Monday, December 30, 2024

Legislative Advocacy 2025

 

This year's Legislative Session begins January 13, 2025. To keep up to date on the the bills and hearings, check out the following sites, know who your legislators are https://leg.wa.gov/legislators/, and sign up for the Action Alerts with the Arc of WA at https://arcwa.org/advocacy/


Advocacy Days, part of The Arc’s Advocacy Partnership Project, are held during each legislative session to involve individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities (IDD), their families and their service providers in the legislative process, giving them opportunities to make their voices heard by their legislators and to have an impact on policy and budget legislation that affects the services and supports available to them.

For the schedule and to register, go to https://arcwa.org/advocacy/advocacy-days/


The Bill Tracker lists all the current bills effecting people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) and where they are in the legislative process. https://arcwa.org/advocacy/bill-tracker/


The Legislative Notebook is your resource for advocacy. It includes public policy ideas that community members are working on and information to help you understand how health, education and social services affect people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) https://arcwa.org/advocacy/2025-legislative-notebook/


Kittitas County Parent Coalition http://kc-parentcoalition.blogspot.com/

Monday, December 9, 2024

2025 Advocacy Days

https://arcwa.org/advocacy/advocacy-days/

Advocacy Days, part of The Arc’s Advocacy Partnership Project, are held during each legislative session to involve individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities (IDD), their families and their service providers in the legislative process, giving them opportunities to make their voices heard by their legislators and to have an impact on policy and budget legislation that affects the services and supports available to them.

Download the flyer with registration links here.

In 2025 we will offer a mixture of opportunities for people to participate.  All Advocacy Days begin at 10:00 am.- 11:30 am. 

On January 15th, there will be a live Advocacy Day, the program begins at 10:00 am at United Churches in Olympia. The morning program will be live streamed. All other Advocacy Days will be virtual to make the meetings more accessible to people all around the state.