What Are Barriers to Gaining Employment? Individuals with Disabilities and Families, please join us for: Supported Employment Listening and Learning Session April 11, 2018 9:30-11 am Marcfirst, 1606 Hunt Dr… Read more »
US Legislative Alerts
Action Alert: EMPOWER Act
Action Alert! February 1 Call In Day! The EMPOWER Care Act Gets Individuals with Disabilities & Seniors Back Home S. 2227, the bipartisan EMPOWER Care Act introduced by Senators Portman (R-OH)… Read more »
Below we have a federal and state update and save the dates! FEDERAL UPDATE Tax Bill Update The Conference committee is working on merging the House and Senate tax cut… Read more »
Federal Update and Action Alert
Capitol Insider for the week of December 4, 2017 Action Alert Tax Bill Threatens Critical Programs – Act Now Major Events Ahead Budget & Appropriations/Tax Policy – House and… Read more »
Urgent Action Need on Tax Bill
From the Arc of the United States! Tax Bill Threatens Critical Programs – Act Now Congress is expected to vote this week on a tax bill that will place critical… Read more »
Division Pushed Back ISC Notice of Funding Opportunity to FY2020
We commend the Division on Developmental Disabilities and Director Fenton for clarifying a new timeline for the re-bidding (notice of funding opportunity- known as NOFO) of independent service coordination (ISC)… Read more »
Monthly Webinars
After each monthly webinar, a copy of the presentation as well as any additional resources will be posted here. Thank you! October 10th, 2017 – ABLE in Illinois: Five… Read more »
National Medicaid Call-In Day TODAY!
We are all exhausted, but take a sip of coffee, flex those fingers and pick up the phone, email, social media today with stories of support for Medicaid! Within the… Read more »
Medicaid Under Attack Again! Call Senators!
New Threats to Medicaid: Action Needed Call Our Senators Now! This summer, advocates like you worked hard to defeat a dangerous health care bill that would have included massive cuts… Read more »
Judge Rules State non-compliant in Ligas Consent Decree
I wanted to share briefly with you the great news that the Judge over seeing the Ligas Consent Decree has found the state out of compliance with the decree. Here… Read more »