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Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Families Suffer While NC Makes Them Wait Years for Assistance for Their Disabled Kids




Unfortunately, this is a struggle that many families are going through across the country...

Laura Branan used to call twice a year to ask if her son had moved up on the waiting list.

Every year she got the same answer: “No, he hasn’t moved much.” The last thing they told her was he was in the top 5% of people waiting. She didn’t know what that meant.

After repeating this for a decade, she gave up on it. The answers weren’t changing.

Now in 2020, it’s been 16 years since she and her husband, Andrew, first applied for home and community based services like support staff and therapy for their son Joe.

To read more on this story, click here: Families Suffer While NC Makes Them Wait Years for Assistance for Their Disabled Kids



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