Pennsylvania) at Service‚ Access & Management‚ Inc. (SAM‚ Inc.)‚ a private nonprofit agency providing intake‚ referral‚ case management‚ crisis intervention‚ and emergency services under contract to the Berks County Mental Health/Developmental Disabilities Program as well as Community Care Behavioral Health Services Organization. Kristy has worked as a case manager‚ case management supervisor‚ and director of utilization management. She is a member of the Berks County Coalition Against Human Trafficking
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of Directors of Social Services (1991) defined a vulnerable adult by the client group: the elderly and frail‚ those with a mental illness (including dementia)‚ those with a sensory‚ physical or learning disability‚ and those with severe physical disability. The current definition‚ in the Department of Health guidance “No secrets”‚ states that a vulnerable adult is “a person who is or may be in need of community care services by reason of mental or other disability‚ age or illness; and who may be
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The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act is also known as the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. The IDEA legislation "needed to assure that students with disabilities receive free appropriate public education (FAPE) and the related services and support the need to achieve" (Jeffords 1). IDEA was created to make sure that disabled children are receiving fair and equal education and support. This act has several parts to it which include providing grants‚ funds early intervention
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When one doesn’t know whether there will be food on the table or a roof over their head how can one be optimistic? This instance represents a widespread dilemma for Americans everywhere‚ and my family also has been engulfed by it. My father went from earning a six figure salary to being without a job. The recession has hit Americans all around this great nation including us. As President Obama was sworn into office families rejoiced that maybe this could be the change that America needed in order
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providing funds‚ the Public Law of 1969 known as the Children with Specific Learning Disabilities Act has recognized children with "learning disabilities" (Berger‚ 2008‚ p. 302) and enabled them to receive special education and other services such as physical therapy‚ speech‚ transportation‚ etc. In addition‚ by enforcing mandated education for all children‚ the Public Law has protected children with disabilities from being rejected or forced out of school as it used to happen before 1960 ’s (Berger
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The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act or Right to Education Act (RTE)‚ which was passed by the on 4 August 2009‚ describes the modalities of the importance of free and compulsory education for children between 6 and 14 in under Article 21A of the . India became one of 135 countries to make of every child when the act came into force on 1 April 2010. History Present Act has its history in the drafting of the Indian constitution at the time of Independence[5] but are more
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foundation of this country. Constitutionally: * The Civil Rights Act of 1866 redefined what it was to be a black in America. * The legislative changes allowed blacks to move from being the underlings in a country based on servitude‚ to at least on paper having some of the same opportunities as whites. * The federal government did not previously think it was their place to grant black suffrage. Socially: * Blacks in post-Civil
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1. Names and Definitions- -IDEA or Individuals with Disabilities Education Act is a four-part legislation that ensures students with a disability are provided with Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) that is tailored to their individual needs. -An IEP or Individualized Educational Plan/Program is a document that is developed for each school-aged child who is eligible for special education and related services‚ and describes the educational; program that has been designed to fit an individual
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“Congress enacted the Voting Rights Act in 1965 after many years of protests and increasingly violent acts against African Americans. The Act made it a federal crime to deny a citizen the right to vote. It outlawed a number of tricks and schemes used for decades to disenfranchise African Americans.” “From the 1860s to the 1960s‚ African Americans routinely were denied the right to vote. This occurred mainly in the south‚ in the former Confederate states. But elsewhere‚ other minorities also suffered
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Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a law passed that primarily gave African Americans the right to vote without having to take any sort of literacy tests. African Americans were widely ignored in voting rights because they were forced to take literacy tests to be eligible to vote. Having this event in our nation’s civil rights movement was a landmark that allowed the other half of our nation’s voice to be heard. “The Voting Rights Act itself has been called the single most effective piece of civil rights
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