Posts Tagged ‘BHDDH’
Shared living opens new doors to people with disabilities – G. Wayne Miller, Ocean State Stories
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Read MoreDevelopmental Disability News: RI will miss 2024 deadline in 9-yr-old consent decree – Gina Macris
Rhode Island will get more time to comply with a nine-year-old consent decree intended to help adults with developmental disabilities lead meaningful lives, a federal judge said Aug. 1. Despite major progress, the state will miss the original deadline at the end of June next year. The new deadline has not yet been set. After…
Read More$20/hr start for direct care workers for adults with developmental disabilities – Gina Macris
By Gina Macris, Developmental Disabilities News, contributing writer The state agency overseeing Rhode Island’s services for adults with developmental disabilities is asking for a $20 minimum hourly wage for direct care workers, effective July 1. The hike was ordered by a federal judge in 2021 to go into effect by 2024, causing consternation in the…
Read More$8.1 million unused in RI Developmental Disabilities jobs program – Gina Macris
by Gina Macris, Developmental Disabilities News, contributing to RINewsToday Lack Of DD Jobs Program Adds To BHDDH Woes A total of nearly $8.1 million dedicated to employment supports for adults with developmental disabilities remains unused because the Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities, and Hospitals (BHDDH) hasn’t yet decided on a program for spending the…
Read MoreReforming Rhode Island government’s human services safety net – Richard Asinof
by Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI, contributing writer The last televised debate between the Democratic candidates running for Governor in 2022 will occur on Tuesday, Sept. 6, a week before the primary election. But the odds are pretty good that there will be no questions – or answers – about the release of the report by the…
Read MoreBusiness Beat: Customized employment for people with disabilities
Seven Hills Rhode Island, based in Woonsocket, has implemented and improved upon a unique system of job placement for members of the Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities community here in Rhode Island. With funding from a Person-Centered Supported Employment Performance Program (PCSEPP) 3.0 grant from The Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals (BHDDH), they’ve…
Read MoreRI’s Olmstead Consent Decree Coordinator steps down – 6th in 8 years to do so
By Gina Macris, Developmental Disability News Aryana Huskey, Rhode Island’s latest statewide coordinator for implementing the 2014 Olmstead consent decree, has stepped down after 14 months to accept a job with the Healthcare Workforce Management Initiative run by the state’s Executive Office of Health and Human Services. She is the sixth person in eight years to…
Read MoreUnsteady start for RI’s Opioid Settlement Advisory Council – Richard Asinof
RI’s Opioid Settlement Advisory Council off to an unsteady start, by Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI.
Read MoreRI avoids contempt charge with plan for adults with developmental disabilities – a lot of work ahead – Gina Macris
by Gina Macris, Developmental Disabilities News The Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court welcomed Rhode Island’s action plan to turn around the lives of adults with developmental disabilities, saying in a hearing Oct. 20 that the state has taken “historic and comprehensive” measures to set it on a path to comply with a 2014…
Read MoreRI BHDDH seeks $18/hr for “DD” workers and 10% of state’s unspent Rescue money – Gina Macris
By Gina Macris, Developmental Disabilities News, contributing writer Rhode Island’s developmental disabilities agency seeks to raise the pay of direct care workers to $18 an hour beginning July 1, 2022, a 14 percent hike over the current hourly rate of $15.75. The raise would be covered by a $44.5 million increase in federal-state Medicaid funding…
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