Transportation barriers (paratransit, NEMT, brokerages, and workarounds) A missed pickup doesn’t just cost a ride. It costs the appointment, the day program slot, the job shift, and sometimes the entire...
Influencing your local CMH board (who’s who and how to testify) Somewhere in your county, twelve people you’ve never met vote on the policies and budgets that shape your family...
MiNavigator and other Michigan navigation supports Somewhere in Michigan’s state government sits a program built specifically to help families like yours find their way through the maze. Most families reach...
Budget cuts and loss of navigation resources When a state cuts funding to the organization that helps you find every other service, the cut doesn’t show up on a services...
Special education funding reform and the MI Blueprint School funding sounds like someone else’s fight once your child ages out. It isn’t. Every dollar Michigan fails to invest in special...
Understanding service deserts and waitlist delays Some Michigan counties simply don’t have the service you need, at any price, on any waitlist. That’s not a failure of your advocacy. It’s...
Long Term Care Ombudsman for Adult Foster Care (AFC) residents An adult in AFC has an independent advocate whose entire job is investigating exactly the complaints families are afraid to...
Therapy and peer groups near you (including neurodiversity-affirming groups) Isolation is one of the quietest crises in adult autism services, and it hits differently depending on your zip code. Metro...
Project SEARCH and other Michigan employment pathways A year spent training entirely inside a real workplace, not a classroom simulation, changes what employers see and what students believe about themselves....
Intentional communities (LINCs, ICW) and alternatives to group homes Group homes run on facility schedules, not individual ones. A small number of Michigan communities flipped that arrangement, giving adults their...
