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Home Entrances: Barriers to community participation start at home
September 13, 2021
Steps and staircases are a noted barrier to public spaces that limit equal opportunity to participate in community life. The ADA, and other civil rights laws, are designed to address these barriers. However, barriers in private residences are often not addressed by these laws....
Hurricane Ida and Storms: Range and Disability Impact
September 2, 2021
As Hurricane Ida recovery efforts continue, and storms and flooding caused by its initial landfall continue to strike the eastern U.S. (from Connecticut in the northeast to Florida and many states in-between), it's critical to recognize that people with disabilities are impacted...
New Brief from RTC:Rural and DisDATA: People with Disabilities Still at Risk in Congregate Care Settings
August 26, 2021
"People with Disabilities Still at Risk in Congregate Care Settings" summarizes CMS data at county and regional levels to inform community response to the recent increases in COVID-19 cases and deaths among nursing home residents, through August 8, 2021. The brief comes on the...
Technical Assistance Program supports Healthy Community Living Program Facilitators
August 19, 2021
Over the past six months, RTC:Rural has been working with staff from Centers for Independent Living (CILs) to build the Healthy Community Living Technical Assistance Program (TAP) in partnership with the Association of Programs for Rural Independent Living (APRIL). TAP is a peer...
Elevating Stakeholder Voices for Rural Outreach: A Presentation to the Rural Sociological Society
July 28, 2021
RTC:Rural’s Dr. Rayna Sage and graduate research assistant, Genna Mashinchi, presented on the Rural Community Living Development project to the Rural Sociological Society. Focusing on the participatory process used with Centers for Independent Living (CILs) with a goal of developing...
Health Status Changes with Transitory Disability Over Time: Andrew Myers Discusses 2020 Best Paper in NARRTC Webinar
July 15, 2021
On July 14 RTC:Rural’s Andrew Myers presented highlights from "Health status changes with transitory disability over time," winner of the 2020 NARRTC Best Paper Award in a webinar for NARRTC.
A major challenge with disability research that Myers shared is that even the starting point...
New Publication Describes Outcomes and Value of using Geographic Analysis to Assess CIL Service Delivery
July 7, 2021
A new paper, “Exploring Access to Independent Living Services for People with Disabilities Through a Transportation Network Analysis” published in The Journal of Disability Policy Studies, and co-authored by RTC:Rural researchers and a disability policy expert from the Association of...
