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The Handicapped Coloradan [Headline] Vice President's own state named worst for home attendant care Tennessee Vice President Al Gore's home state was named by ADAPT as the worst state in the country when it comes to diverting Medicaid money from nursing homes into community based home attendant care. President Clinton's home state of Arkansas escaped a "worst ten" designation but was one of five states which made the "Dishonorable Mention" list. The other nine states mostly from the south or midwest—on the "worst" list were Mississippi, Louisiana, Missouri, Georgia, Illinois, Florida, Ohio and Kentucky. The other dishonorable mentions included Washington, D C:, Texas, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. The "awards" were announced on Mother's Day, Sunday, May 10, in Court Square in downtown Memphis. Mike Auberger, the national ADAPT organizer from Denver, presented the first place award to Deborah Cunningham, director of the Memphis Center for Independent Living. Cunningham said she would personally deliver the award to Tennessee Gov. Don Sundquist. Other speakers at the rally included Charles Hall of Tennessee People First who is suing the state to close down institutions for persons with developmental disabilities. Also present were Mary Stockley of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) and LaTonya Reeve, a former resident of Memphis, who said "I'm ashamed to say that I'm from Tennessee ! had to leave the city of Memphis and move to Den-ver to get attendant services." Following the speeches, 200 demonstrators took up a vigil on McElmore Street across from the Kings Daughters and Sons Home which is a nursing home composed almost entirely of younger persons with disabilities. As the crowd chanted, "Can you hear us, on the inside?" and "Free our people now!", two ADAPT members laid flowers at the entrance to the nursing home. "We wanted our brothers and sisters who are still being warehoused in nursing homes to know that those of us on the outside continue to fight for their freedom and their right to choose where they live, " said Dawn Russell of Memphis. Vice President Gore declined an invitation to meet with ADAPT in Memphis. "I don't know how Gore can sleep at night knowing about all the persons trapped and dying in Tennessee nursing homes. He hasn't lifted a finger to help us," said Dawn Russell of Memphis. ADAPT's legislation, H.R. 2020, also known as the Medicaid Community Attendant Services Act of 1997 or MiCASA (Spanisn for My House), is co-sponsored by House Minority Leader Richard Gebhardt and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Although President Clinton has personally told ADAPT members that he supports their goals, the administration has yet to take an offi-cial position on the house bill. Additional stories on ADAPT actions or members can be found on pages 30-32. The Handicapped Colorado thanks for ADAPT for furnishing this information. Call 303-333-6698 for more information on this organization. - ADAPT (1838)
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[Headline] Blank opened many doors for people in wheelchairs The nation has lost a tireless advocate for human rights with the untimely death of Wade Blank, the Denver activist whose work helped to spark the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Blank, 52, who drowned this week while trying to rescue his 8-year-old son from heavy surf off Baja California, had spent the past 20 years working to make public facilities more accessible to people in wheelchairs and to help the developmentally disabled lead more independent lives. A former Presbyterian minister, he co-founded the Atlantis Community in Denver in the mid-1970s and later organized wheelchair protests that forced the Regional Transportation District to install lifts on all its buses. His latest work had been aimed at getting Congress to recognize home health care as a basic right and to provide attendants who would enable the handicapped to live by themselves instead of in nursing homes. Blank, who was able-bodied, always insisted that society should adapt to the needs of the disabled, rather than vice versa. For that, he will always have a place of honor in the hearts of those who understand the true meaning of the words freedom and equality. - ADAPT (1765)
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PHOTO Tom Olin: A young woman [Julie Farrar] in a manual wheelchair holds a small child in her lap. Farrar is yelling and has a large poster taped across her lap and her child (who is snoozing). The poster reads "Mom and Dad can't have sex in the nursing home." Someone is standing behind them. - ADAPT (882)
