National Spending For MR/DD Services Exceeds $47 Billion In 1999: States Carry Primary Financial Burden For Services

OPEN MINDS, The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst Industry Statistics Spending on services for children and adults with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities (MR/DD) exceeds $47 billion annually. This level of spending encompasses federal, state, and local expenditures and covers a full range of settings for services, home, community, institutional, and educational. Of this total, spending on services for adults with MR/DD reached $25.4 billion, almost 65% of all expenditures on adult services. Community services spending for adults is still predominantly on group residential services, with less than 2% spent on individualized and family . . .