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Home Based Services
Consumer-directed HCBS
Consumer-directed (CD) care empowers people with disabilities to make decisions about the services they want and how they wish to receive them.

Home and Community Based Services
The Centers for Medicare
& Medicaid Services

Federal regulations
providing operating parameters
for the home and community-
based services waiver program

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Federal law
implementing the home and
community-based services waiver program
Clearinghouse
Community Living Exchange Collaborative
Steve Gold
The Disability Odyssey continues

"The Olmstead Decision"
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 98—536. Argued April 21, 1999–
Decided June 22, 1999

What is the
"The Olmstead Decision"
In 1999, the Supreme Court handed
down one of the most significant
decisions in the history of the
disability rights movement
Stuff to know about . . . The Olmstead Decision
The court ruled that the Americans with Disabilities Act may require states to provide community-based services rather than institutional placements for individuals with disabilities.
Olmstead Publications
Olmstead and New Freedom Initiative
Office for Civil Rights
Serving People with Disabilities in the Most Integrated Setting:

What the Court Decided
in Olmstead
by Stephen Gold
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