Western PA ADAPT

Defending Our Freedom – Equal Education for All!

PA ADAPT members gathered at the administration offices of the New Castle Area School District (NCASD) today to demand that the district immediately begin taking the steps required to insure that all programs and schools in the NCASD are accessible to all students. Under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, public schools must [...]

The Community Choice Act and the Community First Choice Option

Representative Glenn Thompson Signs On PA ADAPT attended a meeting with US Representative Glenn Thompson at his DC office in early September to ask him to sign on to the Community Choice Act (CCA). Representative Thompson was one of two Pennsylvania Legislators who had not signed onto the bill (HR 1670). Representative Thompson promised to [...]

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LOCAL PA ADAPT ACTION – Robbins Continues to Use the Disabled Community as a Political Pawn

PA ADAPT members from Western Pennsylvania visited State Senator Bob Robbins’ office in Greenville, PA on September 30, 2009 to ask him to right the wrongs he’s done to the disabled community by supporting budget cuts which will force more disabled people out of their homes and into nursing homes. During a visit to Senator [...]

LOCAL PA ADAPT ACTION – PA ADAPT Is Teed Off

PA ADAPT activists traveled to State Senator Jake Corman’s fundraising golf tournament at Toftrees Resort in State College, PA on September 17, 2009. PA ADAPT found it unacceptable that Senator Corman was holding a campaign fundraising event when Pennsylvania did not have a budget. Senator Corman, Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and member of [...]

LOCAL PA ADAPT ACTION – Fighting for the Community Choice Act in DC

PA ADAPT members from Western Pennsylvania visited Washington DC on September 8 and 9, 2009 to speak with the US Senate’s “Gang of 6″ and other Senators on the Finance Committee to let them know that any health care reform package is incomplete if it does not include elements of the Community Choice Act (CCA). [...]

LOCAL PA ADAPT ACTION – Ignore Them and They’ll Go Away

PA ADAPT members from Western Pennsylvania visited State Senator Joe Scarnati’s office in Warren, PA on September 1 and 2, 2009 to speak with him regarding the state budget impasse and to demand that any state budget fund people first. Senator Scarnati is the President Pro Tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate, our Lieutenant Governor and [...]

LOCAL ADAPT ACTION – ADAPT Members Visit Senator Jay Rockefeller’s Office

Members from ADAPT Chapters in Western Pennsylvania and advocates from West Virginia visited Senator Jay Rockefeller’s main district office in Charleston, WV on August 25, 2009 to demand real choice in health care reform. Senator Rockefeller is a member of the Senate Committee on Finance, and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Health Care. The Senator [...]

LOCAL ADAPT ACTION – Don’t Play Politics With Our Lives

Fifteen plus people with disabilities, many using wheelchairs and other mobility aids, from ADAPT Chapters in Western Pennsylvania gathered at Senator Elder Vogel’s New Castle, PA office today (August 14, 2009) to demand that any approved state budget must FUND PEOPLE FIRST. The ADAPT members demanded that any approved budget needs to at least maintain [...]

Senate Bill 850 Passes

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives voted 195-3 to pass Senate Bill 850 yesterday afternoon. As written, S.B. 850 would make deep cuts to key programs would force more disabled people out of their homes and into nursing homes. The $27 billion budget now goes to Governor Rendell, who is expected to line-item veto all but [...]