Advocacy & Action
Advocacy
Arc Connecticut advocacy programs support, promote, and protect the civil and human rights of people with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities in Connecticut and we work with The Arc of the United States to approach federal public policy with a values-based voice to affect system change.
Without strong advocacy at all levels, people with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities may not have access to needed support as well as opportunities to exercise inherent civil and human rights. Additionally, strong advocacy may be required to prevent and/or address abuse, neglect, and exploitation that people with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities may experience.
Please get in touch with Carol Scully, Director of Advocacy for more information on the workshop series: cscully@thearcct.org.
Action
The Arc has created an extremely efficient and effective way to make sure your voice is heard by key decision makers in the State. Once you sign up—and it’s easy!—you will not only be kept up to date on events as they happen, but be in a position to let our leaders, including your state representative and state senator, know your views. Click and you are on your way to having a voice in decisions that directly affect you and your family.
2025 Legislative Agenda
Increase funding by mending guardrails to:
Create a sufficient and sustainable workforce
Adequately fund the Birth to 3 program
Avoid budget recissions and lapses to DDS
Support modernization/innovation
Index funding for non-profits
Administrative changes:
Efficient, effective contracting with direct service providers
Improve DDS abuse & neglect investigations
Workforce pipeline
Improve DSS responsiveness to the public
Support partner/coalition efforts:
Supported decision making
Update Medicaid asset limits
Housing
Work incentive initiatives
Increased access to medical equipment
Oppose managed care in HUSKY program
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