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Introducing an Interactive Dashboard to Learn More About People with Disabilities
The Community Living Equity Center (CLEC) was thrilled to launch our new data dashboard that examines who needs and receives Long Term Services and Supports (LTSS) across the United States. While research has been conducted on how disabled people of color access, use, experience, and are affected by education, healthcare, employment, and criminal legal systems, little has been done to understand racial and ethnic disparities in community living. This new dashboard presents data on the percentage and demographic characteristics of racial and ethnic minorities with LTSS needs and their utilization of Medicaid HCBS and institutional LTSS by racial and ethnic categories, as well as other indicators of disparities in community living equity. The disability community has historically faced barriers to accessing information and timely, credible data vital for local communities and individuals to advocate for data-driven responses for equity in policymaking. The dissemination of data through the Community Living Equity Data Dashboard will enable disability advocates from the local levels to advocate for shifts in policies and services to advance community living equity. Jen and Laurin demonstrate how to use this data dashboard and discuss the data. The webinar emphasizes how this data dashboard can be used by advocates in the disability community and other stakeholders.
Recording Coming Soon
Fire Through Dry Grass
Community Living Equity Center hosted a free screening of the vital documentary Fire Through Dry Grass on January 10, 2024 and an interactive panel discussion with the film's Reality Poets along with CLEC lived-experience experts one week later.
Recording of the discussion now available
In the film Fire Through Dry Grass, Black and Brown disabled artists document their lives on lockdown during COVID, using their poetry and art to underscore the danger and imprisonment they felt. In the face of institutional neglect, they refused to be abused, confined, or erased.
An interactive panel took place one week after the film screening. It shed light on the intersectional experiences of disabled persons of color in institutional settings as well as raised awareness of the impacts of structural racism, systemic poverty, and incarceration. The campaign hopes to engage diverse stakeholders, including nursing home residents, advocates, and policymakers on community-living policy reform. Tools related to resident rights were shared with event attendees. Thank you to those who joined us for this two-part screening and interactive panel discussion.
Panelists:
Francene BenjaminAlHassan "El" Abdulfattaah
Shannon Nelson
Tyree Brown Theresa Williams
Moderator: Timotheus “T.J.” Gordon Jr.
Looking at HCBS From a State Level
Home- and Community-Based Services (HCBS) are essential for individuals with disabilities to live and participate in their homes and community. However, little is known about how HCBS impacts disabled people of color. The Community Living Equity Center was thrilled to feature three states and organizations that are beginning to examine equity within their HCBS systems. Attendees heard from our CLEC stakeholders—New Disabled South, Colorado Department of Healthcare Financing and Policy, and the University of Minnesota—about how each of them got started on identifying HCBS inequities within their state, which data sources were used, and what themes have emerged from their work.
Access the recording of LOOKING AT HCBS EQUITY AT A STATE LEVEL
Panelists:
Kiana Jackson
Liana Major
Tasia Sinn
Tetyana Shippee
Disability Identity and Pride in Equity Research
The Community Living Equity Center's first ever webinar, Disability Identity and Pride in Equity Research, centered the voices of members of the CLEC Community Advisory Committee. The webinar included a brief introduction of the Community Living Equity Center mission and guiding princindy Arias, and Germán Parodi
Moderators: Teresa Nguyen and Jennnifer Lee-Rambharose
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