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Mental Health Rehabilitation
Mental Health Rehabilitation Is Becoming Workforce Policy: Why the Future of Employment Depends on Psychological Well-Being For much of the twentieth century, mental health policy and workforce policy existed in separate worlds. Mental health systems focused on treatment, stabilization, and symptom reduction. Workforce systems focused on labor participation, job placement,…
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The Rehabilitation State at a Crossroads: Medicaid Work Requirements and the Future of Vocational Rehabilitation
American disability policy is built on a contradiction. Publicly, it speaks the language of empowerment, independence, inclusion, and community participation. Administratively, however, it increasingly operates through surveillance, conditionality, digital monitoring, and bureaucratic control. Few modern policy developments expose this contradiction more clearly than the federal Medicaid work requirements scheduled to…
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SCII 2026 State Profile: Alabama
Category: SCII State Profiles Tags: Alabama, Disability Policy, Community Integration, Olmstead, HCBS, Disability Rights, SCII 2026, State Profile, Independent Living, HCBS Settings Rule, Wyatt v. Stickney, Mental Health, IDD Services, Policy Analysis Introduction Alabama ranks fourteenth in the 2026 State Community Integration Index, sharing the Tier 4 Critical designation with…
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SCII 2026 State Profile: Mississippi
Category: SCII State Profiles Tags: Mississippi, Disability Policy, Community Integration, Olmstead, HCBS, Disability Rights, SCII 2026, State Profile, Independent Living, Fifth Circuit, DOJ Settlement, Mental Health, IDD Services, Policy Analysis, Judicial Narrowing Introduction Mississippi ranks fifteenth and last in the 2026 State Community Integration Index pilot phase, with a score…
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SCII 2026 State Profile: Texas
Category: SCII State Profiles Tags: Texas, Disability Policy, Community Integration, Olmstead, HCBS, Disability Rights, SCII 2026, State Profile, Independent Living, State Supported Living Centers, HCBS Interest List, Mental Health, IDD Services, Policy Analysis Introduction Texas ranks thirteenth in the 2026 State Community Integration Index, sharing the Tier 4 Critical designation…
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SCII 2026 State Profile: Tennessee
Category: SCII State Profiles Tags: Tennessee, Disability Policy, Community Integration, Olmstead, HCBS, Disability Rights, SCII 2026, State Profile, Independent Living, DD Waitlist, Mental Health, IDD Services, Policy Analysis, Reentry Services Introduction Tennessee ranks twelfth in the 2026 State Community Integration Index, occupying a position that reflects one of the most…
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SCII 2026 State Profile: Illinois
Category: SCII State Profiles Tags: Illinois, Disability Policy, Community Integration, Olmstead, HCBS, Disability Rights, SCII 2026, State Profile, Independent Living, Williams Consent Decree, Choate Developmental Center, DOJ Investigation, Mental Health, IDD Services, Policy Analysis Introduction Illinois ranks tenth in the 2026 State Community Integration Index, the only state in the…
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SCII 2026 State Profile: Florida
Category: SCII State Profiles Tags: Florida, Disability Policy, Community Integration, Olmstead, HCBS, Disability Rights, SCII 2026, State Profile, Independent Living, iBudget Waiver, Baker Act, DD Waitlist, Mental Health, IDD Services, Policy Analysis Introduction Florida ranks eleventh in the 2026 State Community Integration Index, placing in the critical borderline range with…
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SCII 2026 State Profile: New York
Category: SCII State Profiles Tags: New York, Disability Policy, Community Integration, Olmstead, HCBS, Disability Rights, SCII 2026, State Profile, Independent Living, HALT Act, Solitary Confinement, Mental Health, IDD Services, Policy Analysis Introduction New York ranks ninth in the 2026 State Community Integration Index, occupying a position that captures one of…
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SCII 2026 State Profile: Georgia
Category: SCII State Profiles Tags: Georgia, Disability Policy, Community Integration, Olmstead, HCBS, Disability Rights, SCII 2026, State Profile, Independent Living, DOJ Settlement, Mental Health, IDD Services, Policy Analysis Introduction Georgia ranks eighth in the 2026 State Community Integration Index, representing one of the most consequential and instructive Olmstead implementation stories…