Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities

The State Must Balance Caring for Tennesseans with Intellectual Disabilities and Responsibility to the Taxpayers

Wednesday, June 08, 2011 | 05:02 pm

NASHVILLE - The Tennessee Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (DIDD), which administers Tennessee’s Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) waiver programs serving 7,500 people with intellectual disabilities, faced some tough choices when the State faced a shortfall and all departments were asked to reduce their budgets for Fiscal Year 2011.