CCPA's Contact Your Legislator feature allows you to contact your legislators via email. You may then write your own personalized message or use CCPA Talking Points, below.

We appreciate the 1% Cost of Living Adjustment for nonprofit community-based providers, effective January 1, 2013, that Governor Malloy and the Legislature included in the FY13 budget. This recommendation is a positive first step in enhancing our ability to retain and recruit staff and support our workforce.

Please tell your legislators as they begin to develop the budget proposals for the 2014-2015 biennium, we urge them to consider the following:

• Nonprofit community-based providers provide essential services to more than half a million people each year. We are a vital component of the state and local economy and employ a highly skilled work force.
• We are efficient and cost-effective partners with the State of Connecticut, delivering our services at one-half the cost of services at state-run facilities.
• Prior to FY2013, we have had no COLA for 4 years.
• Federal Health Care Reform will add approximately 150,000 residents to the State Medicaid rolls, most of whom will seek services from nonprofit community-based providers.
• In addition, the ACA mandates new service delivery models with a focus on values and quality outcomes.
• As service providers, employers and community businesses, we require a 7% COLA over the 2014-2015 biennium to meet these challenges.
• We keep people healthy, employed and productive! We keep kids safe and healthy! We are the safety net!
• Thank you for your consideration

Please contact Mary Anne O'Neill, Director of Public Policy for more information.

Use the following search feature to contact legislators:

*Note: Senate Democrats now require you to email them directly from the email submission form on their websites. For these individuals, CCPA has provided a link that will direct you to the appropriate place (you will see a web address in lieu of the Senator’s standard email address).

Please click on this link and submit your message using the CCPA analysis of the budget: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, as well as CCPA Talking Points. Additionally, please use CCPA's new infographic Economic Snapshot of Private Provider Sector in your communication with legislators.

You may continue to use the CCPA Contact Your Legislator feature to directly email Republican Senators, as well as both Democratic and Republican Representatives. Simply search by town, check the name of the legislator you wish to contact, complete the fields below and click "send!"