Voting Rights and Civic Participation for Autistic Adults Autism and intellectual disability do not automatically disqualify anyone from voting, even under full guardianship in most states. That fact gets violated...
What Direct Support Professionals Wish Families Knew (And Vice Versa) The DSP workforce crisis gets discussed constantly in policy terms, wages, turnover rates, funding formulas. What almost never gets discussed...
Understanding Long Waitlists and What to Do While You Wait The HCBS waiver waitlist is rationing dressed in administrative language. The wait is real, the wait is long, and the...
Trauma-Informed Healthcare for Autistic Adults Why a routine doctor visit can feel like a battle, why the body remembers the last time, and what to bring with you so the...
Travel and Vacations with a Level 2/3 Autistic Adult Many families stop traveling entirely once the logistics start to feel impossible. They don’t have to. The logistics are learnable, and...
Transportation collapse as a hidden barrier A missed ride never shows up as its own line item anywhere. It shows up as a missed medical appointment, a lost shift, a...
The Olmstead Rollback: What the Executive Order on Institutionalization Means for Your Family On July 24, 2025, a federal executive order instructed the Attorney General to reverse the judicial precedents...
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 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...
The Letter of Intent: A Successor Caregiver’s Field Manual The single document that lets someone who has never lived with your adult know exactly how to support him next Tuesday....
