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DRM Serves on Mental Health Working Group

by Kevin Voyvodich | Jun 18, 2020 | Community Mental Health

In 2019 DRM was appointed a member of the legislatively-mandated Mental Health Working group. I had the pleasure to be the appointed member from DRM on that group. In the first legislative session of 2019 Senator Cathy Breen presented a bill in the Maine Legislature...

Leave as a Reasonable Accommodation under the Maine Human Rights Act

by Guest Author | Dec 22, 2019 | Employment

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Maine Human Rights Act (MHRA) are comprehensive anti-discrimination statutes that prohibit discrimination against individuals with disabilities in private employment, state and local government employment, public...

Pulling Back the Curtain: Maine Children in Residential Placements

by Guest Author | Dec 4, 2019 | Children's & Education Rights

In July, Katrina Ringrose and I traveled to Fordyce, Arkansas, to visit a residential mental health treatment program where three Maine youth were living. In my three years at DRM, I have visited youth with disabilities in out-of-home placements across the state of...

DRM Death Investigation Leads to Recommendations for Increased State Oversight of Maine’s Progressive Treatment Program

by Kevin Voyvodich | Sep 10, 2019 | Community Mental Health, Inpatient Psychiatric Settings & Group Homes

Disability Rights Maine (DRM) was contacted by the mother and legal guardian of John Doe[1], a 40 year old man who had been found unresponsive in his apartment and was later declared dead. The mother stated that her son was an individual with mental illness and was...

DRM Opposes DHHS Proposal for 1115 Waiver

by Mark Joyce | Mar 18, 2019 | Children's & Education Rights, Community Mental Health

Medicaid is a health insurance program that is funded jointly by states and the federal government. In Maine this program is known as MaineCare. This insurance provides health coverage to over 200,000 Mainers, including eligible low-income adults, children, pregnant...

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DRM Serves on Mental Health Working Group

Leave as a Reasonable Accommodation under the Maine Human Rights Act

Pulling Back the Curtain: Maine Children in Residential Placements

DRM Death Investigation Leads to Recommendations for Increased State Oversight of Maine’s Progressive Treatment Program

DRM Opposes DHHS Proposal for 1115 Waiver

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