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...
The Waskul settlement changed Michigan self-determination. Are you using your new rights? A federal court set a floor under Community Living Supports budgets, gave administrative law judges the power to...
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...
Your rights under the Michigan Mental Health Code A psychiatric crisis strips away the illusion that you’re in control of anything. The Mental Health Code says you and your family...
The Waskul settlement and what it means in meetings A 2013 class action settlement already tells your CMH exactly how services are supposed to be decided. Most families have never...
Isolation as disability discrimination Years alone at home with no day program, no transportation, and no plan is not simply a gap in services. Under federal law, unnecessary segregation of...
K.B. v. Michigan DHHS: what the children’s HCBS settlement means for adult services A federal court made Michigan build statewide intensive home and community based services for children. Your adult...
HCBS Settings Rule Compliance in 2026: What Actually Changes for Families After years of statewide transition plans, provider audits, and compliance deadlines, the federal HCBS Settings Rule is finally reaching...
Autism and the Criminal Justice System: When Your Adult Child Is a Suspect, Victim, or Witness Autistic adults are disproportionately represented in the criminal justice system, in every role that...
42 states have supported decision-making laws. Michigan still doesn’t. Twenty-four states and DC have a supported decision-making statute. Eighteen more require courts to consider it before appointing a guardian. Michigan...
