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Community Options Advocates for DSP Wages and Policy Reform at Tennessee State Capitol

March 12, 2025
Mercedes Owens (Community Options, Inc.), State Rep. Greg Vital (R-TN-29), Jesse Nash (Easterseals Tennessee), and Cathy Greland (Easterseals Tennessee) at the Tennessee State Capitol on March 4, 2025, advocating for increased DSP wages and improved reimbursement rates.

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…

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Advocating for Increased Support at the Arizona Capitol

January 29, 2025

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…

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Community Options visits the state capital in Nashville, TN

March 7, 2024
Meika McClendon, our Tennessee State Director, and Mercedes Owens, Executive Director in Chattanooga, engaged in a powerful conversation with State Representative Yusuf Hakeem to advocate better pay for Direct Support Professionals.

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,…

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Community Options was present in Harrisburg for an advocacy event for direct support professionals

May 3, 2023
Community Options Inc. executive directors, regional directors, and the state director for Pennsylvania gathered on the steps inside the Harrisburg capitol building following the press conference for the advocacy of increased wages for direct support professionals. Several representatives from the state of Pennsylvania, family members, and executives from agencies that employ direct care workers spoke at the press conference on the need of better wages and more qualified staff to support adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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…

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Community Options to Receive Workforce Training Grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services

July 5, 2022
observer-reporter.com

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…

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In a letter to the Biden administration, Robert Stack called for Medicaid reimbursement rates to be addressed before raising the federal minimum wage.

February 22, 2021

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…

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Community Options is proud to advocate to Federal and state policymakers to increase funding for home and community-based services (HCBS).

February 5, 2021

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…

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Caregivers for those with disabilities are Frontline workers, their pay should reflect that

January 12, 2021
elpasoheraldpost.com

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…

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To the editor:

August 17, 2020
njbiz.com

August 17, 2020 | njbiz.com Republicans and Democrats need to factor in the essential workers with children who cannot go to school. My staff and I manage over 5,000 essential…

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To the editor:

May 18, 2020
njbiz.com

May 18, 2020 | njbiz.com Crisis does not build character, it reveals it. Managing one of the largest state-funded nonprofits supporting persons with disabilities in New Jersey is more than…

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