LGBT History Month Celebrates LGBT Icons From 2022
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October is Down Syndrome Awareness Month
National Disability Employment Awareness Month 2022 — “Disability: Part of the Equity Equation”
September 19 Marks National Rehabilitation Awareness Week
Silent Auction — Request for Support
SAMHSA Recognizes September as National Recovery Month
Direct Support Professional (DSP) Recognition Week September 11–17, 2022
Governor Tom Wolf has signed an official proclamation dedicating the week of September 11 through September 17, 2022, as Direct Support Professional (DSP) Recognition Week. The proclamation, available to read here, recognizes the vital contributions DSPs provide to address the physical and mental health of individuals with disabilities as well as veterans and senior citizens. Furthermore, the Governor recognizes the immense care it takes for DSPs to develop close, respectful, and trusted relationships with those they support.
Please share any of your celebration pictures of stories with Carol Ferenz!
Still looking for ideas? To support efforts to celebrate your DSPs, ANCOR has compiled a few resources to help you say “thanks” and raise awareness about the important role DSPs play in helping people with disabilities access their community. These resources include customizable social media posts, creative ideas for celebrating DSP Recognition Week, and a DSP Recognition Week Store. Access the toolkit, and please use #DSPRW2022 in your social media postings!
September is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Awareness Month
September is World Alzheimer’s Month — Join the International Campaign to Raise Awareness and Challenge the Stigma
Letter of Thanks to Senator Casey
RCPA, along with 285 disability service providers and associations representing disability service providers, signed onto a letter from ANCOR thanking Senator Casey for his advocacy on behalf of individuals with disabilities in the past year.
The letter states, “Thank you for your steadfast leadership in supporting the Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) program, which enables individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) to live full and independent lives in their communities.
Thank you for being a sponsor and champion of the Better Care Better Jobs Act, which would strengthen the HCBS program and address a decades-long direct care workforce crisis that has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and for shining a light on the importance of home-based services through a hearing in the Senate Aging Committee this past March.
We especially appreciate your relentless efforts to include the Better Care Better Jobs Act as part of the budget reconciliation bill. Although an investment in HCBS was not ultimately included in the Inflation Reduction Act, we know that time and again you pressed Senate leadership and your fellow colleagues to support people with I/DD through inclusion of HCBS funding.”
The full letter can be accessed here.
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