Legislative and Advocacy Information
Letters and Resources from RCPA and Coalitions:
- RCPA Seeks Revision to Ensure IBHS Parity: Letter to Kristen Houser at OMHSAS
- Joint Member Letter from ANCOR and RCPA
- RCPA Letter to ODP Deputy Secretary Ahrens Regarding Additional Retainer Payments
- RCPA Letter to Governor Wolf: Phase 1A COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution for Human Services Professionals and Those They Serve
- RCPA Letter to DCED Secretary Regarding Hazard Pay Grant Program Awards
- RCPA President & CEO Richard S. Edley, PhD, along with PAR President & CEO Mark Davis, released the following Op-Ed: Covid-19 funding needed for intellectual and developmental disability community
- Advocacy Regarding Retainer Payments for HCBS (letter from Senator Casey and other US Senators)
- RCPA Telehealth Member Survey Results June 9, 2020
- FY 2021 IRF PPS Proposed Rule Comment Letter
- RCPA Letter: Response to Crisis
- ID/A Funding Letter to Governor Wolf – May 11, 2020
- COVID-19 Crisis in Funding: The Immediate Need for Enhanced IDD Rates
- Pennsylvania’s Philanthropic and Nonprofit Community Request Modifications to the CARES Act
- Secretary Levine ID/A Community Letter
- RCPA Letter to Governor Wolf Declaring Providers are Essential Health Care Providers
- Join RCPA/DASPOP Letter to Governor Wolf Requesting Assistance with PPE and Funding
Other Resources and Information:
- RCPA Comments on Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg
- Huge budget cuts could hurt people with mental illness, disabilities most, Pa. providers fear from – RCPA President/CEO Richard Edley quoted
- Report: HR 268 Joint State Government Commission | Behavioral Health Needs and Behavioral Health Care System Capacity on Hospital Emergency Rooms & Patient Health