The two bills that could actually save your services One puts emergency money into a collapsing workforce for two years. The other removes the structural rule that makes an institution...
Michigan’s FY27 budget, read the way a disability family reads it Seventy five point two billion dollars, signed on July 21, 2026. Direct care wages held. The autism navigator survived....
What $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts means for your family Home and community based services are optional under federal Medicaid law. Nursing facilities are not. When federal money contracts, states...
How Oakland County families killed a $215 million rate cut Section 1033 would have stripped $4.56 an hour out of direct care agency rates while leaving the wage mandate in...
How to Testify at the Michigan Legislature: A Practical Guide for Families Three minutes. That’s often all the time a family gets in front of a legislative committee. Used well,...
The Michigan Advocacy Toolkit: 7 Free Resources Every Family Should Know Seven free, real, currently active tools and organizations, each doing something specific a Michigan family can put to use...
The Michigan 5-Step Transition Survival Guide Five specific steps, in order, for a Michigan family navigating the years around their autistic child’s eighteenth birthday. No single one of these is...
Why Your IEP Transition Plan Is Probably Failing (And What to Fix) Research on IEP transition plans finds an average of roughly three goals per student, with barely more than...
The Transition Crisis in Numbers: What the Data Actually Shows Roughly fifty thousand autistic young people turn 18 every year in the United States. The research tracking what happens to...
The ADA at 35: Why Severe Autism Still Gets Left Behind by the Law’s Own Framework Thirty-five years after the Americans with Disabilities Act became law, a July 2025 report...
