About CCPA’s Community Provider Initiative:
The Community Provider Initiative (CPI) is a focused and visible grassroots effort to enhance services and supports for people with disabilities and significant needs served by community provider organizations. Through this media and public relations campaign, CCPA has worked to build public and policy maker support for Connecticut’s community providers.
The initial goal was to create an environment in which community providers were allocated more funds from state government. The long-term goal is to develop support for significant structural changes in the way in which government funds and contracts with private providers.
The Initiative has given private providers a great amount of visibility, making them one of the top priorities for the 2009 Legislative Session.
“Many of the things we have done have created the problem and created the gap in pay disparity…. We’ve created that problem. It is up to us to solve it…” Senator John McKinney, 6/23/08
“What this is about is over one half million of our most vulnerable citizens, over one half million of children and adults with disabilities and special needs, over a half million of people, our families, our friends, our neighbors, with mental illness, substance abuse, developmental and physical disabilities.” Senator Jonathan Harris, 6/23/08
The Initiative is funded through dues paid by CCPA members and has sponsored activities included television advertisements, postcard campaigns, press conferences, Capitol rallies and newspaper advertisements. CCPA’s Community Provider Initiative Steering Committee has been working hard on a continued plan for action. Executive Directors of CCPA member agencies who are interested in government relations/public policy are welcome to join the committee. It meets every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month from 12:00 to 2:00. Please contact Alyssa Goduti, Vice President for Public Policy, CCPA, at agoduti@ccpa-inc.org for more information. |
