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45 Arrested as S.F. Protests by Disabled Continue Police arrested a disabled demonstrator blocking doors at the Old Federal Building at United Nclions Plow in San Francisco yesterday. He was among 45 people, many in wheelchairs, arrested during a protest seeking more federal money for home core, rather than nursing home care, for the disabled. There hove been several protests during a convention of nursing home operators.
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News Briefs Baltimore, Md.--Two former adversaries, Baltimore's Mass Transit Administration (MTA) and ADAPT (Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today, formerly Americans Disabled for Accessible Public Transportation), recently found themselves working together. This represents a positive change from the days when ADAPT was protesting against the transit industry in an attempt to achieve accessible public transportation for people with disabilities. Since Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act, ADAPT has shifted its focus from accessible transportation to attendant programs which foster community-based home care services. Recently, ADAPT members were in Baltimore to protest at the offices of the U.S. Health and Human Services Administration's Health Care Finance Administration. They needed transportation during their visit as well as for a follow-up protest at the office of U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Louis Sullivan in Washington, D.C. MTA provided the ADAPT protesters with two accessible buses that have been converted to accommodate multiple securement positions for wheelchair users. Project ACTION Update Summer 1991 9
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[Headline] Disabled Group Protests Disrupt AHCA Meetings by Allen Hogg A spokeswoman for the American Health Care Association (AHCA) charged that an organization for people with disabilities demonstrating at its meetings seems to have as its goal "creating confusion and getting publicity. An organizer of American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT) said she is half right. ADAPT co-founder Mike Auberger acknowledged that publicizing a cause is a primary reason why members of his group have been protesting at AHCA meetings around the country. These protests, which have been taking place throughout 1991, reached a peak at AHCA's annual meeting in Orlando, FL, in early October. Seventy-six of the more than 300 ADAPT members who went to the Orange County Convention Center were jailed for three days after blocking facility entrances, chaining themselves together by the neck, carrying signs and shouting slogans. Demonstrations such as this, said Auberger, result in "a lot of media attention and a lot of people all of a sudden understanding the issue." The issue, as Auberger presents it, is that too much federal money is being spent on long-term care at nursing homes, and not enough for health care provided at home. "We don't want to keep funding nursing homes," he said. "We want to redirect 25 percent of the nursing home Medicaid budget into personal assistant programs." ADAPT, which was founded in 1983, had been called Americans Disabled for Accessible Public Transportation while lobbying for the Americans with Disabilities Act. It adopted its new title after that law was passed. "We moved to this issue because it's probably the single largest issue right now for people with disabilities," Auberger said. He expressed his belief, however, that the redirection of resources ADAPT is advocating would give all taxpayers more bang for their bucks. "Care can pretty typically be pro-vided in the home with a higher level of quality and more economically," he said. "I don't know of anybody that wants to go to a nursing home. Most people have a sense that this is where you go to die." AHCA vice president of public relations Linda Keegan, whose group represents 10,000 non-profit and for-profit nursing homes, of course disagrees. According to Keegan, taking money from nursing homes is hardly a way to deal with "a dramatically expanding population in need of long-term care." "To assume that everybody in a nursing home could be better cared for at home is just unrealistic," she said. "We make choices available." Keegan said it's particularly unfortunate that ADAPT protests disrupt AHCA meetings at which the group's members are trying to learn how to offer better care. "Any deterrent to people trying to get an education is a shame," she commented. In order to quell the protests, AHCA has had meetings with ADAPT representatives several times over the past year at which AHCA has attempted to reach a compromise with the protestors. But to Keegan, ADAPT leaders have seemed uninterested in putting together a position that might lead to real public policy change. "I'm not sure that was ever their objective," she said. Auberger countered that ADAPT does want public policy change, and would be glad to work with AHCA -- if that group agreed that less federal funding should be given to nursing homes. "If they were to support the issue that would be great," he said. In the meantime, he sees little hope of ADAPT members having the clout in Washington that professional lobbyists do. "Grassroots disability people can't afford to pay for lobbying," he commented. Thus the protests at AHCA meetings will continue in the hopes of getting media attention and swaying public support. Auberger said plans to demonstrate at the group's October 1992 meeting in San Francisco are already underway. "When we get to the final end, we'll be victorious," he vowed.