PHOTO 1 by Jeff Scheid, Review Journal: Two police officers in a group of five lift a small woman [Spitfire] in pink sweatpants and a headband up from the street to her wheelchair. Someone with a camera is filming in the background. Caption reads: Las Vegas police carry away Eileen "Spitfire" Sabel of Philiadelphia, one of 180 protesters cited Wednesday for blocking Paradise Road. PHOTO 2 by Clint Karlsen, Review Journal: A man [John Hoffman] with no legs and only a short arm and finger, in a motorized wheelchair, lifts his arm in front of the ADAPT flag. This is like an American flag with stars arranged as a person in a wheelchair. Two people are holding the flag so it is fully spread out and a woman in a wheelchair is carrying it. Hoffman is wearing an ADAPT or Perish tshirt, goggles and a camo hat. Caption reads: John Hoffman of Austin, Texas, takes part in the demonstration to urge that more money be directed to help disabled people live on their own. [Headline] Disabled-rights group protest blocks Paradise Road travel [Subheading] Police cite 180 people near the convention center while a district judge issues a restraining order. By Jan Greene Review-Journal In a second day of high-profile protesting, a disabled-rights group Wednesday closed down Paradise Road near the Las Vegas Hilton for a few hours, prompting police to cite 180 demonstrators for assembling unlawfully. The protesters, many being arrested for the second time in two days, went along peacefully with Metropolitan Police Department officers specially trained to deal with people in wheelchairs. Meanwhile, a District Court judge granted a temporary restraining order barring the protesters from repeating Tuesday's actions at the Las Vegas Convention Center, where 76 people were cited for trespassing after they stormed the doors of an American Health Care Association meeting. That association, which represents nursing homes, is regularly the target of protests by ADAPT, Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today. ADAPT wants 25 percent of the federal funding that now goes to nursing homes for long-term care of the elderly and disabled to go toward services such as personal attendants that would allow those people to live on their own. The nursing home association agrees there should be more money for home care, but that it shouldn't be shifted from nursing homes. This is the fifth annual confrontation between the two groups, but the first time the health care association has sought a court order restricting the protests. Wednesday's temporary order, signed by District Judge Nancy Becker, is a civil order prohibiting demonstrators from trespassing on the convention center areas being leased by the association, or from banging on doors or obstructing access to the convention. Today is the last day of the meeting. Association Vice President Linda Keegan said the order was obtained to ensure conventioneers' safety and avoid disruption, but allows ADAPT to demonstrate in a special area set aside in the convention center parking lot. Asked how the order could actually be used to stop or punish protesters, Keegan said she wasn't sure. The order says anyone violating it can be found in contempt of court. ADAPT regularly uses tactics that result in their members' citation or arrest to draw attention to their cause, which is to give people the opportunity to live away from nursing homes if they want. In Wednesday's protest, about 250 people, many in wheelchairs, assembled at the intersection of Paradise Road and Riviera Boulevard. Around noon, they moved into the street and blocked it. After about an hour of chanting and noisemaking, the Nevada Highway Patrol gave the word that the assembly was illegal because it was blocking a state thoroughfare. They gave people five minutes to disperse and then Las Vegas police moved in and methodically began arresting people. A total of 180 people were cited. Of those, 72 were cited in the street and 108 were actually arrested and taken to a temporary detention center before being processed and released. The event closed Paradise Road until about 3 p.m. - ADAPT (1316)
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Testimony HR 2020 When I was younger, I lived at Ridge-Home, which was a Nursing Home for people who Doctors thought society would not except. I lived there for over 5 years. Then I was put in Heritage House Nursing Home for 4 more years. I did not like these Nursing Homes, I had to fight to get any care at all, at times there was not enough Doctors for all of us, so many times I would get the wrong medication. They also gave shots for reasons I do not know to this day. Now I live independently with the help of attendants who come to my home 2 times a day, morning and evening. I own my own home, and live with my roommate Bobby Simpson. I am very happy being free. I'd like to have HR 2020 passed so that people have more choices of where to live, instead of Nursing Homes, so that people can live in the community. Thank you for your support on HR 2020. Tubby Peyrouse 420 Dale Ct. Denver, Colo 80219 - ADAPT (947)
