National Advocacy Campaign

WE the undersigned, urge our Governor and Legislators to constructively address the issue of direct care staff recruitment and retention.

SO THAT our state's most vulnerable citizens with mental health and mental retardation disabilities, and needing community supports and care will receive reliable, high quality services.

WE ASCRIBE to the following principles and urge that these principles guide legislative, regulatory and fiscal decisions as program resources are allocated for future fiscal years.

WE FIRMLY BELIEVE that assuring high quality community-based services requires the involvement and commitment of all stakeholders: consumers, clients, families, providers, advocates, government entities and communities.

WE FIRMLY BELIEVE that high quality community-based services can only be assured if consumers, families, providers and counties can recruit and retain qualified staff.

WE FIRMLY BELIEVE that the recruitment and retention of qualified staff is jeopardized without adequate state and federal funding, applied to local solutions.

THEREFORE, we, the members of the ANCOR National Advocacy Campaign, commit our energy and resources to working collaboratively toward solutions which will ensure a living wage to assist in the recruitment and retention of quality, professional staff.

Direct Support Professionals make a difference!
Shouldn't they also make a living?

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Signers on this petition have submitted their names to ANCOR via hard copy or online. If you feel that your name is on this list in error please send your first and last name (as they appear in the database) as well as your city state to verify that they are indeed you and not someone that happens to share your name, to cdunkelberger@ancor.org. Your request will be acknowledged and your file will be removed within 48 hours.

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