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A-18 The Orlando Sentinel, Thursday, October 10, 1991 The Orlando Sentinel FOUNDED 1876 633 N. ORANGE AVE., ORLANDO, FLA. 32801-1349 407 420-5000 HAROLD R. LIFVENDAHL, President and Publisher L JOHN HAILE JR. Vice President and Editor • STEPHEN R. VAUGHN, Executive Editor WILLIAM B. DUNN, Managing Editor JANE E. HEALY, Associate Editor JAMES P. TONER, Associate Managing Editor MANNING PYNN, Associate Managing Editor • Deputy Managing Editors MICHAEL W. BALES GEORGE C. BIGGERS III STEVEN L. DOYLE DANA S. EAGLES [Headline] Get realistic about Medicaid Disabled activists attracted considerable attention this week in Orlando with their attempts to disrupt a convention of nursing home operators. They, in turn, countered with slick press packages and media briefings. How inane did the rhetoric get? Well, the disabled called for an end to all nursing homes. And conventioneers painted ridiculously rosy pictures of life in a nursing home and criticized the protesters for refusing to negotiate with them on Medicaid spending. How absurd. The nursing home lobby may be powerful, but it is still the job of government officials to negotiate Medicaid spending. And that's where these demonstrations should have been directed a lawmakers. For despite all the grandstanding this week, both have legitimate concerns that Mate and federal leaders need to address. Nursing home operators, for example, are right to demand that loopholes in Medicaid eligibility be tightened so that more tax dollars can be spent to care for those who truly need it. As for the disabled, they certainly have a worthwhile cause in fighting for cost-effective assistance programs that can help them stay at home instead of in government-funded nursing home beds. Clearly, the Medicaid system is headed for collapse if lawmakers don't start adopting more innovative means to contain sky-rocketing health care costs. Spirited debate and rational ideas are needed to help pull America from the brink of this crisis. Enough rhetoric. Let's all focus on real issues and reasonable answers. [Headline] Job well done Despite the madness and mayhem at the convention center, two organizations are to be commended for the way they conducted themselves this week: The Orange County jail and the sheriffs office. Both groups carefully planned and pre-pared themselves for handling the disabled protesters. Because deputies studied previous protests, they were able to minimize illegal disruptions. More important, they underwent special training and added extra staff and equipment so that the disabled could be properly aired for while in their custody. Looks like a job well done.
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The Washington Post Thursday, May 2, 1991 C3 [image] [image caption] Phyllis Burkhead, of Louisville, who is unable to speak, spells out a message to another member of the protest. [Headline] Disabled Protesters Decry Lack of Aid By Eric Charles May and Debbi Wilgoren Washington Post Staff Writers A group of disabled people threw themselves from their wheelchairs to the ground in front of the Department of Health and Human Services yesterday to protest a lack of federal funding for home-care attendants. The demonstrators called for HHS Secretary Louis W. Sullivan to redirect Medicaid funding from nursing homes for the disabled to care provided by personal attendants, a change they said would enable more disabled people to live independent lives. "We're not talking about raising taxes, but [about redirecting money," said Mike Auberger, 36, of Denver. Auberger is a leader of the group that organized the protest, American disabled for Attendant Programs Today. He spoke to reporters after using bicycle locks to chain himself by the neck to the building, at Third Street and Independence Avenue SW. About 20 of the 110 demonstrators threw themselves from their wheelchairs and wriggled toward a barricade of police cars parked in front of the building. Six people threaded a chain through their wheelchairs and positioned themselves in front of the building's parking garage exit. "We'll make it obvious to [Sullivan] that we are serious," said Stephanie Thomas, 33, of Austin, Tex., as she looked out from under a white police sedan. HHS The released a statement saying it "shared the concerns" of the group, but did not have authority to change Medicaid funding, which is allocated by the states. Police dismantled the human blockade of the garage at 4:40 p.m. by cutting the chain with a bolt cutter and wheeling protesters away. The protesters held a news conference and then wheeled themselves toward the Federal Center Metro station in Southwest. Several motorists honked their car horns in support as the group rolled by.
