On June 1 the PA Intellectual Disability and Autism (IDA) Coalition asked Governor Tom Corbett to include in next year’s budget adequate funding for room and board expenses for group homes serving people with intellectual disabilities. The IDA Coalition, a coalition of statewide organizations including PARF, said that the proposal to severely limit payment for room and board costs of operating group homes for people with intellectual disabilities would have catastrophic consequences for thousands of the very people Governor Corbett have pledged to protect. The Coalition said that a further review by the administration has found that the rationale and the data that were used to support this proposal were faulty and incomplete. FMI: Contact PARF at parfmail@parf.org.
