A registered nurse, Dina Lester left her job working for the state in part over concerns about its poor level of care (Anna Spoerre/Missouri Independent). This story was commissioned by the River City ...

CANTON ‒ Alive Now Services — a home personal care business for clients with developmental disabilties — is dead. In November, the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilties revoked Alive Now's ...

The inner rewards are rich for Rosalind Wakefield, who works as a direct support professional at Little City in Palatine, assisting people living with intellectual and developmental disabilities. But ...

44-year-old Antonio Boone says the help he received from the Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities forensic unit helped to make his journey through the court system easier - and ...

This story was commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund. After Ronald Scheer was found suffocated to death by the straps of his own wheelchair, an autopsy determined his cause of death was ...

OUR NEXT HELPER GIVES PEOPLE LIVING WITH DISABILITIES THE HELP THEY NEED TO LIVE INDEPENDENT, FULFILLED LIVES. SINCE I’VE BEEN HERE, I DIDN’T NEVER KNOW I COULD DO ALL THE THINGS I COULD ACCOMPLISH.

AUSTIN, Texas (KTRK) -- The State House Committee on Human Services will meet in Austin on Tuesday, where a coalition is pushing them to consider raising the pay rate of those who care for the ...

Parents of children with disabilities are concerned potential cuts in provider rates could lead to less access and longer wait times for services.Optum, the managed care company for United Health Care ...

A developmentally disabled man has been reported missing in the San Fernando Valley and family members are concerned since he has been without his medication since disappearing five days earlier.