Mississippi's Protection & Advocacy agency for individuals with disabilities.
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20 Nov 2024
We'd love to see you under sunnier skies!
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Disability Rights Mississippi retweeted
14 May 2025
The organization’s leaders said they can see the available funds in the online portal and are resuming taking new cases.
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Disability Rights Mississippi retweeted
13 May 2025
1 May 2025
#MentalHealthAwareness #MyMentalHealth #LabAnimalScience #CompassionFatigue #SupportEachOther #NAMI #ResearchCommunity #ImprovingLife
🔗 Learn more or find support at nami.org.
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Disability Rights Mississippi retweeted
7 May 2025
About $4.1 million of the federal funding that was cut was for Mississippi’s community mental health centers, organizations across the state that run services including the addiction treatment program Evans attended.
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Disability Rights Mississippi retweeted
1 May 2025
Disability Rights Mississippi pauses new cases due to funding delay wjtv.com/news/state/disabili…
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1 May 2025
With deep regret, we must inform you that we will temporarily stop accepting new cases as of May 1, 2025. Due to delays in the release of our current-year funding from federal sources, DRMS must make difficult decisions to ensure we can continue serving our existing clients.
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1 May 2025
If this decision causes you concern, we invite you to contact your member of Congress or state legislator. Many of you have contacted our Mississippi delegation in support of our work as we fight for next year’s funding as well; we are appreciative of your support.
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1 May 2025
Thank you for allowing us to serve you. We will provide updates as soon as we have further information on our current year and 2026 funding.
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17 Apr 2025
Today seems like a great time to remind everyone that people on the autism spectrum are brilliant, vibrant, loving, and productive members of their communities and our society. They play baseball, write poems, date and get married, work, and, yes, even pay taxes.
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17 Apr 2025
Just because someone with autism doesn't experience the world in a "typical" way does not mean they don't belong in it. It simply means we need to work harder to include them and allow them to thrive in their own way; rhetoric that indicates otherwise is reductive and harmful.
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17 Apr 2025
This Autism Awareness Month, we invite you to share a joyful or proud moment that you have experienced as a person with autism or as a loved one of a person with autism. Comment below!
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Disability Rights Mississippi retweeted
7 Apr 2025
Work requirements create unnecessary bureaucratic hurdles and stress for people with disabilities and causes gaps in coverage. Red tape shouldn’t stand between people and their healthcare. Work requirements = delays and denials. #HandsoffMedicaid
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Disability Rights Mississippi retweeted
1 Apr 2025
On Testimonial Tuesday, from Maria.
“My son has Autism Spectrum Disorder, a language delay, Hypotonia, and a genetic condition called Ehlers Danlos Syndrome that requires special testing, medical equipment, therapies, schooling, and other community supports that bill Medicaid."
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Disability Rights Mississippi retweeted
18 Mar 2025
Sarah, a school mental health therapist, shares: '90% of my students are on Medicaid. In past roles, all my clients needed Medicaid to access care.'
Medicaid matters—contact your representatives today! secure.everyaction.com/tZYmQ…
#FacesOfMedicaid #ProtectMedicaid"
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Disability Rights Mississippi retweeted
21 Feb 2025
The number of unregulated personal care homes started growing in the 1980s after state mental hospitals were forced to discharge thousands of patients into the community. But 40 years and several policy changes later, state law allows many to continue operating under the radar, sometimes housing residents in dire conditions.
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Disability Rights Mississippi retweeted
16 Jan 2025
Disability Rights Mississippi wants to see serious change | Click on the image to read the full story wapt.com/article/disability-…
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Holding unlicensed personal care homes accountable, Disability Rights Mississippi calls for new legislation wlox.com/2025/01/17/holding-…
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