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...
Self-direction as a survival strategy: when you can’t find a worker, become the employer Every state and the District of Columbia now offer some form of consumer-directed personal care. In...
Can Michigan pay you to care for your adult child? A step-by-step guide to Home Help Yes, once they turn eighteen. Michigan’s Home Help program is a Medicaid State Plan...
Building evidence that gets services approved: photograph, video, write it down Five kinds of evidence decide most waiver and service disputes, and four of them you have to create yourself....
Michigan’s day program landscape after prevocational services disappeared Michigan removed Prevocational Services from the Habilitation Supports Waiver in the renewal effective October 2024 and gave families six months to land...
When the hours are authorized and nobody shows up A denial you can appeal. An unfilled shift is not a denial, so most families have no idea it is actionable...
Michigan’s FY27 budget, read the way a disability family reads it Seventy five point two billion dollars, signed on July 21, 2026. Direct care wages held. The autism navigator survived....
What $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts means for your family Home and community based services are optional under federal Medicaid law. Nursing facilities are not. When federal money contracts, states...
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,...
