Washinton Stimulus Information

Click HERE for The American Recovery & Reinvestment Act: Washington State Program Summary.

Update from The Arc of Washington

Thank you for passing SB 5117-Children's Intensive In-home Behavior Supports Thank you for SB 5117 (Intensive In-home Behavior Supports) Take Action! Thank you's needed for SB 5117 Thank you for your advocacy in contacting legislators and asking them to move the Children's Intensive In-home Behavior Supports bill to the floor for a vote. It just passed the House unanimously. Please email your Representatves as well as Speaker Frank Chopp and tell them thank you for passing this important legislation.

"The Impact"

TVW’s show “The Impact” is taking email questions from citizens for a show they will air next week. They will pose selected questions to legislators. Here’s the link to the TVW page for their show The Impact:
http://www.tvw.org/search/theimpact.cfm?eventtype=1&CFID=3225045&CFTOKEN=23787234&bhcp=1

(SEE QUESTION SUGGESTIONS BELOW)

Find out how the issues of the day – the state budget, health care, education, the environment, transportation, and more – impact citizens and communities throughout Washington. Host Jennifer Huntley interviews and profiles the policy experts who make the decisions in Olympia and the people who are impacted back home.

The Impact airs: Wednesdays at 7 & 10pm Sundays at 5 & 9pm

The Impact is sponsored with generous support from Comcast and the Pacific Northwest Regional Council of Carpenters.

SEND EMAILS TODAY ASKING:

WHY DID THE HOUSE BUDGET CUT $80 MILLION FROM COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES (WHERE THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WANT TO LIVE) AND ONLY CLOSES TWO SWIMMING POOLS IN STATE DD INSTITUTIONS?

WHY ARE THE CUTS IN DD COMMUNITY SERVICES AND STATE DD INSTITUTIONS NOT EQUITABLE?

WHY DID THEY NOT CLOSE AT LEAST ONE OF THE FIVE DD INSTITUTIONS AS THE GOVERNOR AND THE SENATE DID?

ADD OTHER BUDGET QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.

Diana Stadden

Arc of Washington State

Policy and Advocacy Coordinator

Cell (Call-Text-Email): 253.576.6351

Email: Diana@arcwa.org