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 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.
NCSA Letter Opposing Pennsylvania's Plan to Close State Developmental Centers — October 2019
NCSA's October 2019 letter to Governor Tom Wolf opposing the closure of Pennsylvania's Polk and White Haven Developmental Centers, arguing that closing residential facilities does not save money — it shifts costs onto aging parents, law enforcement, ERs, and nursing homes, and leaves the most behaviorally complex individuals with nowhere to go.