ACTION ALERT - March 29, 2012 - call for full funding for Home Services in Illinois

Dear Access Living friends and allies:

This morning, Access Living consumer advocates and staff are on the way to Springfield! Thanks to Tom Wilson and Curtis Harris for organizing everyone. Our main focus today is educating legislators about the new home services/CIL/Community Reintegration Program bills as follows:

SB3913 (Forby): http://ilga.gov/legislation/97/SB/PDF/09700SB3913lv.pdf

HB6141 (Golar): http://ilga.gov/legislation/97/HB/PDF/09700HB6141lv.pdf

We are asking legislators to sign on support! Please contact your legislators and ask them to support these bills. Senators should sponsor SB3913 and reps should sponsor HB6141. They call for full funding for Home Services, flat funding for CILs, and twice the funding for the Community Reintegration Program because it is a long term investment (moves people into the community from nursing homes).

Wish us luck!

Amber Smock
Director of Advocacy
Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago
asmock@accessliving.org
(312) 640-2191 (VP)
www.accessliving.org