News and Alerts

CPR and its partners, the Disability Rights Center of Kansas, AARP Foundation, and the law firm Shook, Hardy & Bacon, have reached an agreement with the State of Kansas to expand mental health services and provide more community residential options for individuals living in, or at risk of being admitted to, Nursing Facilities for Mental Health (NFMHs).

In a 2-1 decision, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a 2020 FDA rule banning the use devices that deliver electric shocks to individuals with self-injurious and aggressive behaviors. he devices at issue, also known as Graduated Electronic Decelerators (GEDs), are manufactured and used in only one program – the Judge Rotenberg Center based in Canton, Massachusetts. 

The Sixth Circuit of Appeals has upheld a Settlement Agreement in this class action brought on behalf of thousands of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities who expressed an interest in moving from Intermediate Care Facilities (ICF) to integrated community programs.

On June 19, 2021, Judge Richard Stearns issued an opinion in our longstanding children’s mental health case, Rosie D. v. Baker, finding the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in compliance with the court’s 2007 remedial order

Statement from CPR along with other disability justice and supported decision-making advocates, as Britney Spears' testimony shined a national spotlight on the problems of guardianship systems and the damaging and potentially devastating impact they can have on people’s lives.

Today, The Center for Public Representation along with partners worked in close collaboration with the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announce the approval of revised crisis standards of care.

With financial support from Massachusetts Healthy Decisions, CPR has compiled information to assist Massachusetts residents with disabilities and their allies in locating and requesting reasonable accommodations within the Commonwealth’s vaccination program.

We joined the nation’s collective sigh of relief when the Hennepin County jury in Minnesota found a veteran Minneapolis police officer guilty of the murder of George Perry Floyd. Finally, a police officer was convicted of taking a Black life.

On March 30, 2021, CPR joined Disability Rights Nebraska, the Arc, the National Federation for the Blind, and a coalition of Nebraska stakeholder organizations in filing a supplemental complaint with the federal Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights concerning TestNebraska, the State’s COVID-19 testing program.

With generous support from Massachusetts Health Decisions, CPR has produced an informational resource on COVID-19 vaccine safety and access.  This plain language Q&A responds directly to questions posed by a diverse group of individuals with disabilities and family members during six listening sessions hosted by CPR in the winter of 2021.