Opinion: California’s developmental disability system is failing the communities it is meant to serve
Compared to white populations, people of color are more likely to receive no services at all. When they do get treatment, expenditures are lower, even when controlling for need and other factors. At our Commission’s hearings, parents and others said those inequities remain.
In recent years, California has invested $66 million dollars to address these problems. It’s a good start, but we must do more. We must also address and reduce ethnic and racial inequalities in treatment and access to services. To do so would mean creating standard categories to measure racial and ethnic demographics among clients receiving services, tracking and monitoring disparities using existing data, and requiring regional centers to consistently report on additional metrics such as denial of services.
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