{"id":252195,"date":"2010-01-30T10:47:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T15:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8310d24970b"},"modified":"2010-01-30T11:20:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T16:20:37","slug":"state-plans-to-close-lanterman-center-for-disabled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/252195","title":{"rendered":"State plans to close Lanterman center for disabled"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">\n<p>The Schwarzenegger administration plans to close one of California&#8217;s<br \/>\nlast large institutional care centers for people with profound<br \/>\ndevelopmental disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The 82-year old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-lanterman6mar06%2C0%2C674998.story\">Lanterman Developmental Center<\/a><br \/>\nin Pomona, which houses 398 people with severe autism, cerebral palsy<br \/>\nand other lifelong disabilities, could shut its doors within two years,<br \/>\nsaid Terri Delgadillo, director of the state Department of<br \/>\nDevelopmental Services.<\/p>\n<p>The population of the 302-acre campus<br \/>\nhas dwindled from a peak of nearly 3,000 in the late 1960s, when a<br \/>\nchange in state law discouraged housing the developmentally disabled in<br \/>\nlarge institutions. Since then the trend has been for the state to<br \/>\noffer home-based services or to place people in group homes in their<br \/>\nown communities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-lanterman30-2010jan30,0,7187125.story\">Read the full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Jack Dolan<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Schwarzenegger administration plans to close one of California&#8217;s last large institutional care centers for people with profound developmental disabilities. The 82-year old Lanterman Developmental Center in Pomona, which houses 398 people with severe autism, cerebral palsy and other lifelong disabilities, could shut its doors within two years, said Terri Delgadillo, director of the state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}