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...
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 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...
When Adults Are Diagnosed Late: Supporting Families Discovering Autism After Childhood A diagnosis at 34 doesn’t come with the paperwork trail a diagnosis at 4 does. Families discovering autism after...
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...
The Functioning Labels Debate: Why It Matters for Your Family’s Advocacy This isn’t an academic argument happening somewhere else. It shapes policy, drives funding decisions, and determines whether your adult...
Obtaining and Maintaining Identification Documents Every benefits application, every job opportunity, every bank account starts with a document most families assume is simple to get. For a Level 2/3 adult,...
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...
