Currently conducting an assessment of the Illinois Medicaid home and community based services waiver for individuals with developmental disabilities in accordance with a national study and best practices in other states across the nation; In progress.

Writing foundation grant proposals for three organizations related to creating opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities to become economically self-sufficient; In progress.

Conducted research on supervisory skills for workers in residential settings and established pre and post testing assessments for approximately three hundred employees within residential settings in North Carolina and Tennessee in liaison with Derrick Dufresne of Community Resource Alliance, St. Louis, Missouri. Final results in progress.

Conducted research and wrote a white paper on behalf of Robert Juliano, a Washington, D.C. lobbyist, on ways to protect workers pensions under defined benefit plans; Pending development.

Conducted research on behalf of the North Carolina Hospital Association on Mental Health Transformation nationally and within North Carolina; Pending recommendations related to over utilization of emergency departments and in-patient care.

Conducted research for a parent comparing Medicaid programs between Ohio and Tennessee for children with autism; Results used by employer for employee transfer costs; Employee was not transferred to Tennessee as Ohio’s program was demonstrated to have substantially greater benefits for the employee’s son.

Conducted an investigation on behalf of Director Kenneth Ritchey of the Ohio Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities into state rules for Medicaid rates for habilitative services and demonstrated that the rates were highly excessive and could lead to significant overpayment of providers and personnel bankrupting the system; Recommendations were accepted by Director Ritchey and modifications to the rates that were finally approved by the Ohio legislature.

Created “A Medicaid Plan of Action For Ohio’s MR/DD System: A Radical Shift in How We do Business Financially Rewarding to Counties in their Capability to Expand Services, Programs and Supports to Unserved Individuals with MR/DD”; Plan was developed with significant input and guidance from Robin Cooper of the National Association of State Directors for Developmental Disabilities Services of Alexandria, Virginia; Plan was accepted by elected and appointed officials; wrote two one hundred page amendments to state budgets; Implemented between 2001-2003 resulting in an increase of 10,000 individuals on Medicaid waivers and an increase in federal funding of $250 million.

Wrote and gained the enactment of supported living law in Ohio under H.B. 257 with Sponsorship of Senator Grace Drake; First codified supported living law in the U.S.; 15,000 adults with disabilities now are included in the community in traditional homes of their choosing with federal, state, and local support approximating $350 million.