What I repeatedly see is a policy that allows extreme profiting from disability and inequitable delivery and utilization of Home and Community Based Services. There is a genocide being covered up in America. People with disabilities are being murdered in group homes. Case in point, private group homes owned by KKR are under investigation currently….
End the institutional bias in Attendant pay rates. I’m presenting a case for equity in Personal Care Attendants’ pay rates by sending this email*, The low pay of Consumer Directed (CD) in-home Personal Care Attendants has caused my husband not to return to work and is one of the factors of why I resigned from…
My name is Kendra Scalia and I’m a Hudson Valley Leader with the NY Caring Majority, and a disabled woman using Consumer-Directed Personal Assistance (CDPA) home care services. Last year at this time I submitted testimony to this Legislature regarding the home care crisis our state continues to ignore. I told you about my experience…
I have been using Consumer Directed (CD) Personal Care Attendant services for over two decades. I’m writing this letter about the lack of equity between CD in home pay rates and group home pay rates. Consumer Directed Personal Care Attendant services were already broken COVID19 has exacerbated systems such as CD Personal Care Attendant services…
As America moves towards pandemic recovery it is essential now more than ever that we make massive investments in expanding access to Home-Community Based Services (HCBS) for kids and adults with autism and other developmental disabilities regardless of IQ, or at risk of institutionalization. Our service system must be reformed into a pro-active system that…
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