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March 8, 2017 by CarolinaWeekly
RALEIGH – Upward to Financial Stability, an initiative funded by the North Carolina Council on Developmental Disabilities, will host four Train-The-Trainer programs across North Carolina in March. The National Disability Institute and The Collaborative will ...
ASHEVILLE – The N.C. Council on Developmental Disabilities (NCCDD) selected Asheville-based Vaya Health to lead a statewide effort to improve how healthcare providers and other organizations can help individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities (I/DD) successfully live in homes of their own.
RALEIGH – The North Carolina Department: of the State Treasurer has launched the nationwide NC ABLE (Achieving a Better Life Experience) program for qualifying people with disabilities.
People who were born with or acquired a disability before age 26 can save and invest without jeopardizing eligibility to ...
BY BRYAN DOOLEY, Guest columnist
In the mid-1800s, the famous social reformer Dorothea Dix described living conditions in one of our country's earliest asylums: "More than nine-thousand idiots, epileptics, and insane in these United States, destitute of appropriate care and protection. Bound with galling cha...