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From: Magenta Raine <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, May 03, 1999 8:52 PM
Subject: Re: FW: ADA Article



>if we can afford to bomb the serbs, we can surely afford to fund community
>based group homes and other solutions.  it's just a matter of Will.
>
>mag
>
My understanding is that community based group homes are more cost-effective
than institutional care.  In CA, the avg. cost to keep someone in a state
institution is
$ 525,00/yr.   I never have really understood why GA is doing this - except
that it requires rethinking, and that's beaurocratically painful?

Dianne