NCSA Support for Tennessee HB 2497 — Nonprofit Disability Housing Options (March 2024)
NCSA's March 2024 letter and testimony to the Tennessee House Committee on Health supporting HB 2497, arguing from years of national policy analysis that nonprofit residential communities for adults with disabilities increase community access and quality of life — and do not constitute segregation.
NCSA One-Pager: The Crisis of 'Empty Waivers' for the Profoundly Autistic — February 2024
NCSA's February 2024 one-pager documents the systemic failure of HCBS Medicaid waivers for individuals with severe autism — waivers that exist on paper but deliver no services because providers refuse to accept clients with complex behavioral needs.
NCSA Letter to Vice President Biden: Include Severe Autism in Your Disability Agenda — June 2020
NCSA wrote to the Biden campaign in June 2020 arguing that the campaign's disability policy platform as written excluded the urgent needs of individuals with severe forms of autism and intellectual disability — urging explicit inclusion on guardianship protections, residential options, and retention of the 14(c) employment program.