Racial and ethnic gaps in spending on services for California children and teens with developmental disabilities persist, a new report has found.
The report, released Wednesday by the legal advocacy group Public Counsel, found that at most of the California regional centers, which assist developmentally disabled people across the state, spending inequities had worsened for Latino youth during the last budget year. Even as that gap narrowed statewide, it was widening at many individual centers.
Disability rights advocates have complained that the system too often forces parents to fight for assistance. Regional centers “are putting up barrier after barrier for people to be able to access services that they have a legal right to,” said Judy Mark, board president of Disability Voices United, which advocates for people with developmental disabilities and their families.
Westling said she was thrilled to see greater parity for Black youth. Regional centers have been trying to help families better navigate a complex system of services, she said, highlighting one initiative that provided for lower caseloads for workers who assist families who speak languages other than English and had gotten few services purchased for them.Research in U.S. veterans provides fresh evidence that long COVID-19 can happen even after breakthrough infections following vaccination.
Westling, the head of the regional center association, cautioned that families who do not get services purchased by their regional centers may still be accessing them through other resources that their case manager is helping them find. Just because dollars are not being expended by the center “doesn’t mean in any way that services are not being provided,” she said.
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