Excerpt from: CJ Online (click for full article)
Leonard Williams is worried that reform touted by Gov. Sam Brownback might change state-financed job coaching services that helped his developmentally disabled daughter remain employed for nine years.
He joined more than 1,000 people at a rally Wednesday outside the Capitol to urge the 2013 Legislature and Brownback to leave nonmedical services — job training, transportation, nutrition, social skills — outside the managed care system operated by three health insurance companies since January.
"These companies don't have experience dealing with these services," Williams said at the event sponsored by InterHab, a Topeka organization. "Without that service of a job coach, she wouldn't be working in the community."
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