Disability rights advocates gather Feb. 26, 2025, at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix to urge Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs and Republican legislative leaders to remedy a funding shortfall in the state’s Division of Developmental Disabilities that could leave them suddenly without essential services. Photo by Caitlin Sievers | Arizona Mirror
Parents of Arizona children with developmental disabilities who were scrambling to deal with massive service cuts finally got some good news today, when the state paused the implementation of those cuts.
Leading up to and following Oct. 1, when Arizona’s Medicaid program began using those new rules to assess the hours of service those children qualify for, desperate parents who had little notice of the drastic nature of the changes begged the state to amend the rules. Some said the changes would leave them in fear of homelessness and their children at risk of being institutionalized…