TAKE ACTION to protect Medicaid/DDD now!
Write to your state and federal elected officials and representatives.
Use this link for an example to start your own letter.
Or call state and federal elected officials and representatives.
Or use this link for a phone call script, include your own circumstances.
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Steps to Take Action:
1) Find Your Representatives and Senators- Click here to find yours.
https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member
2) Use link above to write your own letter.
3) Use the link above for a phone call script, include your circumstances.
Our elected officials need to hear how damaging Medicaid cut would be for the people we love and support!
Please CALL, WRITE, to all your elected officials.
If you need assistance in writing to or contacting your elected officials, please feel free to contact Karen or any Karing Associate.
The Boggs Center on Disability and Human Development has created a new resource guide, Sharing Your Story: A Guide to Medicaid Advocacy.
Medicaid provides funding for services that help millions of people with disabilities and their families across the country. This guide has information to help you share your lived experience with policymakers so they understand the importance of Medicaid and the services it provides to people with disabilities. In the guide, you will find information about how Medicaid works and commonly proposed threats, along with tips for sharing your story and a worksheet to help you plan your advocacy message.
Take Action
What can you do to make a difference?
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Direct Support Professionals
ABOUT THE COALITION FOR A DSP LIVING WAGE
The Coalition is comprised of families, community provider agencies, Direct Support Professionals and, most importantly, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). These members share a common belief that individuals with I/DD deserve to live rich and meaningful lives as fully integrated members of our communities. Toward that end, Direct Support Professionals (DSPs), who play a critical role in meeting this objective, must be paid a living wage
People First
Advocacy By and For People with Disabilities
People First is the major self-advocacy organization in the US currently in 29 states, self-advocates are part of a grassroots movement organized and maintained entirely by individuals with disabilities, and dedicated solely to advancing the rights of citizens with disabilities across the globe.
NJCDD is continuing to grow it’s People First network across the state developing new chapter and working to increase established chapters with new members. With the mission of growing advocacy efforts and adapting the philosophy of People First, in New Jersey.
Disability Rights NJ
New Jersey’s designated Protection and Advocacy agency under federal law. We advance the human, civil, and legal rights of people with disabilities and promote their self-determination, independence, productivity, and integration into all facets of community life.
Resources and Information
Need information?
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Boggs Center
The Boggs Center is New Jersey’s University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities and part of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Department of Pediatrics.
Since its inception in 1983, The Center has emphasized a community-based, lifespan approach to meeting the needs of individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. In 2016, The Boggs Center was designated as New Jersey’s Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (NJLEND) program.
DDD Ombudsman
Paul S. Aronsohn
The Office of the Ombudsman for Individuals with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities and Their Families was established to help make sure that they get the services and supports they need and deserve.
The legislation creating the Office outlines specific responsibilities, which can be grouped into 3 categories:
- Assisting individuals and families to navigate New Jersey’s system of care to get the services and supports they need and deserve;
- Working with individuals and families to identify opportunities for improving the system; and
- Helping to ensure that the voice of individuals and families is heard in a meaningful way in decisions that directly affect them as well as in larger policy discussions.
# 609-984-7764 Disability.Ombudsman@treas.nj.gov
ABLE Accounts
With NJ ABLE, you can save for qualified disability expenses without losing your eligibility for certain assistance programs, like SSI and Medicaid.
Information and Resources
The Arc of New Jersey Family Institute is dedicated to providing timely information, advocacy, support and training to family members of an individual with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It consolidates all of our outreach and support to families under one program and greatly expands upon the activities that we are currently providing to families. It is crafted with the knowledge and expertise of our past initiatives in mind, and strives to harness the growing enthusiasm of families currently engaged with The Arc.