Caregiver Funding
March 04, 2025 Tennessee legislators and members of Community Options met at the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville on Tuesday, March 4, 2025 to discuss the role that direct support…
January 29, 2025 Yesterday, Kathryn Valles-Wallace, Executive Director of Tucson, Shaun Crouse, Executive Director of Phoenix, and Michael Burnett, Regional Vice President of Arizona and Utah, visited the Arizona State…
August 09, 2024 | Post Gazette online Article This year’s budget negotiations resulted in significant — and long overdue — progress for Pennsylvanians with intellectual disabilities and autism (ID/A). While…
March 07, 2024 Today we visited our state capital Nashville, TN for Legislative Day on the Hill! We met with three Representatives from the Chattanooga area: Greg Vital, Greg Martin,…
October 19, 2023 | Online article northjersey.com The insightful report from Disability Rights New Jersey confirmed advocates’ suspicions that New Jersey sanctions placing individuals with disabilities into nursing homes against…
May 03, 2023 On Wednesday, May 03, 2023 Community Options Inc. was present in Harrisburg for an advocacy event for direct support professionals. We were advocating for Governor Shapiro’s budget…
June 28, 2022 | Press Release.pdf | observer-reporter.com online article | post-gazette.com online article Philadelphia, PA – Community Options, a leading national nonprofit supporting people with disabilities, announced approval of…
In a letter to the Biden administration, Community Options, Inc. CEO Robert Stack called for Medicaid reimbursement rates to be addressed before raising the federal minimum wage to $15. Raising…
HCBS funding is critical to improve wages for direct support professionals. We applaud Senator Bob Casey (recipient Community Options’ Betty Pendler Award in 2020) and the 30 other United States…
January 12, 2021 | elpasoheraldpost.com The consensus is hospital staff and the vulnerable must be first in line for the vaccine. Persons with disabilities have a 35% greater chance of…