Mosaic Allied Voices Hail the Legislature

The community embraced the effort and showed up in full force!  Local providers formed a coalition to ban together to support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.  In celebration of March being Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) Month, Eva Longoria spoke about  the potential cuts and their impact on people.  She told stories of her sister, who currently resides in an HCS group home in San Antonio, Texas.  Her passion is the passion of many Texans.  The message was clear. Any cut to community based services will be detrimental to service outcomes.  Community partners spoke of the potential cuts, the affect the cuts will have on the economy, the community, and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Our Texas legislators are close to determining the outcome of services for the future.  The fate of how community based organizations operate and the way services are delivered to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities rest in the hands the legislatures'.   Hopefully, by now you have written a letter, called, faxed, emailed, blogged, or went to testify against such drastic changes.  If not, it is not to late to do so.

It is commonly known that it cost more to support a person in an institution, far more than supports in a community based agency. It appears our legislators, have forgotten about the Supreme Court's Olmstead decision. This decision states that the State must offer supports in the community to provide inclusion.  This potential change goes against this decision.

Please contact your local senator or house representative and tell them to to stop the catastrophic cuts.