Your Voice Matters! Your voice is the one that your Virginia legislators listen to. Here’s how you can help:

• Sign and share this petition.  Now’s the time!  The General Assembly Session starts next week! Amplify your voice!  Your signature represents a desire to make necessary changes for your family and those like yours and to sustain your services permanently and safely.  It says you are concerned about the long-term risk to disability services associated with ignoring these issues.  

• Contact your legislators and tell them your story.  

1. Tell them how your family has remained safe and financially stable because you have been able to be the paid attendant for your spouse or minor child.  Ask them to make the Appendix K flexibility allowing parents and spouses to be paid caregivers a permanent change.
2. Tell them that you want Consumer Direct to remain a viable option which it is not at current rates.  Ask them to fully fund a rate increase for all Home and Community Based Services Providers, including Consumer-Directed Service Facilitation, which is not currently in the Governor’s Proposed Budget, but should be.
3. Tell them how your family has been able to safely use your services throughout the pandemic thanks to the Telehealth Delivery Method option. Tell them to keep your family safe, even after the pandemic.  Ask them to make the telehealth delivery method a permanent option for ALL Home and Community Based Service Providers, including Consumer-Directed Providers, like Service Facilitation.