States should resist bad old days of warehousing people with disabilities
<p>For three years, Stanley has lived in her own apartment on Chicago's South Side. She cooks her own meals, sees her family regularly and manages her bipolar disorder with the kind of stability that once felt impossible.
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<p>For three years, Stanley has lived in her own apartment on Chicago's South Side. She cooks her own meals, sees her family regularly and manages her bipolar disorder with the kind of stability that once felt impossible. Previously, her only option besides living on the street was a nursing home — a place she describes not as somewhere to heal, but somewhere to survive.</p><p>It was a place that didn't feel safe, and where Stanley, whose last name is being withheld to protect her privacy, felt like the residents and employees were working against her and her recovery.</p><p>Stanley’s path to recovery and independence was made possible by the little-known <a class="Link" href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/98-536.ZS.html" target="_blank" >Olmstead</a> integration mandate, born from a 1999 Supreme Court ruling that found unjustified institutionalization of people with disabilities is discrimination. Since that decision, this principle has pushed states to treat people in their communities, rather than hide them in institutions.</p><div class="RichTextSidebarModule Enhancement" data-module data-align-center><a class="AnchorLink" id="module-260000" name="module-260000"></a> <div class="RichTextSidebarModule-title">Commentary bug</div> <div class="RichTextModule-items RichTextBody"><h2>Commentary</h2></div> </div><p>As community mental health practitioners with more than 40 years of experience, we have witnessed how deinstitutionalization transformed care in Illinois and the lives of each individual given the opportunity to thrive and determine their own future.</p><p>It's why Thresholds — which provides community-based behavioral health and supportive housing across the Chicago area — has helped thousands of people move out of nursing homes and psychiatric facilities, and into successful, supportive living situations.</p><p>Jan Wrightsell was the first person Thresholds helped move.
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States should resist bad old days of warehousing people with disabilities
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