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Four Things You Can Do Locally This Summer to Keep up the Fight to Save Our Community Services and Service System
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Please read the following letter from Greg deGiere, Public Policy Director for The Arc & United Cerebral Palsy California Collaboration about the latest developments, and check out four things you can do locally over the Legislature's four-week summer recess to keep up the fight to save our community services and system.
Dear Friends,
The Legislature's four-week summer recess starts next week, and legislators will be home for at least part of that month. Our strength in the continuing fight to save our community services rests on the legislators' knowledge that their voters - that's you - are watching and demanding action.
So here are four things I'm asking you to do:
- If you didn't e-mail your legislators last week, do it this week. Click here to email.
We got a very good response last week, much better than in the few weeks before. But we didn't get as much response as earlier this year, and that risks giving them the idea that our community has given up. So please e-mail them now.
- Call your legislators' district offices near you this week and ask for appointment for you and some of your friends in our community to come talk to them while they are home during the break to ask them to co-author Senate Bill 2x-1 - if they aren't already co-authors.
Click here for their district office numbers and addresses. You may not be able to get an appointment, but the fact you are asking will get their attention, and you should at least be able to meet with a staffer.
- Also ask if they will be appearing at any townhalls or other community events during the recess so you and your friends can go talk to them there. Then get some people together to go.
- Check the Lanterman Coalition site later in the week and every week thereafter to find out where we are planning rallies around the state during the recess and in Sacramento after the recess. Then get yourself to them, or ask your service providers to drive you and others to them.
Things could happen fast as soon as the break is over. Or the legislators might even be called back to Sacramento for action during the recess. So, I know you're probably as fatigued by all this as I am, but please act now anyway.
Thank you for your advocacy.
Greg
Greg deGiere
Public Policy Director
The Arc & United Cerebral Palsy California Collaboration
1225 Eighth Street, Suite 350, Sacramento, CA 95814
916-552-6619, x.4
Greg@TheArcCA.org
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Will the special session help people with special needs?
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by Michelle K. Wolf
The current California developmental disabilities system, once a model system for the entire nation in
providing individualized, community-based care for children and adults with intellectual and developmental
disabilities, is starving for funds to keep programs going. Because Gov. Jerry Brown signed next year’s $115.4 billion budget without the needed funding, our last chance for help may be in the upcoming special session of the state Legislature, which will be focused exclusively on health care issues. Without an influx of new funds, many providers will have to shut down their programs and services, and lives will be endangered or even ended prematurely.
Right now, the lines on the charts are all heading in the wrong direction...
Read the entire opinion piece here
Michelle Wolf is a parent of a young adult served by Lanterman Regional Center and is a member of our Self-Determination committee. She also does consulting and is a blogger as well.
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Have you heard? You now have another great way to keep up to date with what's going on at Lanterman - our Facebook page. Like and follow our page to find out about the latest trainings, meetings, events and other information related to Lanterman and our community. It's also a great way to find out what's going on in the general news with regards to developmental disabilities.
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