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ADAPT Action in the Lobby of MHA.
These 6,500 Tennesseans are being held in nursing homes yet they are not provided their rightful opportunity to receive the services they need in their own homes. The Americans with Disabilities Act, ADA, provides that people with disabilities are afforded equal Civil Rights and this means the end of segregated services. This idea was even upheld in 1999 by the US Supreme Court in the Olmstead decision.
ADAPT has presented a proposal, "Access Across America", to Secretary of HUD Alphonso Jackson at a meeting in 2006. This would help coordinate the timing of the receipt of a housing voucher with the time a person is about to receive home and community based services and transition to the community. When ADAPT of Tennessee invaded the lobby of MHA the main demand was for Robert Lipscomb, the Executive Director of MHA, to write a letter of support for "Access Across America" and fax it to Secretary Alphonso Jackson of HUD.