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The Appalachian Reader Regional News [image] [image caption] Tennessee ADAPT organizer and activist Diane Coleman helps block the entrance to an Orlando hotel where nursing home representatives are meeting. [Headline] Tennessee activists travel to Orlando to protest institutionalizing of disabled Members of ADAPT of Tennessee (Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today), along with ADAPT activists from around the country, descended on Orlando, Florida, during the second week in October to protest the warehousing of many of their fellow disabled citizens in nursing homes. The protests, at the hotel where the American Health Care Association was meeting, were held to call attention to the fact that, while millions of dollars are spent each year to institutionalize disabled people, almost nothing is spent to provide attendant services that could enable those people to stay at home in the community, with their families and friends. More than 200 members of ADAPT blocked entrances to the hotel on several different occasions during the week, and many were arrested and jailed. Inside, representatives of most of the nation's nursing homes met to learn how to run them better. Outside, activists insisted that if even one quarter of the money spent by Medicaid on nursing home care were re-channelled into attendant services, thousands of disabled people could be released from the homes' restrictive and often humiliating care. For more information on the actions, or about ADAPT of Tennessee, contact Diane Olin at 1478 Stayton Road, Cumberland Furnace, Tennessee 37051 or call (615) 789-5236.
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[Headline] National Activism By Mike Boyd In following up on the letter from the President of the Survivors Advisory Council, published in the last edition of the Journal, members of the JMA Survivors Advisory Council went to Baltimore, April 27-May 2, 1991 to report on ADAPT (American Disabled for Attendant Pro-grams Today) and their action to secure what they define as one of the leading problems facing the seriously disabled, the services of "Attendant Care." In speaking with Diane Coleman, ADAPT organizer, attorney and friend, I developed a much greater appreciation for the dedication of ADAPT members and their fight to redirect existing federal funding to better assist the estimated 7.7 million people in the United States who require help on a daily basis. It is estimated that approximately half of these people are not getting the necessary support (World Institute on Disability). According to ADAPT, nursing home costs aver-age over $30,000 per citizen per year, while enabling individuals to live in their own homes with these services would cost approximately 25% of that figure, or $7,500 per year. This cost savings in dollars is incredible, but the difference in quality of living goes beyond any description in terms of what we are promised in the ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Claude Holcomb, another ADAPT activist stated, 4'1 was in a nursing home for thirteen years. I had to fight to get out. It was the beginning of my life at 22." Many others traveled to the demonstrations from all over the United States to try and convince Louis Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human Services, that disability funding was being misspent at the expense of the very people it was intended to help. Three days of attempted negotiations at the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), Social Security Administration (SSA), and in Washington, D.C. produced national attention. ADAPT demonstrators blocked the entrances and exits of government buildings, shutting down the agencies in protest of what some said are anti-disabled policies. No arrests took place. Some contend that the overfund-ing of institutionalization benefit-ting private corporations and the underfunding of ATTENDANT SERVICES to assist PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES is a dramatic statement of the "Plantation System Mentality" that still exists in our nation's capitol and exploits the disabled and mars promises of equal rights. Nate Butler makes a profound point in an interview in Head-Stand, the publication of the Mary-land Head Injury Foundation: "The disability movement doesn't incorporate brain injuries and brain injured people don't like to be a part of the disability movement." The comment is an overgeneralization, but one that we need to address in our own search for equality and the promises of the American Dream. An injury to One is an injury to All, we need to band together." We certainly owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to the ADAPT leadership acid their role 6n the ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act, which has been described as the greatest piece of Disability Civil Rights legislation ever enacted.