 Since then, Breslin has successfully pushed for changes in policy and standards at the state and federal level.She has worked with selected Medicaid managed care organizations to develop model disability policies in California, and in Washington her research was vital for the inclusion of accessibility requirements in the 2010 Affordable Care Act.Mary Lou Breslin received the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Award from the University of California, San Francisco in 2015 which acknowledged DREDF’s advocacy on behalf of people with developmental disabilities.