Welcome to the most comprehensive disability and employment technical assistance site on the Web. The National Consortium for Health Systems Development (NCHSD) is a technical assistance partnership providing flexible, state-tailored technical assistance for Medicaid Infrastructure Grant (MIG) projects across the country. These CMS-funded state projects are developing comprehensive health and workforce service systems for people with disabilities who want to work. Serving people with disabilities, providers, state agencies, research institutes, advocates and businesses, NCHSD is a project of Health & Disability Advocates (HDA).
Online Library
You can view these recent additions to the Library, or search our entire collection.
Connecticut's Connect-Ability Infrastructure Change Highlights: 2010
This fact sheet describes some of the infrastructure changes that occurred through Connecticut's Connect-Ability campaign in 2010.
April 2011 eNews
This month's issue has news about a multi-state MIG collaboration on web-based work incentives training, NCHSD's pre-conference meeting on health care reform, the TBTL campaign, an FCC survey of people with disabilities about emergency services, and new online resources to help states implement the Affordable Care Act.
Draft Agenda - NCHSD May 9 Pre-Conference Meeting
This is a draft agenda for NCHSD's pre-conference meeting on May 9, featuring keynote speaker Alan Weil of the National Academy for State Health Policy. The meeting will explore the challenges of implementing health care reform under the Affordable Care Act and its implications for working people with disabilities.
