---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bruce Darling <brucedarl...@cdrnys.org> Date: Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 11:33 AM Subject: Urge Congress to Extend Money Follows the Person!
Now that Congress has addressed funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), they have the opportunity to use the same approach to restore and fund the Money Follows the Person (MFP) demonstration program. MFP was designed to help states transition people with disabilities from institutions into the community and to assist states in rebalancing their long-term services and supports systems to increase access to home and community based services. Since it began, 47 states have participated and over 75,000 disabled people have been liberated from institutions. Unfortunately, MFP expired on September 30, 2016 and states have started to shut down their MFP programs. Although there was a lot of public attention on the need to reauthorize the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), very few people in Congress were aware of the need to reauthorize and fund MFP. Congress must work to save and adequately fund MFP. It can do this by including reauthorization of MFP in the negotiations on larger funding issues and supporting the EMPOWER Care Act (S. 2227). Take Action (http://cqrcengage.com/cdrnys/app/take-action?engagementId= 427693&ep=AAAAC2Flc0NpcGhlcjAxXUJKgROn9wTHmR3GCV0aqPuoSi_ KugYqed4zabdHuic1rFH4eUPpwNjfszjFg8GqmPSl29FFouRKhSUqt2OVvuF so6aL163gBLwGLbhCGxY&lp=0) Unsubscribe: http://cqrcengage.com/cdrnys/app/subscriptions?r= AAAAC2Flc0NpcGhlcjAx7zaZ-1sgvu0SsuXEXyOMYYcI54XrKNTUO8oRTAGd6wI Powered by CQRC Engage (http://cqrcengage.com/cdrnys/app/thru?ep= AAAAC2Flc0NpcGhlcjAxAqS5ZPKvGRIdz8hgZi1ItkyRZAPLcssLoSAFl2ESKfHkztTxdb_ rdW9gO3bS5pG93NaP5ro1HHadOplXmZZ5FL1PJGooGpZ4GupOcXvXZLXrHEx d-BKq2K8SIZ_AZRKk&lp=0)
