Michigan’s Habilitation Supports Waiver, step by step The HSW is the funding source behind most adult autism services in Michigan, and almost nobody explains it in order. Here is the...
Organizing locally (support groups, coalitions, mutual aid) When the formal system lags, four or five families who trust each other can build something the state hasn’t. A shared ride, a...
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....
Self-determination and self-directed budgets Hiring your own staff and controlling your own budget sounds like freedom, and it is, right up until you realize you’ve become an unlicensed small employer....
Michigan Rehabilitation Services: the employment resource nobody mentions Michigan Rehabilitation Services is federally mandated to provide free employment services to people with disabilities, autism included, starting years before graduation. Most...
Michigan’s PIHP maze Why the county line you live on decides whether your autistic adult gets day programming, crisis support, and respite, or waits years for any of it. By...
MI-CARE Clinic and other IDD-affirming care models Fifteen-minute appointments and rushed exam rooms fail autistic adults in specific, predictable ways. A handful of Michigan clinics built something different. Most families...
MiABLE accounts and Michigan-specific tax benefits Every dollar saved for your adult child’s future used to threaten the $2,000 SSI asset limit. MiABLE changed that math, and Michigan added a...
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...
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...
