Michigan-Specific

Michigan is where the decisions actually land. A waiver amendment signed in Lansing, a rate add-on that expires, a community mental health board with no one left to send: those are the things that determine what an autistic adult does on a Tuesday morning.

This category tracks Michigan specifically. The three waivers and who qualifies for each, MDHHS policy changes and how they get made, county-level service availability, court rulings that changed state practice, and the services that have quietly come off the list. If you are trying to find out what Michigan owes your family and what it has stopped providing, start here.

Tracking What’s Disappearing: A Michigan Service Elimination Watchlist

Advocacy Resources Crisis Timeline Michigan-Specific Service Eliminations

Tracking What’s Disappearing: A Michigan Service Elimination WatchlistOne Michigan service is confirmed gone. Five more items are moving. This is a living inventory families can check, built only from things...

Comparison Tools How-To Guides Medicaid Michigan-Specific

Michigan’s Three Waivers Explained: HSW, MI Choice, and the Children’s WaiverMichigan runs three separate home and community based waivers, and they do not connect the way families assume. Different eligibility,...

Legal Developments Legislative Action Michigan-Specific Policy Analysis

MDHHS Tried to Consolidate Michigan’s Behavioral Health System. A Court Stopped It.Ten regional entities would have become three. A consultant was paid millions to design the procurement. In January 2026...

Funding & Rates Michigan-Specific State Comparisons Workforce Crisis

Illinois Built the DSP Wage Into the Rate. Michigan Stacked Three Temporary Add-Ons.Both states raised direct care wages. Only one of them made the raise permanent. Michigan’s entire increase sits...

Data & Research Medicaid Michigan-Specific Waiting Lists

63 Months: The Average Wait for Autism Services Through Medicaid WaiversMore than five years. That is the national average wait for an autism-specific Medicaid waiver, against 37 months for intellectual...

Level 2/3 Autism Michigan-Specific Personal Stories Provider Sustainability

Ten ABA agencies refused to serve my son: when the system isn’t built for severe autism A mother in California counted the refusals. Ten agencies, each saying they lacked qualified...

Advocacy Resources Budget & Appropriations Legislative Action Michigan-Specific

5 bills every Michigan disability family should know about in 2026 Four federal bills and one state budget fight. Each one has a bill number, a committee, and a person...

Comparison Tools Legal Developments Level 2/3 Autism Michigan-Specific

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...

Advocacy Resources Legal Developments Medicaid Michigan-Specific

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...

Funding & Rates Michigan-Specific State Comparisons Workforce Crisis

Michigan pays direct care workers $17.13. Illinois pays $21.30. Same labor market, same year, same job. A four dollar and seventeen cent gap that Michigan rebuilds by hand every single...