[Headline] ADAPT: FREE OUR PEOPLE

[Subheading] STATEMENT AT THE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES BUILDING
MAY 15, 1995
PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES FROM THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES ARE AT THE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES BUILDING BECAUSE ALMOST 2 MILLION PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ARE LOCKED AWAY AGAINST THEIR WILL IN NURSING HOMES AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS.

ADAPT WANTS TO FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE OUR LONG TERM CARE SYSTEM SO THAT PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES WILL NO LONGER BE FORCED INTO NURSING HOMES AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS.

WE WANT TO REDIRECT THE CURRENT FEDERAL FUNDING NOW GOING TO NURSING HOMES AND OTHER. INSTITUTIONS TO CREATE A NATIONAL ATTENDANT SERVICES PROGRAM THAT WILL FREE OUR PEOPLE!

WE HAVE CHALLENGED THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION TO ENDORSE A NATIONAL ATTENDANT SERVICES PROGRAM. THEY HAVE RESPONDED!

WE WILL BE MEETING WITH SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES DONNA SHALALA AND THE DIRECTOR OF THE HEALTH CARE FINANCING ADMINISTRATION BRUCE VLADECK ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 17TH AT THE HHS BUILDING.

ADAPT WILL TELL THEM THAT PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES WILL NO LONGER TOLERATE BEING WAREHOUSED IN INSTITUTIONS LOSING OUR FREEDOM, DIGNITY AND OUR CIVIL RIGHTS.

WE WANT THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION TO ACT! SECRETARY SHALALA MUST ACT! THE TIME FOR CHANGE IS NOW! ACTION NOT RHETORIC!

WE WANT THEM TO ENDORSE CASA AND THE IT IS BASED ON. ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS!

WE WILL NOW TAKE OUR MESSAGE TO CONGRESS! ADAPT HAS PROPOSED LEGISLATION CALLED THE COMMUNITY ATTENDANT SERVICES ACT (CASA). CASA WILL CREATE THE NATIONAL ATTENDANT SERVICES PROGRAM THAT WILL FINALLY GIVE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND THEIR FAMILIES A REAL CHOICE OF COMMUNITY BASED ATTENDANT SERVICES.

WE WANT CONGRESS TO PASS CASA! ONLY THEN WILL THE NURSING HOME INDUSTRY LOSE IT DEATHGRIP ON PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY WHO NEED LONG TERM CARE SERVICES.

WE WILL TAKE CASA TO THE LEADERSHIP IN CONGRESS! THEY MUST ACT! THEY MUST FREE OUR PEOPLE!

P.O. Box 9598 • Denver, CO. 80209 Voice/TDD 303-333-6698

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