Public Health

The Town of Littleton, NH has received a $270,000, three-year grant through the Real Choice Systems Change to develop and maintain an infrastructure for the removal of barriers preventing persons who are aging and others with disabilities from fully participating in community life. This document includes a description of the grant and a power point presentation that outlines details and challenges in the development of this Model Community.

This report details the results of Flordia's Legarcy 2002 project. Legacy 2002 brings together 30 indicators of sustainability — longterm health and vitality, in all sectors — for Greater Orlando and Orange County. The report provides a summary of the results of this year’s report, presented as “Ten Key Findings.”

This paper analyzes and answers the critical question: Does the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) apply to commercial and other private sector Web sites, and if so, what does it require. Much discussion of this question seems to be conducted without careful attention to the case law and other authorities that have already built-up around this question.

This community report card is a project of the Community Vision Assessment Team and is intended to provide local residents with data related to key citizen priorities. Additionally, this assessment attempts to offer a progress report relating to citizen action plans developed as a result of the countrywide community visioning process.

This article evaluates the potential for using negotiated risk contracts in consumer-directed home and community based long-term care.

This a guide for Services & Family Self-Sufficiency Coordinators and leaders working to strengthen their communities and create whole communities. A fascinating mix of vision, inspiration, how-to's, references and stories, especially targetted for people working with disadvantaged communities.

Sixteen Regional Office waiver review reports were reviewed to identify the areas most frequently cited using the HCBS Quality Framework categories as a guide. States included in the sample represented all regions of the country, as well as sparsely and densely populated states.