Iowa has received a five-year $51 million federal grant to fund home and community-based alternatives for people with mental retardation now living in institutional settings (Money Follows the Person). For further information about this grant see the IME website.
Frequently Asked Questions About Iowa
Partnership for Community Integration - August 8, 2007
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The Iowa Medicaid Enterprise
has announced that friends and some family members can now be hired as caregivers
under Iowa's Consumer Choice Option, a Medicaid program that will go into effect statewide by September 2007.
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Implementing
Olmstead in Iowa
What has Iowa
accomplished in response to the Supreme Court's Olmstead
Decision, handed down in 1999. Visit these overviews
to learn about Iowa's progress :
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ID Action
- The Governor’s Developmental Disabilities Council has launched
Iowans with Disabilities in Action (ID Action),
a non-partisan organization through
which Iowans with disabilities can have a stronger voice in Iowa
politics.
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