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Community Providers Call for Funding Solution - Read the 6/3/09 Press Statement from Terry Edelstein, President/CEO of CCPA.

All press inquiries should be directed to Terry Edelstein, President/CEO of CCPA.  She can be reached at the CCPA office: (860) 257-7909.

• To view CCPA's Press Archives, click here.

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Public Policy Related Media Coverage

August 2009  
2/25/10 Non-profit agencies feeling the pain as Rell administration imposes spending cuts, The Connecticut Mirror, by Keith M. Phaneuf
2/19/10 Our Leaders Fail The Neediest At Southbury Training School X, Hartford Courant, Rick Green
2/4/10 Maintain The Safety Net For Residents in Need, Press Release
11/25/09 Rell Initiates Devasting Cuts To Community Providers - Terry Edelstein, President/CEO, CCPA
12/13/09 Labor costs off limits - New Haven Register, Editorial
12/13/09 Dithering while Connecticut sinks in red ink - The Day, Editorial
12/9/09 Hundreds Turn Out For Public Hearing On Budget Cuts - CT News Junkie - by Christine Stuart
8/25/09 Malloy outlines plan to better fund non-profits - Stamford Times - by Chase Wright
8/25/09 Stamford mayor blasts Rell on funding nonprofits - Connecticut Post - by Ken Dixon
8/25/09 Malloy weighs in on funding reform - New Haven Register - by Mary O'Leary
8/25/09 Agencies Need State Support, Social Service, Mental Health Providers Must Get Adequate Funds - Editorial -Hartford Courant
8/24/09 Malloy Says He Would Do Things Differently - CT News Junkie - by Christine Stuart
8/22/09 Are Rell's Executive Spending Orders Legal? - Connecticut Post - by Bill Cummings
8/17/09 Nonprofits to have emergency meeting - ConnPolitics.tv Staff
8/14/09 Shifting Clients To Cash-Strapped Nonprofits - by Christine Stuart, Posted to General News
8/1/09 State enters 2nd month without budget - Journal Inquirer article - by Keith Phaneuf
8/4/09 Social Service groups face layoffs if budget isn't passed - Connecticut Post - by Ken Dixon
8/8/09 Our View:  Nonprofits mistreated - Norwich Bulletin
   
July 2009  
   
7/26/09 Radio Interview with InterCommunity's President and CEO Kim Beauregard with My Community Acesss
7/2/09 Budget Shmudget: Vetoed as Talks Continue - NCB Connecticut News - by Debra Bogstie
   
June 2009  
6/24/09 Budget process reaches new low - Connecticut Post - Editorial
6/14/09 Preparations being made with no budget in sight - Associated Press
   
May 2009  
5/18/09 Nonprofits Lobby for Continued Funding - CT News Junkie
5/18/09 CT Nonprofits press for funding - Hartford Business Journal
5/15/09 Non-profits rally to keep state funding flowing - Stamford Advocate - By Brian Lockhart
5/15/09 Our View:  Nonprofits Deserve Fair Funding - Norwich Bulletin Editorial
5/13/09 New Haven Register 'Forum' oped piece:  Nonprofits need more support now
   
April 2009  
4/10/09

Allow additional DDS services - Connecticut Post - State Representatives T.R. Rowe & Tony Hwang

   
March 2009  
3/24/09 Fund Community-Based Service Agencies - Hartford Courant, OpEd, Terry Edelstein
3/3/09 Budget Impacts Community Service Groups - WTNH, Mark Davis
   
February 2009  
2/25/09 Non-Profits in a Down Economy - "Where We Live," WNPR, Connecticut Public Radio
   

January 2009

 
1/29/09 Agencies Will Feel Brunt of United Way Shortfall - New London Day, Patricia Daddonna
1/29/09 Governor Rell Vows No New Taxes to Eliminate Deficits - Hartford Courant, Christopher Keating and Mark Pazniokas
1/26/09 United Way Fund-Raising Shortfall Prompts Cuts - New London Day, Patricia Daddonna
1/22/09

Close Children's Facility, A Top GOP Lawmaker Urges - Hartford Courant, Christopher Keating

1/6/09 The Poor State of Social Services - Hartford Courant, Column, Susan Campbell
1/5/09 Political Persuasion:  State of the State - Hartford Business Journal, Dean Pagani
1/4/09 Our View:  Cut State Agencies First - Norwich Bulletin, Editorial
   

