Tag - DDD funding in Arizona 7 posts

Scooting Through More Than A Month’s Worth Of Topics…

My fasting blood sugar on August 9th, 2025. All we see here in these posts is just a part of my life, just like that is just a part of my face from November 8th. All photos/screenshots by Ariana. I noticed that I stopped having blood sugar crashes a few weeks after I got COVID

Parents As Paid Providers Actually Getting The Job Done, Another Open Letter To Governor Hobbs and the Arizona State Legislature

Me, 26 days after my cervical corpectomy this January, and me this morning. The scar has healed so nicely, you can barely tell I had this surgery by looking at me. Reading my writing though? Lol, that is an entirely different story… I spent months not writing here and we’re already back for my second

Saved ALTCS Roughly $67,000 And Counting In Diapers? An Open Letter To Governor Hobbs and the Arizona State Legislature

This evening as I was eating my dinner, I received a text from my sister asking if I’d seen the e-mail yet from DDD. I quickly scanned it, and saw that Governor Hobbs is calling for AHCCCS to go through emergency rule making to reevaluate the new assessment tool and provide a process for those

Arizona Legislators: Are You Pro-Life?

Many legislators in our state proudly tout their pro-life support. This week, as letters were being read about the lives of disabled community members during a legislative session, some of our legislators walked out without listening, ultimately blocking a bill from being passed that would have resolved budget shortfalls to disability services in this state.

Mismanagement Probably Not: A Second Open Letter Regarding Arizona DDD/ALTCS Funding Shortages

To our Arizona State Legislature and Governor Hobbs: I have read that some in our legislature have blamed the governor for mismanagement of DDD funds. And to Representative David Livingston and all of the other esteemed members of our state’s appropriations committee, I would like to propose considering that another explanation is quite possible to

Habilitation Needs To Be In Waiver To Meet Member Needs: An Open Letter To Arizona AHCCCS Administration

My name is Ariana T and my son, Anthony (Tony) has multiple qualifying DDD diagnoses. He has complex behavioral and therapeutic needs, but has demonstrated progress through his therapies that have allowed him to gain skills he otherwise would not have had, thus reducing the cost of providing future services to him.  For the past

Dear Governor Hobbs and Arizona State Legislators: Can We (Maybe) Talk About The Budget?

I read about it on ABC 15. I read about it on FOX 10. Governor Hobbs vetoed the proposed budget. So, cool. I’m not hear to discuss any one party’s views about it. To me, what it means is that while many of our state legislators and our newly elected governor don’t agree on what

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