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EQUITY e-newsletter: September 2006
Up one levelLIFE Accounts: New Options for People with Disabilities to Build Assets
- LIFE Accounts - Where Home and Community-Based Supports Meet Asset Development
- Lee Bezanson, Director of the Community Living Exchange Collaborative Clearinghouse, provides insight into the initial stages of the Living with Independence, Freedom, and Equality (LIFE) Account Savings demonstrations being planned in Wisconsin and New Hampshire and the options being explored to assist people with disabilities combine self-directed services with asset building opportunities.
- 2006 Assets Learning Conference Update
- There is still time to register for the 2006 Assets Learning Conference-A Lifetime of Assets: Building Families, Communities & Economies, September 19-21 in Phoenix, AZ. Please visit www.assetsconference.org today!
- Wisconsin LIFE Accounts: Survey Results Connect Desire for Self-Directed Services & Building Assets
- Stuart Gilkison, Wisconsin Pathways to Independence, supplies survey results of the Wisconsin LIFE Account project, demonstrating the desires of people with disabilities to build savings for purchases that will increase their independence and productivity while also maintaining their vital health coverage and standard of living.
- Wisconsin LIFE Accounts: Survey Results Connect Desire for Self-Directed Services & Building Assets
- Prepared for the CMS New Freedom Initiative Annual Conference April, 2006 Tobey Davies Center for Community Economic Development & Disability School of Community Economic Development Southern New Hampshire University
- LIFE Account Options
- Definitions of some of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services waivers and demonstration programs that present opportunities for people with disabilities to build assets.
- EQUITY Responds: Answers to common questions received from either the Asset Building Community or the Disability Community
- As someone who works for an asset building program, how can we support efforts like LIFE Accounts, Cash & Counseling, and other Self-Directed services for people with disabilities?