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New Freedom Initiative - Disability
Most Integrated Setting - The Olmstead Decision

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New Freedom Initiative Activities


  • HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson Urges States to Continue to Expand Home and Community Based Care for Disabled Residents, Supports "Funding Follows the Person" Model - August 12, 2002 http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2002pres/20020812.html

  • July 22, 2003 - The President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health Delivers Final Report to White House http://www.samhsa.gov/news/cl_mhfinalreport.html


  • "Delivering on the Promise: OCR's Compliance Activities Promote Community Integration," summarizing the satisfactory resolution of more than 100 "most integrated setting" complaints filed with OCR by individuals with disabilities. OCR is producing this document in accord with HHS' commitment to broadly disseminate individual accounts of how civil rights activities have facilitated the community integration of people with disabilities http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/complianceactiv.html


  • The Department of health and Human Services New Freedom Initiative Page http://www.hhs.gov/newfreedom/init.html On March 25, 2002 HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson presented to President Bush reports from nine federal agencies entitled "Delivering on the Promise: Compilation of Individual Federal Agency Reports of Actions to Eliminate Barriers and Promote Community Integration". The reports, published on the HHS website www.hhs.gov/newfreedom, outline more than 400 specific solutions agencies can implement to support community living for the nearly 54 million Americans living with disabilities. The reports stem from the first comprehensive federal review of barriers preventing people with disabilities from living in their communities instead of in institutions which was undertaken in response to President Bush's Executive Order on Community-based Alternatives for People with Disabilities and the President's New Freedom Initiative. This page also includes the Preliminary report, submitted on December 21, 2001.


Recent HHS Grants and Activities to Promote Community Integration


Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Olmstead Initiatives


Links to States with Olmstead web site information


Reference Information


OLMSTEAD v. L. C. (98-536) - Supreme Court Decision

Transcript of OCR's July 16, 2001 Olmstead Housing Technical Assistance Call

Last revised: September 8, 2004

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