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Disability leaders call on the General Assembly to increase funding for home healthcare workers | Opinion
Disability Leaders Look to General Assembly with Optimism As leaders of intellectual disability and autism (ID/A) services, we have been raising our voices about the unsustainable staffing/direct support professional (DSP) crisis in our community.
Advocates push for more state funds for disability services and higher wages for workers
Advocates for people with disabilities are pushing for additional millions in the Commonwealth's budget in the next fiscal year to raise wages and shore up staffing for home and community-based services.
College programs for students with disabilities are growing in Western PA, but some have faced challenges
As their peers without disabilities graduate high school and embark on college journeys, students in these programs are able to follow a similar path.
Count The Trout At Wholey's: Raising Money For Achieva Of Pennsylvania
KDKATV Wholey's in the Strip District is raising money and rewarding one winner with a gift card if they can guess the number of fish in the live tank.
On A Positive Note: Lesson In Kindness From Mt. Lebanon School District Students
Sixth-grader Holden Frye returned to his elementary school, Hoover Elementary, to read his new book "The Spot" to students during an assembly. It's the highlight of the school's celebration of inclusion.
Jillian Zacks honored with Shore-Whitehill Award
The award, given annually by the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh and Jewish Residential Services, celebrates volunteers who promote the inclusion of people with disabilities in the fabric of Jewish life through advocacy or direct service to those individuals and their families.
Achieva Announces Partnership Between Erie and Pittsburgh Sites
Southwestern Pennsylvania-based Achieva, a disability advocacy and service organization, has announced its affiliation of The Arc Erie County with The Arc of Greater Pittsburgh, a member of the Achieva Family of Organizations.
Gov. Wolf and the legislature must raise wages now for home workers caring for people with disabilities | PennLive Editorial
Families of people with disabilities are pleading with Gov. Tom Wolf and the legislature to help. They are asking them to work together to raise the wages of the DSPs.
Low pay is causing a staffing crisis for disability care. Advocates say Pa.'s plan to raise wages isn't enough
Pennsylvania is facing a dire shortage of direct support professionals who help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities bathe, get dressed, eat, exercise, socialize, and perform many other fundamental tasks.
Feds approve Pennsylvania's plan to distribute more than $1 billion in pandemic funds for Medicaid services
The state's plan for the money focuses on increasing access to home and community-based services and staffing for those services. Addressing staff recruitment and retention is key, said Nancy Murray, president of the Arc of Greater Pittsburgh and senior vice president at Achieva.
State officials must work to avert collapse of intellectual disability/autism system
Latrobe Bulletin (Editorial by Nancy Murray, President, The Arc of Greater Pittsburgh)
'We're beginning to see the collapse of the system': agencies that serve people with disabilities call for more funds to pay staff
WESA FM (Nancy Murray, president of The Arc of Greater Pittsburgh and senior vice president at Achieva is quoted)
The PA justice system often fails autistic people. Can these activists and judges bring reform?
Public Source (Lu Randall, executive director, Autism Connection of PA is quoted)