ADAPT Action Reports

thumbnails are linked to higher resolution photos Boulder ADAPT members take a bus to the airport. Kurt Breslaw on the flight to WDC. Wing of an airplane. Randy Alexander. El Paso ADAPT arrives after midnight ready for action. ADAPT Check-in.

ADAPT Arrives in Washington DC.

ADAPT Action Report: Saturday, April 29, 2007.

By Tim Wheat

Stephanie Thomas organizes the rooms. On the heels of their success with Money Follows the person, ADAPT, the nations leading direct action disability rights organization, gathers in the capitol to follow-up the success with The Community Choice Act (S 799 and HR 1621). The institutional bias in the United States, which pays for expensive facilities over home and community services forces Americans into undesirable nursing homes and state facilities.

ADAPT is leading the long-term Medicaid reform that the country needs to end the institutional bias. The logical next step to the Money Follows the person legislation that passed last term is the Community Choice Act. Money Follows the Person allows states to redirect long-term care funding from institutions to alternatives in the community. This will allow many Americans to choose to live at home rather than an expensive institution.

The Community Choice Act is necessary to continue the trend away from institutions and get people with disabilities the services and supports to live at home. Choice is what every American expects, but far too often people with disabilities do not have the option of living at home, and can only get the long-term Medicaid services they need in a costly and intolerable facility. Do you want to live in a nursing home?

Lisa Randall. The ADAPT Action Report is organized to let you follow the ADAPT Action in Washington DC. This year the direct-action group will use video phones to upload video on YouTube.com. The idea is to show the hard-work and exciting in-your-face advocacy of ADAPT. There is nothing like the experience of an ADAPT Action, but if you cannot be in Washington, the ADAPT Action Report will try to capture some of the feel of being there.

The Action Reports are news of the day with photos of the ADAPT activists in action. The ADAPT Action Blog is so you may have first-hand accounts from people involved in the ADAPT Action. News releases are collected in the news section and there is a direct link to the photos by Tom Olin of the Action.