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Help for the Caring Crisis
The workforce that supports people with intellectual and developmental disabilities has long been plagued by low wages, high turnover, and high vacancy rates. Edited by ICI's Amy Hewitt and Susan O'Nell, a new guidebook by the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities offers hope. "You can reduce turnover, despite many people thinking it is not possible.”
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Let's Not Let Decades of Disability Progress Be Erased
Programs like ours have long enjoyed strong bipartisan support because they work. They are cost-effective, rooted in community, and results-driven. They prepare professionals, empower families, support self-advocates, and help shape the policies that keep people with disabilities out of institutions and living with dignity in their communities.
We must act before this progress is undone. Without continued federal support, the systems that empower people with disabilities to live, learn, and thrive in their communities are at serious risk.
Square One, and Back
As states move away from center-based day programs and sheltered workshops paying subminimum wages to people with disabilities, service provider agencies trying to shift to meaningful day services and competitive employment face frequent challenges, including reluctant employers and family members wary of the changes.
ICI's Minnesota Transformation Initiative assists providers looking to move away from subminimum wages and center-based models
