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.

NATIONAL ADVOCACY Campaign Principles

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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