Urgent: We Must Act Now to Save the Disability and Aging Service System

There is a proposal circulating in Washington, DC to drastically cut funding for programs that protect the health, safety, and well-being of people with disabilities and older adults.

On the chopping block are the nation's Protection and Advocacy agencies, the Councils on Developmental Disabilities, the University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, Long-term Care Ombudsmen, and the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), among others who fight against abuse, neglect, financial exploitation, and waste in disability and aging services.

These funding cuts will increase abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation, while decreasing the ability of people with disabilities and the older adults to live in their community, be self-reliant, and return us to the days when people with disabilities and elderly people were seen as burdens rather than as beneficial to our society. 

For many people with disabilities and aging adults, these programs are the only thing they can turn to when they need help. They literally save lives.

Help us save these critical programs by emailing Congress using this form.