EQUITY e-newsletter: March 2006

Self-Directed Services & Asset Building: Choosing Your Own Path to Economic Self-Sufficiency

Self-Directed Services Meets Asset Building Opportunities: A Primer for the Future

Megan O'Neil, World Institute on Disability, provides a comparison of programs that allow individuals with disabilities to direct their own Medicaid services and ways to incorporate financial literacy and asset building to further increase their economic self-sufficiency.

Women and Company® Microenterprise Boost Program Provides Equity Awards for Women Entrepreneurs

The Abilities Fund is pleased to announce its selection as a Local Partner for the 2006 Women and Company® Microenterprise Boost Program.

Smart Start: Enhancing Access, Equity, and Opportunity for Youth with Disabilities

Tamara J. Amsbaugh, Employment Policy Group, describes how youth with disabilities are empowered by a program that supplies financial literacy, asset building, and the ability to control their futures.

It Takes a Team

Employing a team-centered approach, Morganne, the Gent family, Morganne's personal agent- Laurie Ertz, and Sarah Renner from Smart Start, Morganne has the opportunity to create her own destiny.

New Medicaid Home and Community-Based Programs Now Available

Steve Gold analyzes six provisions that disability advocates can take advantage of to increase home and community-based services and to reduce unnecessary institutional services.

EQUITY Responds: Answers to common questions received from either the Asset Building Community or the Disability Community

What is "Money Follows the Person"?