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	<title>Center for Disability Rights : Free Our People</title>
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		<title>Meet Dave, A new voice in advocacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Dave Atias, Assistant Director of Advocacy
Hello!  I’m Dave Atias.  I’m the new Assistant Director of Advocacy at CDR.  I was hired in late July.  Before I tell you a little about myself I would like to describe my start at CDR.  My first week on the job entailed a trip to Washington DC for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Real Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Chris Hilderbrant, Chief Operating Officer
The real story behind the muck-raking article that appeared in the D&#38;C on Sunday August 29, 2010, began about six months ago.  At that time, County Executive Maggie Brooks or someone in her administration decided to use the county’s payrolled investigators to try to dig up dirt on the Center [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maggie Brooks&#8217; left and right hands haven&#8217;t met and other newsbits&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Chris Hilderbrant, Chief Operating Officer
While Maggie Brooks has been busy alleging that CDR is the target of Medicaid Fraud investigations by the Attorney General, her own Probations department, which was part of the investigation, has issued a letter to CDR announcing the conviction of two attendants and indicating that CDR was the “victim” of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peace Out!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Stephanie Woodward, Transportation Advocate
August 13, 2010 will be my last day working as the Transportation Advocate at the Center for Disability Rights. I will be moving to Syracuse on August 15th to attend the Syracuse University College of Law. In particular, I will be studying Disability Law. Although I will miss the Center for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transportation in the Happiest Place on Earth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Stephanie Woodward, Transportation Advocate

To celebrate my recent college graduation my boyfriend surprised me with a trip to Walt Disney World. Having never been to Disney World before, I was ecstatic! When I arrived at Disney I was presented with a large pin that said “I’m Celebrating My College Graduation!” I wore this pin with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monroe County’s Cancellation of CDR’s Contact is an Assault on a Hard Won Victory of the Disability Rights Movement to Establish the Right to Control Our Services and Our Lives.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Diane Coleman, Director of Advocacy
I first became involved in advocacy for consumer directed services in 1982 in Los Angeles.  Like many people with significant disabilities, I wanted to limit medical control and intrusion into my personal life.  Nurses and social workers can really  mess up your love life, and other freedoms most people take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Accommodations Built Before the ADA Must Make Readily Achievable Access Improvements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kyle Glozier
The twentieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is July 26, 2010.  But even 20 years after passage of our landmark civil rights law, some businesses and building owners still say that “we are ‘grandfathered in’ so we don’t have to do anything to make our buildings accessible.”  They are mistaken.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cdrnys.org/wordpress/?p=525</link>
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		<title>Testing Accommodations and Pre-Employment Exams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Sara Furguson
How has the ADA equalized employment prospects for those with varying levels of disability?
The Americans with Disabilities Act has brought epic change to the rights of people with disabilities in achieving testing accommodations. While it is common to hear of testing accommodations in education and standardized testing, the ability to have accommodations for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cdrnys.org/wordpress/?p=520</link>
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		<title>Partnering with the LGBT Community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Anita Cameron, Systems Advocate
Recently, the Center for Disability Rights embarked on a new initiative – reaching out to, and partnering with our local LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered) community.
Rochester has a large and vibrant LGBT community, a significant number of whom are people with disabilities. In the effort to make CDR a more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cdrnys.org/wordpress/?p=516</link>
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		<title>Understanding the FMAP Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Lara Kassel, Coordinator, Medicaid Matters New York
If you’ve been following discussion or listening to the news on the state of the state budget lately, you’ve probably been hearing the acronym “FMAP” a lot.  FMAP stands for Federal Medical Assistance Percentage, which is the rate that determines the amount of federal Medicaid money each state [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cdrnys.org/wordpress/?p=513</link>
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