The Direct Care Workforce Crisis: Jeopardizing Individuals’ Access to Community Disability Services

As Congress turns its attention after the midterms to end-of-year spending, ANCOR’s attention continues to be focused on ensuring that funding to strengthen the direct support workforce is included in any end-of-year spending package passed by Congress. The long-standing direct support workforce crisis is only getting worse, as illustrated by the latest data from ANCOR’s nationwide survey of community providers of intellectual and developmental disability (I/DD) services. There is no better time than now to urge lawmakers in Congress to take bold, decisive, bipartisan action to uphold the rights of people with I/DD.

Join us for a virtual congressional briefing to analyze the latest data from ANCOR and better understand our current and upcoming opportunities for action.

Congressional Co-Sponsors

This briefing is sponsored in conjunction with the following members of Congress:

• Senator Bob Casey (D-PA)
• Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
• Representative Debbie Dingell (D-MI)
• Representative Brett Guthrie (R-KY)

Presenters

• Erica Smith Buchanan, Executive Director, CADENCE of Acadiana (Louisiana)
• Yadira Holmes, Director of Government Relations, Consumer Direct Care Network (Florida)
• Nic Sunchild, Direct Support Professional, Consumer Direct Care Network (Montana)
• Lydia Dawson, Director of Policy, Regulatory and Legal Analysis, ANCOR
• Elise Aguilar, Director of Federal Relations, ANCOR
• Shannon McCracken, Vice President of Government Relations, ANCOR (moderator)