Rep. Charlie Meier is fighting alongside the Dorsey Family as they try to keep their son from being moved to a state facility hundreds of miles from home. Gregory Dorsey is a 26-year-old with autism, anxiety and ADHD. Gregory has been moved multiple times from state agencies and currently resides at Murray Center. The Department of Human Services wants to move him to an SODC hundreds of miles away in Waukegan.
The family says that the Department of Human Services urged them to give up guardianship and control over medical decisions. The family wants Gregory to remain at Murray Center, not continue to be moved from facility to facility.
“We don’t feel like we should have to give up guardianship to get help for our son,” said Gregory Dorsey’s father, William.
“Repeatedly, for many years, I have gone to ask DHS for help and this is what we get, we get six court cases for this family and poor Greg to have to go through,” said Rep. Charlie Meier. “The agencies seem more focused on proving a point than actually helping the people under their supervision.”
“[Rep. Charlie Meier] has gone above and beyond,” said William Dorsey. “We wouldn’t be where we are today if it wasn’t for that man.”
This is another in a long list of families that Rep. Meier is trying to help. He has become a steadfast advocate for people with disabilities across Illinois.
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