Austin Jenkins
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This boy was institutionalized at age 12. Now he's moving out — half a century later
MaryAnn Brookhart remembers the day in 1964 when her parents dropped off her 12-year-old brother, Gregory Paul, at the Rainier School for the developmentally disabled in Buckley. She was 17 and had insisted on riding with them.
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Affirmative action campaign in WA sued for not paying signature gatherers
Last winter, Anthony Hill and his wife Anita came to Washington state from Michigan to gather voter signatures for I-1000, an initiative to the Legislature to restore affirmative action.
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Developmentally disabled patients stuck in WA psychiatric hospitals with nowhere to go
This January, Carolyn Guinotte took her son Alan to the emergency room because he was unable to go to the bathroom. Alan is 30 years old, autistic and mostly non-verbal. But when it was time for Alan to get out of the hospital, Guinotte and her husband said they couldn’t take him back. “It feels really horrible to say you can’t take your own son back home,” Guinotte said. “But if you can’t provide the care he needs, what’s the point?”
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Number of people who need disability services increases 10% per year
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Fred and other patients with developmental disabilities languish in local hospitals
In recent months, court commissioners on both sides of the Cascades have found the state of Washington in contempt, and even imposed fines, over access to state psychiatric care for people with severe developmental disabilities. The cases involve people who’ve been found to pose an imminent risk to themselves or others, but are languishing in local hospitals.
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Families, advocates sound alarm over patients stuck in the hospital without a medical need
Christopher Davis was lying on the floor watching cartoons one night last December while his mother, Beverly, decorated her Spokane home for Christmas. From time to time, she showed him a decoration. But Christopher, a 46-year-old developmentally disabled man, just pushed them away.
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Inslee says he’s running for governor again — day after leaving presidential race
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee will run for a third term, seeking to become only the second governor, and the first Democrat, in state history to serve three consecutive terms.
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Jay Inslee To Seek 3rd Term As Washington Governor
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced his bid for a third term as governor in an email to supporters, saying that while it was an honor to run for president, he wants to continue his work leading the state.
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Washington state cancels two more contracts with in-home care provider
The state of Washington is canceling two more contracts with a troubled provider of in-home care to people with developmental disabilities in Spokane...
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Troubles resurface for private in-home care provider after 'unusual and troubling' death
It’s been more than a year since the state Department of Social and Health Services took the unprecedented step of shutting down a major in-home care...