MissiSSIPPI Olmstead COMPLAINT -- PRAYER FOR Relief

We're going to be working on what is it that we would be asking the COURT to DECLARE for purposes of a DECLARATORY JUDGMENT.

We're going to be starting with our "CONCLUSION" which we're taking from the Prayers for Relief from actual Federal Olmstead Complaints filed by the United States Department of Justice seeking Declaratory Judgment among other things. 

MISSISSIPPI
(see  Examples of Olmstead Complaints with a Request for Declaratory Judgment)

​"Issue a declaratory judgment that Defendant has violated Title II of the ADA by failing to make reasonable modifications to services, programs, or activities for adults with mental illness to enable them to obtain the services, programs, and activities they require to reside in the most integrated setting appropriate to their needs"

COLORADO

We're TAILORINGLY this to address COLORADANS with physical and/or cognitive disabilities who are:

• INSTITUTIONALIZED or 
• AT RISK of INSTITUTIONALIZATION

Due to the STATE'S failure to make reasonable modifications to services, programs or activities, specifically failing to:

• bring SUPPORTIVE HOUSING to SCALE to meet the need; or
• have a COMPREHENSIVE, EFFECTIVELY WORKING PLAN to do so with ---
  • ​MEAURABLE GOALS 
  • REASONABLE TIME FRAMES, and
  • Sufficient Funding to address the UNMET NEED or SHORTAGES as the result of INADEQUATE FEDERAL, STATE or LOCAL FUNDING.​
    

We're couching this in terms of "SUPPORTIVE HOUSING" which includes both the Housing & the Supports.

AN ASIDE:  We are strong believers in HOUSING FIRST and the moral urgency of it ---- BUT ---Especially when it comes to NEURO-DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS and PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS --- a lot of the need is a result of needing to address EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING issues in MULTIPLE SPHERES OF LIFE in an ENVIRONMENT which individuals themselves and the community may be largely ignorant of the different needs of  NEURO-DIVERSE PEOPLE.Further, that UNCONSCIOUS HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT is putting UNHEALTHY PRESSURE and UNWITTING DISCRIMINATION on people who are quite vulnerable to PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS.And make REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS for those Executive Functioning issues ---

• but as the NEURODIVERGENT REBEL pointed out --- it's people (and service providers, friends and family working together ) to better DEFINE what they NEED in terms of specifics to address ACCOMMODATIONS / WORK AROUNDS for Executive Functioning Differences / Deficits.
• Right now the "BOUNDARIES" of NEURO-DIVERSE PEOPLE are running head long into the "BOUNDARIES"  of NEURO-TYPICAL PEOPLE (and for that matter other NEURO-DIVERSE PEOPLE) and we need to "CONSCIOUSLY" address that.

• ​The answer is NOT to put people who are NEURO-DIVERSE in a BUBBLE ---
• It's to develop those STRENGTHS which tend be SUBJECT MATTER or ARTISTIC STRENGTHS that serve as OUTLET for an enormous SENSORY PROCESSING LOAD. 


• ​Further, that IGNORANCE is leading to a quite UNCONSCIOUS HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT for people with Neuro-Developmental Disorders across a BLURRED SPECTRUM of AUTISM and ADHD.











• For many people with disabilities  --- it is not clear that HOUSING ALONE would prevent unnecessary institutionalization or the great risk of institutionalization inherent in homelessness.
• Further, the University of California at San Francisco Study found that HOUSING paired with VOLUNTARY SUPPORTS for even people experiencing some of the most significant impairment was successful.