Is the research reliable?

[Developmental Disabilities Advocates]

I am posting this hear because many of you use community services or
need community services and I am tired of the misleading information
that is used to pit one group of advocates against another. We are all
in this together looking for what is the best way to serve all. We can
only do this by looking critically at the information and questioning.
Many community advocates do not want this information made public and
I have received many letters accusing me of manipulation of data (they
didn't even look at the data so how would they know it was
manipulated) and worse. Many of these so-called advocates only repeat
what they have heard and use quotes from both the US DD Act and the
1999 US Supreme Court Decision Olmstead that have been taken out of
context or worse - totally false.

Before sending me hate mail, please do read this information. There
will be more coming soon with regards to the non-profits and
proprietary agencies which run many of the supported living homes for
people with DD/ID and the true costs for direct and indirect care for
our loved ones who need out of home placements. When looking at the
facts, people will be surprised. This is one reason why there is a
crisis - people have been making decisions based on false and
inaccurate information.

I will gladly answer questions and provide resources to those who ask.


http://becausewecare1.com/2012/06/09/to-the-arc-and-other-community-advocates-for-people-with-intellectual-disabilities/

[Bob Gee G & G]

I just went to the link and read the report and was confused by the ad. It
detracts from the message. Perhaps an more thorough explanation before the
quote would be helpful. As I read it I thought at first it just confirmed
that the RHC population are the most needy and therefore we can expect
higher costs attendant to their care. In other words it supported our claim
of the need for RHC's to provide the increased level of need.

Bob Gee

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[Developmental Disabilities Advocates]

Hi Bob,

I'm not sure which ad you are talking about. Yes, the quotes from the
report do clearly verify that the RHC population are the most needy
and therefore have higher care costs - that is why it is so misleading
that the "Key Findings" of this report - the findings that the
legislators and so-called advocates clung to was that "RHC and
Community Residential" were the same and they were higher than "other
community".

This is because the author could not (as an employee of DSHS) write
the key finding as they really presented themselves - 3 distinct
settings with 3 distinct support needs, the RHC residents being the
highest, followed by Community Residential and Other Community. If
the data was presented as it was proven, it would have undermined
their agenda.

I know you understand this so I'm not quite sure how to fix this so
that it makes sense. Let me know and I will do my best to make it
clear.

Thanks,

Cheryl

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