December 2008

 
12/12/08 State Won't Fund Supportive Housing Plan - Hartford Courant, Monica Polanco
12/9/08 DCF Can Do Better for Taxpayers, Troubled Kids - Hartford Courant, Rick Green
12/9/08 After Its Own Workers, What's Left for Government? - Journal Inquirer, Chris Powell
12/4/08 Newtowners Are Not Invisible in Advocating for Disabled Services - Newtown Bee, John Voket
   
November 2008  
11/24/08 Parents Rally for Children with Disabilities - New England Cable News, Brian Burnell
11/23/08 Financial Soul Searching - Record-Journal, Amanda Falcone
11/21/08 Rally for Norwalk-based STAR Set to Support Agencies - Norwalk Hour, Jill Bodach
11/21/08 Nonprofits Say They Need More from State - Journal Inquirer, Keith Phaneuf
11/19/08 The Smart Money is on Private Providers - Danbury News Times, Commentary, Brian Koonz
11/16/08 Tough Medicine for State's Tough Times - Hartford Courant, Op Ed, Jonathan Pelto
   
October 2008  
10/22/08 Parents of Disabled Children Find No Rell to Receive their Pleas - Stamford Advocate (also appeared in Wesport News), Brian Lockhart
10/20/08 Vital Nonprofits Need More Help - Stamford Advocate, Editorial
10/19/08 Our View:  If Nonprofits Fail, Many Will Suffer - Norwich Bulletin, Editorial
10/19/08 Providers Network Ready to Collapse - Connecticut Post, Letter to the Editor, Martin P. Schwartz
10/19/08 Week in Review:  Uncertainty Everywhere We Turn - Hartford Courant, Arielle Levin Becker
10/17/08 Cash-Strapped Non-Profit Agencies Trimming Staff, Repairs - Journal Inquirer, Associated Press, Susan Haigh
10/17/08 Plan Urged for $10M in Heating Aid to Schools, Nonprofit groups - Stamford Advocate, Brian Lockhart
10/16/08 Survey:  State's Community Providers Cutting Back - Hartford Courant, Associated Press
10/16/08 Rell Proposes Heating Aid for Nonprofits, Schools - Associated Press
10/14/08 Agencies Deserve Better Funding - Connecticut Post, Editorial
   
September 2008  
9/13/08 The Left Drops Gender; and Freeze Public Pay - Journal Inquirer, Chris Powell
9/3/08 State must work out plan to release $4M in heating funds - Stamford Advocate, Brian Lockhart
   
August 2008  
8/13/08

Nonprofits want share of energy aid coming from state surplus - Journal Inquirer, Keith Phaneuf

 
June 2008  
6/25/08 Governor swings the budget ax, orders $160 million in cuts - Journal Inquirer, Keith Phaneuf
6/25/08

Minimum wage no test of aid to working class - Journal Inquirer, Chris Powell

6/21/08

Rell wrong to reject health care legislation - Norwich Bulletin, Stan Soby, Vice President for Community Affairs, Oak Hill

6/18/08

Three Democratic Senators Rip Rell's Veto- Hartford Courant Capitol Watch, Christopher Keating, Capitol Bureau Chief  

6/16/08 Non-Profits, Democrats Upset Over Rell Veto -Hartford Courant Capitol Watch, Christopher Keating, Capitol Bureau Chief  
6/16/08 Rell’s Veto of Cabinet Stuns Lawmakers - CT News Junkie, Christine Stuart
6/2/08 Session to deal with real estate tax ... only- Lawmakers asked to scrap agenda - Republican American, Paul Hughes
   
May 2008  
5/13/08

Do-nothing session - Connecticut legislators left much work undone - Danbury News-Times Editorial

5/11/08 Nonprofit health workers on short end of budget - Norwich Bulletin Editorial
5/11/08 Video interview with Barry Simon, Executive Director of Gilead Community Services & CCPA Chairman of the Board and Terry Edelstein, President & CEO of CCPA - News Channel 30
5/7/08

Poor need more help from the state - Stamford Advocate Editorial

5/3/08 Mayors blast Assembly over funding - CT Post, Ken Dixon
5/1/08 CCPA Wants State To Use Rainy Day Fund For Cash-Strapped Non-profits That Face 0 Increase -Hartford Courant, Christopher Keating, Capitol Bureau Chief

The Connecticut Community Providers Association (CCPA) represents organizations that provide services and supports for people with disabilitiesincluding people with addictions, mental illness, developmental, and physical disabilities.  CCPA operates three divisions, developmental disabilities, behavioral health, and children's mental health & substance abuse, and is the lead advocate for rehabilitation

and behavioral health service providers, supporting services for people with disabilities at the state legislature and with state agencies.