By JERRY WOLFFE
MORC Writer-in-Residence, Advocate-at-large
The Madison House Autism Foundation Website via The
DD News Blog reported on June 1, 2015 that “of the 3.775 million people with
intellectual and developmental disabilities, 77 percent of them do not receive
publicly funded residential supports."
"Of the 23 percent, or 1.127 million with I/DD who
do not receive publicly funded supports, 56 percent live with family and 44
percent do not live with family. Of the 44 percent who do not live with family,
27 percent of those live in their own home. The other 73 percent live in group
homes, foster homes, nursing facilities and less than 1,000 live in psychiatric
facilities.”
