Let’s hold Gov. Rell to her word!
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Stand up for the developmentally disabled! Privatizing group homes can have disastrous consequences. Don’t let Governor Rell go back on her word. |
The staff at group homes for the developmentally disabled become like family to vulnerable clients — and breaking up these families can have disastrous effects.
You wouldn’t know it listening to her today, but as recently as 2007, Governor Rell agreed to a moratorium on the privatization of group homes. Back then, she understood it.
Take action: tell your state legislators that privatizing group homes puts the most vulnerable at serious risk.
Two years ago Governor Rell said:
“The group home has been exactly that - a home - for these clients for many years. Many of the clients and their families report great progress in their current environment. Uprooting them at this stage of their lives and putting their families through a transition to other services would represent an unacceptable disruption.”
Governor M. Jodi Rell, November 13, 2007.
Now she’s changing her tune. Gov. Rell says she wants the power to order Connecticut’s developmental services agency to wrench those clients from their group home families.
Today the Senate and House are holding a special session to consider implementer bills to put the recently passed state budget to work. It includes a provision that would continue the moratorium on privatizing these group homes and preserve vital services for children and adults with mental health issues, developmental disabilities, and who are drug or alcohol dependent.
Click here to send your message now.
Thank you for all you do to stand up for quality public services Connecticut families count on.
Bill Meyerson
Campaign Coordinator
InThisTogetherCT.org
P.S. Watch video of mental health and addiction service workers and parents of their clients asking the Governor’s spokesperson to explain her reversal. Click here.
