Advocacy Toolkit for FY 2025/26 Budget Advocacy

The state is facing a $3 billion dollar deficit, and the Governor has included an additional $175 million for annualizing last year's rates and waiting list initiative. PAR and it's partners are asking for the legislature to support the following initiatives: 

  1. Supporting the inclusion of $175 million for the annualization of costs in the Community Waiver Program, as proposed in Governor Shapiro’s budget. This funding is essential to maintain services to individuals recently brought off the emergency waiting list. In addition, PAR is asking for $10 million for rates to support Early Intervention for children.
  2. Supporting Senate Bill 617, which ties future ID/A service rates to inflation and cost-of-living adjustments. Sustainable rates are necessary to ensure that wages for DSPs remain competitive and service delivery remains viable.
  3. Enacting policy changes that empower providers to deliver high-quality care more effectively. These include simplifying 

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Please use the materials below in your advocacy efforts, including our talking points and meeting etiquette guide.

Advocacy Tools:

 

     
25/26 Advocacy Infographic
Released April 2025
 

2025 Talking Points
Released April 2025

     
 
2025 Medicaid Infographic
Released April 2025
 

Draft Legislative Letter of Support
for Policy Changes
Released June 2025

     

 

Meeting Tips for Families
Released March 2024

  Meeting Tips for DSPs
Released March 2024
     
 
Meeting with My Legislator
Released February 2025
  2024 Pennsylvania Direct Support 
Professional & Frontline Supervisor
Compensation Study
Released June 4, 2024
     
 
The Collapse of ID/A Services in PA
Released March 2023
  Pennsylvania ODP-Administered HCBS 
Proposed Rate Revisions Impact Analysis

Released January 19, 2022
     
 

COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on the 
Pennsylvania ID/A Workforce Crisis

Released August 24, 2021
  ID/A Community System Capacity 
Erosion due to the Pandemic
 

Released June 17, 2021


 
   
Case and Mortality One Pager
Released June 17, 2021
  Fiscal Impact of COVID on ID/A 
Provider Solvency
Released June 17, 2021
   
   
About PAR One Pager
Use this to explain PAR’s mission, history, and why we advocate