ADAP Newletter Documents

ADAP News - April 22, 2016

• Who's eligible for Medicaid in Alabama and at what cost?  Quick answer:  22% of enrollees are disabled/blind and 51% are kids.  Per enrollee cost has remained very steady for the last 7 years at about $5800.  Learn more - check out the presentation done this week by Medicaid Commissioner Stephanie Azar for Alabama legislators.  Click here for presentation.
  

ADAP News - February 23, 2016

• Polling Site Survey Ready: Help ADAP Protect the Right to Vote
  

• Alabama Legislature - Regular Session 2016
  

• Treatment Discoveries Possible with Volunteers like You: The University of Alabama Intellectual Disabilities
  

• Words Matter: "The Mentally Ill" versus "People with Mental Illness"
  

• ADAP PAIMI Council Member Ben Arthur: Artist, Poet, Musician, and Author 
  

• Understanding Your Rights to Your Health Care Information under HIPAA

• Closed Captions to Be Available for Airline Passengers on In-Flight Entertainment Systems
  

ADAP News - January 19, 2016

• State Legislature Grappling Again with Budget Shortfalls
  

• Protecting Basic Medical Services to Incarcerated Persons with Disabilities
  

• New Federal School Law and its Impact on Students with Disabilites: Opportunity Coming for Parent Input
  

• ADAP's Advisory Council Contact Information
  

ADAP in the News

• 6/3/16 Partial settlement for disabled inmates suit approved with caveats
  

• 4/17/16 Prison construction bill creates complexities for federal case
  

• 3/19/2016 Judge holds off on approving prison suit partial settlement

• 3/18/2016 Settlement reached to improve ADA compliance in Alabama prisons
  

• 3/18/2016 Partial settlement reached prison suit
  

• 3/16/2016 Alabama prisons to improve treatment of inmates with disabilities
  

• 3/16/2016 Alabama agrees to improve conditions for inmates with disabilities following SPLC lawsuit
  

• 3/14/2016 Another stabbing, disturbance at Holman prison; lockup remains on lockdown after weekend riot
  

• 3/13/2016 A Global Digital Media Network
  

• 3/13/2016 Atmore inmates riot; two officials stabbed
  

• 3/12/2016 Inmates stab Warden and post to Facebook during riot at Alabama's Death Row Prison
  

• 3/12/2016 Alabama prison riot - Warden, guard stabbed in uprising at Holman Correctional Facility

• 2/15/2016 I Hear That Train A 'Comin

• 2/12/2016 Can Alabama's Medicaid reform save money and lives?
  

• 2/11/2016 A lawsuit between the Department of Justice and a company known as the Gateway Group has finally Huge Lawsuit Over Apartment Development Settles

• 1/26/2016 Changes coming to 'sheltered' programs for workers with intellectual disabilities
  

• 1/6/2016 Judge Approves Shift Away From Sheltered Workshops