Nancy Murray of Achieva, also a member of Western Pennsylvania Disability History and Action Consortium’s Executive Committee, wrote a compelling op-ed about the shortage of and lack of funding for Direct Support Professionals. This crisis has been building for many years, and since the pandemic has reached unprecedented levels.
“Families have become the safety net for the very system that was created to support them. The crisis in the ID/A community is getting worse every day, and we desperately need all of our legislators to make this a funding priority.
Families, people with ID/A, Direct Support Professionals (DSPs), and provider organizations are united in making formal requests for funding. Today, though, I am a mom reaching out to say ‘Help us. These are our sons and daughters. They are Pennsylvanians and some of our most vulnerable neighbors. They are all of us.’” – Nancy Murray
