CPR advocates for federal and state policies to ensure all people with disabilities have the opportunity to live, work and fully participate in their communities.
Working with its partners in the Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities (CCD), CPR developed comments on HHS’ revised Section 504 regulations to prevent discrimination against people with disabilities by recipients of federal funding.
CPR is a critical resource for advocates and state agencies regarding implementation of the Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Settings Rules. In January 2014, the federal government issued rules that for the first time define what is required for a setting to be considered community-based. CPR is leading a coalition of national disability organizations working to ensure implementation of the HCBS settings rules achieve systems change so that people with disabilities can live, work, receive services, and fully engage in community life. Learn more about the HCBS settings rules, the HCBS Advocacy Coalition, and states’ progress on transition plans.
CPR was proud to support the reintroduction of the Disability Integration Act (DIA) in the U.S. House and Senate with our disability and aging advocacy colleagues on January 15, 2019. The DIA is a bipartisan proposal to ensure the full integration of people with disabilities in the community.
The Money Follows the Person (MFP) program has helped over 88,000 seniors and people with disabilities move out of institutional settings and into the community. CPR continues to work with advocates in the disability and aging communities to extend these critical programs.
CPR also engages in advocacy to ensure that people with disabilities not only have opportunities for integration in where they live, but also where they spend their days. Opportunities for competitive integrated employment – working in community jobs alongside co-workers without disabilities and receiving real pay – are essential to the independence and integration of people with disabilities. Learn more about the CPR’s policy work around employment.
People with disabilities can live, work, and fully participate in their communities with access to needed supports. Medicaid is the primary source of community services for people with disabilities. CPR engages in policy to protect Medicaid’s community-based services and advocate for additional funding and incentives for home and community-based services.
CPR has a long history of advocating for children and youth with mental health conditions and their families. CPR has supported policy initiatives across the country to enhance home and community-based service systems for these children, and litigated to secure access to medically necessary, intensive home-based services, using federal Medicaid provisions known as Early, Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT).