The Detroit News The Final Word 20c daily for home delivery; 50c outside 6-county metro area 35c Tuesday, Oct. 24, 1995 [Headline] Disabled seize state GOP offices [Subheading] Lansing protesters want more funds for home care By Mark Hornbeck Detroit News Lansing Bureau LANSING — Some 200 handicapped protesters seized the state Republican Party headquarters Monday for more than two hours and demanded to talk with Gov. John Engler and U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich about spending more federal money for home care. Members of the militant American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT), many in wheel-chairs, arrived in vans at the GOP offices on Lansing's east side about 3 p.m. and crowded into the small building. Eight staffers fled through the back door, and two others were trapped inside for more than an hour until Lansing Township police arrived to escort them out. ADAPT leaders talked with aides to Engler and Gingrich. They cleared out of the building by 5:30 p.m. Lansing Township Police Chief Jeff Ashley said one woman was arrested for kicking a police officer in the thigh. She was given a personal appearance notice and was released. She was identified as Leslie Cronk of Lansing. "We weren't going to make mass arrests," Ashley said "We just waited them out." No serious injuries were reported. "They blocked the exits and made a few rude comments, but that was about it," said Lori Tomek, communications director for the state GOP, who was one of the two GOP employees trapped in the building. Bob Liston of Ypsilanti, state organizer for ADAPT, said the aim of the protest was to draw attention to the plight of the handicapped in nursing homes. ADAPT wants 20 percent of the $65 billion in Medicaid flInds redirected from nursing homes to home or community care. "Engler is helping Gingrich and (U.S. Senate Majority Leader) Bob Dole write the federal block grant legislation, so this seemed like the place to be to have impact," Liston said. Engler, a national leader on welfare reform, was in Cincinnati Monday at a National Governors Association conference. ADAPT leaders wrote him a letter requesting a meeting two weeks ago, Liston said. Engler spokesman John Truscott met with them at GOP headquarters and told them the governor would be unavailable for a meeting. "We're not going to react to these kinds of threats," Truscott said. "The irony of this is the governor supports private home care because it offers better care and is less expensive. So they came to the wrong place." Mark Johnson, a national leader of ADAPT, said he talked with Gingrich aides on the telephone from the party offices. He said the speaker's aides promised there would be a bill calling for more money for home care, but they refused to say when it would be introduced. "We'll stay in town until we get a chance to talk with Gov. Engler," said Johnson, who lives in Gingrich's U.S. House district in Georgia. Johnson said the protesters, who carried signs that said "Nursing homes kill" and "Newt Gingrich doesn't get it," were from 20 states. They reportedly were registered in nearly 140 rooms at the Radisson Hotel near the state Capitol. Earlier this year, ADAPT conducted protests in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. State GOP Chairwoman Susy Heintz, who watched the protest from her car in the parking lot, said she was concerned about files and computer equipment in the building. But a check after the protesters left turned up no apparent damage. "I don't think there was anything we could have done to satisfy them," she said. "This is an in-your-face kind of group." Earlier Monday, the protesters temporarily closed down Walden book stores at two Lansing area malls and knocked Gingrich's books off shelves. [Image] [Image caption] Protesters jam the GOP offices in Lansing on Monday. Dale G. Young /The Detroit News - ADAPT (789)
[Headline] SHALALA RESPONDS TO ADAPT: A States’ Rights Approach By Bob Kafka At ADAPT’s May 10th meeting in D.C. with Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala, she committed to respond to the five ADAPT demands within 30 days She kept that promise with a letter dated June 10th. However, the Secretary’s response was disappointing! ADAPT's Demands 1) Create a National Attendant Services Program; 2) Redirect Medicaid nursing home funds for a National Attendant Services Program; 3) Appoint a HHS liaison to ADAPT; 4) Include ADAPT in all future Clinton Administrations discussions on Long Term Care; 5) Hold 10 Regional Forums, coordinated with ADAPT, on Attendant Services. Shalala meets with ADAPT in DC Photo by Tom Olin - ADAPT (1727)