treatment. That‘s their complaint." Mike Oxford, an ADAPT activist from Kansas said because meetings in the past with Dole and Gingrich have yielded no action, the group is cautious about promises for action from Polland and DeLay. “The problem with vouchers is it's like giving somebody a dollar and saying, ‘Here, go to Red Lobster.’ You‘ve got choices, but you've got to have resources to back that choice up, otherwise, it's meaningless," Oxford said. ADAPT, which stages two national protests each year, said it has more activities planned for Houston throughout the week but declined to reveal where or when. “We're going to dog this issue until we get it," Kleinmann said. “We're not going to give up. Never." PHOTO by John Everett / Chronicle Group of at least eight ADAPT protesters in wheelchairs and standing fill a small office with a door and reception desk. They are talking with a man in a white shirt and tie. One protester holds a sign that reads "Too Sexy for your Nursing Homes!" Caption reads: Harris County GOP chairman Gary Polland, standing, talks with members of an advocacy group for disabled rights Tuesday during the group's protest over the way disabled people receive care. - ADAPT (1032)
[This page continues the letter from 1034. Full text available under 1034 for easier reading.] - ADAPT (1033)
[This page continues the letter from 1034. Full text is available under 1034 for easier reading.] - ADAPT (1034)
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HOME CARE 228 Seventh Street, SE Washington, DC 20003 202/547-7424, 202/547-3540 fax MARY SUMER CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD VAL J. HALAMANDARLS PRESIDENT HONORABLE FRANK E. MOSS SENIOR COUNSEL STANLEY M. BRAND GENERAL COUNSEL MEMORANDUM June 15, 1997 TO: Members of American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT) FROM: Val J. Halamandari Mary Suther, Chair . On behalf of the National Association for Home Care (NAHC), we want to thank you for coming to our offices to bring to our attention issues of critical importance to ADAPT. Together, I am confident that we can address these issues which reflect our mutual concern for those who rely on home and community based services. Our commitment to the consumer is underscored in the opening lines of our mission statement that has been in place since the founding of the organization in 1982: NAHC is a professional association representing the interests of Americans who need home care (including acute, long term, and terminal care) and the caregivers who provide them with in-home health and supportive services. We have made many efforts to ensure a productive relationship between people with disabilities, their families, caregivers and the home care community. NAHC sits on the steering committee of the National Institute on Consumer Directed Care, sponsored by the National Council on Aging, to foster better collaboration on these issues. We were pleased to cosponsor, with a number of organizations (including the World Institute on Disability, NCOA, and several nursing organizations) a symposium on consumer-directed long term care services. We welcome the opportunity to work with you to make public policy more responsive to the needs of people with disabilities. We included advocates for people with disabilities at our conference on home care aide issues in the spring. We would welcome the opportunity to have a presentation by ADAPT members at the 16th Annual Meeting of the National Association for Home Care. The meeting will be held in Boston, October 17-22, 1997. We will work together to determine the best possible time. NAHC supports the right of consumers to choose the type of care and the caregiver that best suits their needs. We believe that federal policy and regulations should never become so cumbersome as to pose barriers to consumers accessing essential care. We believe consumers have the right to self-direct their care or choose administration of care by an agency without diminishing quality or quantity of care received. Consumers should be permitted to receive services through a combination of service delivery modes. However, at the same time, NAHC believes that both the consumer and the caregiver have rights. This includes a caregiver's right to compliance with applicable state and federal labor health and safety laws and regulations. It is incumbent on our organizations to make certain that these laws do not create barriers, but maintain the ability to protect caregivers. Home care and ADAPT have much in common. While we cannot direct the actions of our state affiliates, we will encourage our state home care associations to meet with local ADAPT groups on ways to create consumer driven attendant services. NAHC has consistently endorsed the following CASA principles, including those which would: * empower consumers with maximum control to select, manage, and control their attendant services, * maintain emphasis on community-based, not institutional care, * base eligibility on functional need, regardless of age and/or disability, * ensure that needed services are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, * ensure that needed back-up and emergency services are available, * authorize programs that allow for the development of options, such as vouchers; direct case payments to individual providers, and consumer directed