app03 Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:23:36 +0000 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Registered - Episodes Tagged with “Intellectual Disabilities” https://registered.fireside.fm/tags/intellectual%20disabilities Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:00:00 -0500 Registered explores the people and places that make Allen County, Kansas a special place to live. The views from Allen County, produced by The Iola Register. en-us episodic A podcast exploring the people and places of Allen County, Kansas. Hosted by Tim Stauffer. Produced by The Iola Register. The Iola Register Registered explores the people and places that make Allen County, Kansas a special place to live. The views from Allen County, produced by The Iola Register. no The Iola Register, Kansas, Iola, Allen County, community, journalism, newspapers The Iola Register timstauffer@iolaregister.com Robin Lohman explains why Kansas’s new Community Supports Waiver is such a milestone https://registered.fireside.fm/robin-lohman 427cea27-e21d-41be-bc49-db9cdbcb3291 Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:00:00 -0500 The Iola Register full The Iola Register Last month, Gov. Laura Kelly announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services had approved Kansas’s new Community Supports Waiver. Here to explain it all is Robin Lohman. Lohman lives in Iola and is an Assistant I/DD Director with the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services. 24:16 no <p>Last month, Gov. Laura Kelly announced that the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services had approved Kansas’s new Community Supports Waiver. </p> <p>The waiver will expand home and community-based services to 500 Kansans for up to $20,000 per year. It's a major expansion of an effort to keep individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities with their families and integrated in their communities.</p> <p>Here to explain it all is Robin Lohman. Lohman lives in Iola and is an Assistant I/DD Director with the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services. </p> <p>In this week's episode, Lohman breaks down what the waiver is, how it works, and why it's so important. </p> KDADS, Kansas, community supports, home supports, waiver, I/DD, intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities, integration Last month, Gov. Laura Kelly announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services had approved Kansas’s new Community Supports Waiver.

The waiver will expand home and community-based services to 500 Kansans for up to $20,000 per year. It's a major expansion of an effort to keep individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities with their families and integrated in their communities.

Here to explain it all is Robin Lohman. Lohman lives in Iola and is an Assistant I/DD Director with the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services.

In this week's episode, Lohman breaks down what the waiver is, how it works, and why it's so important.

]]> Last month, Gov. Laura Kelly announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services had approved Kansas’s new Community Supports Waiver.

The waiver will expand home and community-based services to 500 Kansans for up to $20,000 per year. It's a major expansion of an effort to keep individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities with their families and integrated in their communities.

Here to explain it all is Robin Lohman. Lohman lives in Iola and is an Assistant I/DD Director with the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services.

In this week's episode, Lohman breaks down what the waiver is, how it works, and why it's so important.

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