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Please, contact your member of Congress today to ask them to co-sponsor the Direct Support Professionals Fairness and Security Act of 2007.

It’s a new year and ANCOR and United Cerebral Palsy have made a renewed commitment to advocating for people with disabilities and the workers who support them. We need YOU to join the effort.

Last year we asked you to advocate for legislation intended to help stabilize the workforce providing critical daily supports to the millions of Americans with disabilities who live and work in the community. Thousands of people like YOU answered the call to action and we were able to win support for our bill from 86 members of the United States House of Representatives.

This was no small achievement and we all share in the success. Last year’s efforts have put important goals within our reach in the new Congress.

It all begins with the reintroduction of our workforce legislation in the United States House of Representatives and we are pleased to announce that Representatives Lois Capps (D-CA) and Lee Terry (R-NE) have just introduced the Direct Support Professionals Fairness and Security Act of 2007 (H.R. 1279).

This bill gives states a much-needed option to secure additional federal dollars for the direct support workforce. These dollars are critical to stabilizing a workforce with turnover rates as high as 86%...turnover that jeopardizes the quality of life for people with disabilities.

Please contact your member of Congress today to ask them to co-sponsor H.R. 1279. We need your action to both get our existing supporters re-signed on the new bill and to secure new champions in the House of Representatives.

Please act now, and write to your member of Congress below. We thank you for sharing in our commitment to people with disabilities and the workers who support them.

(Please be sure to edit the form letter to your liking as from experience working near and on Capitol Hill, the more distinct these letters are, the more likely they are to be considered as a legitimate concern: Also there is a "Sincerely" in the middle of the letter that needs to be moved to the bottom.)

Thank you.