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Our Top Priority For The 2025-26 Budget

A 7.8% Medicaid rate increase to stabilize the system of care for New Yorkers with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Click here to take action! one-click campaign.

Urge Governor Hochul to address our requests for the 2025-2026 budget.

We need your support! Click here to take action! one-click campaign. We are calling on state leaders to include the following requests in the 2025-26 New York State Budget:

  • Investment in I/DD services through a 7.8% Medicaid rate increase to stabilize non-profit provider agencies
  • Creation of a Wage Commission to examine the roles and responsibilities of human service workers and establish fair, sustainable compensation standards commensurate with that work.
  • Enhanced Capital Funding to help agencies modernize their operations, making them more energy-efficient and aligned with the state’s climate goals.

You can directly send Governor Hochul a message with a few clicks using this form.  Click Here