What Caregivers Can Do to Preserve and Protect Services for People With Disabilities: With Guest Casey Doherty

There are threats to Medicaid among many other services, and today we talk about how to help preserve access to public services for disability related support needs that help both caregivers and people with disabilities. There are various approaches each individual can take to make an impact on public services. If we each do what we can, where we are with the resources we have, people with disabilities will receive the formal public support they need.

Casey Doherty is the policy analyst for the Disability Justice Initiative at American Progress. Prior to joining American Progress, Doherty served as a paralegal specialist at the Federal Trade Commission and as fellowship alumni liaison at Partners for Youth with Disabilities, where she facilitated a national fellowship program for young people with disabilities. Doherty holds bachelor’s degrees in government and American studies from Georgetown University and a master’s degree in disability studies from the City University of New York’s School of Professional Studies. She is a doctoral student studying special education and disability studies at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Casey's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseydoherty1/

The article Casey co-authored is here: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/how-the-disability-community-can-fight-back-in-2025/

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