5/12/23: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE! National ADAPT Demands President Biden Keeps His Campaign Promises to the Disability Community

WHAT: Demonstration Exposing Broken Promises by the Biden Administration regarding Americans with Disabilities and their rights to community living.

WHO: National ADAPT

WHEN: Friday, May 12, 2023, 11am

WHERE: In front of White House, Washington D.C.

National ADAPT, a national grass-roots community that organizes disability rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action, including civil disobedience, to assure the civil and human rights of people with disabilities to live in freedom for over forty years.

National ADAPT DEMANDS that President Biden follow through on his campaign promises to address the needs of people with disabilities for services and supports to live in and prosper the community! National ADAPT is demanding to meet with President Biden to present him with a real list of what people with disabilities of all ages need:

1. End the Institutional Bias by fully funding Home and Community Based Services as a right equivalent to institutional placement

2. Invest and increase access to Affordable, Accessible, Integrated HOUSING

3. Cease federal funding of Guardianships. Fund the prevention and restoration of rights under wrongful Guardianships.

4. Medicaid and state funded Community Attendant Workforce’s / Direct Support

5. Professional’s wage to be paid based on the Consumer Price Index

6. Implement a 14 day timeframe for Medicaid/ Medicare Durable Medical Equipment maintenance, repairs, and immediate equivalent backup equipment.

President Biden met with ADAPT 20 years ago, in Wilmington DE., when we were marching from Philadelphia PA to Washington DC. We Voted, Marched, and Demonstrated, so that we could get legislation to keep people in the community and not in institutions! Here we are, 20 years later and we are STILL fighting for our RIGHT to live in the community,

National ADAPT urges President Biden to NOT LET US DOWN, NOW!

Meeting with us today, shows the world that he is following through on his promise and commitment to address the needs of People with disabilities for services and supports to live in and prosper the community! Free Our People!!!

Media Contact:

Name: Chris Murphy Phone:(507)340-3889

Name: Brandon Heinrich Phone: (631)834-7598

E-mail: adaptnational@gmail.com