Podcast # 179: Paid Family Caregiving, Direct Support Professionals & Why Are There Waiting Lists for HCBS... w/Gary Blumenthal
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Episode Podcast # 179: Paid Family Caregiving, Direct Support Professionals & Why Are There Waiting Lists for HCBS... w/Gary Blumenthal
Gary Blumenthal is the brother of Steve Blumenthal, a senior adult with profound autism, and dementia, now receiving hospice services in his HCBS group home in Lawrence, KS. He is a former high school Civics teacher, former six-term member of the Kansas House of Representatives, and former disability official in the Clinton and Obama administrations, and is currently serving as a Senior Political Advisor for The National Alliance of Direct Support Professionals.
Timeline of the conversation:
1: 00 Backstory of Gary and Steve Blumenthal
3:25 Transition from institutional living of "3 hots and a cot" to home and community-based services (HCBS)
5:41 Civic engagement and voting
6:30 Education and communicating with Legislators.
8:50 Be educated and to educate
9:32 Paid Family Caregiving
12:00 Get out the Vote (GOTV)
15:38 Why do States have waiting lists for Home and Community Based Services (HCBS)
16:33 Funding Priorities and Policies to determine funding of services and advocates making their voice known in an environment of lobbyists and money in politics.
17:00 Advocacy and Activism
18: Call to Action: Get Out The Vote (#GOTV)
Please read Gary's recent opinion in the Kansas City Star: 60 years of disability progress helped my brother. I fear we’re reversing it
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