A group of nonprofits that has filed a court challenge to the Trump administration’s freezing of grant funds filed a declaration in court Sunday that tells the story of how it has affected a small center in West Virginia that helps people with disabilities.
The five-employee center for 40 years has helped people with disabilities “to live in their own homes, instead of having to be placed in far more expensive and far more isolating institutional settings,” according to the declaration from the president of the center’s board filed in the case.
Seventy percent of their funding comes through the Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Community Living, as part of the nationwide network of “Centers for Independent Living,” according to the declaration.
