OMAHA- Gov. Jim Pillen said Monday that, by July, his administration expects to accomplish a goal it announced a year ago: elimination of a long-running “wait list” for Nebraskans seeking services for intellectual and developmental disabilities. Last March, the list contained about 2,700 people, and a projected wait for available funds stretched for up to eight years. The governor said the number has been whittled to about 700.

“This is the first time in the last 35 years that this wait list is going to be eliminated,” Steve Corsi, chief executive officer of the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, said at a press conference in Omaha that also closed Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month. Pillen, Corsi, and Tony Green, director of the DHHS Division of Developmental Disabilities, updated progress on cutting the wait, the public cost, and what they’ve described as the state’s reimagining of how services are offered to Nebraskans with developmental disabilities to make things work better.

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