agency models, with appropriate standards and safeguards to ensure quality of care, * ensure the appropriate delegation of health related tasks, make available voluntary training for consumers, * ensure that personal attendants receive livable wages and benefits, and * base attendant services on agreed-upon individualized service plans. NAHC has longstanding concerns about the imposition of home care copays due to their regressivity and likelihood of creating barriers to needed home care. Certainly, though, creative ideas need to be developed that would allow individuals with disabilities who are not currently eligible for Medicare or Medicaid to more fully access these vital programs. In addition, NAHC believes that individuals in need of home health services should be entitled to the same high quality and standards of care, regardless of their levels of income or source of public funding for their care. NAHC believes that every effort must be made to avoid unnecessary institutionalization. The National Association for Home Care is proud of our advocacy of home and community based alternatives to institutionalization. NANC's visibility and credibility on Capitol Hill, with the White House, and throughout the Nation, is linked to its name. Our name will remain the same. Our commitment to ensuring that "home care" is accessible, responsive to consumer needs, and encompasses more than "medically related" services, will continue. NAHC is already in on-going discussions with a number of beneficiary and disability groups on ways to have home care more available and tailored to individuals with chronic care needs. We look forward to including ADAPT members in these discussions, and including in our discussions the importance of developing transition plans for people with disabilities coming out of institutions. Thank you again for the opportunity to enter into a more direct dialogue with you on these important issues. We look forward to working toward enactment of these goals and principles. - ADAPT (1035)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1997 THE WASHINGTON TIMES Regional News [Image] [Image caption] Photo by Karen Ballard/The Washington Times. Protesters park their wheelchairs in front of a Greyhound bus yesterday in an attempt to disrupt service. Disabled activists protest bus service THE WASHINGTON TIMES About 70 handicapped activists in wheelchairs blocked streets and disrupted bus service at the downtown Greyhound station yesterday afternoon. They blocked the 100 block of L and First streets NW near Union Station, complaining about Greyhound's lack of progress in implementing regulations required by the Americans With Disabilities Act. Protesters began massing at both ends of L Street and around the front bus exit onto First Street NW demanding a meeting with Greyhound officials. "We want them to make all the buses accessible," said Clark Goodrich, 25, who traveled from Grand Rapids, Mich., for the week of protests. The group protested in front of the Department of Labor earlier yesterday before going to the bus station. Five buses carrying about 80 passengers were delayed about 30 minutes until Greyhound officials moved outgoing buses into a parking lot across L Street from the terminal. From there, passengers left for their destinations. Emma Gray, Greyhound's terminal manager in Washington, said most stations across the country have chair lifts to get handicapped passengers onto buses. "We just want to do our business, so we're doing it around them:' Mrs. Gray said of the protest. --Gary Scheets - ADAPT (1036)
Michael Oxford ADAPT P.O. Box 9598 Denver, CO 80209 Dear Michael: The President has scheduled a meeting with leaders of the disability community for September 10, 1997 to discuss issues important to people with disabilities, including personal assistance services. We would like to include representatives of ADAPT in that meeting. As you know, the Office of Public Liaison has been actively pursing the scheduling of a meeting between the President and leaders of the disability community. Prior to the meeting with the President, the White House will continue its consultative process with ADAPT and, in particular, begin a policy discussion regarding the issue of personal assistance services. The Administration will be represented by the White House Office of Public Liasion, Domestic Policy Council, National Economic Council, and the Department of Health and Human Services during the policy discussions with ADAPT. We are ready to begin the substantive policy discussions immediately and are waiting for ADAPT to propose dates for the first meeting. Please contact Bill White at (2020) 456-7032 to coordinate the first meeting. Sincerely, [Signed] Maria Echaveste [Typed] Maria Echaveste Assistant to the President Office of Public Liaison - ADAPT (1037)
- ADAPT (1037)
PHOTO: A crowd of ADAPT protesters some inside two ropes that make an aisle, others on the near side of the ropes, and still others on the far side. They are in front of a large government-type building with glass doors across the front. One person is holding up a pink sign that reads Endorse HR 2020. A woman in a white dress is holding onto the back of a chair, and on the back of her dress it reads "Jesus loves you he really does" in red under a red cross. There are at least 6 sets of doors which are all closed.