Issues Development Subcommittee
Please Note: This subcommittee is only meeting via Zoom online
This committee is responsible for creating issue statements and will include: conducting any necessary research on any given issue, follow up on each issue statement and managing timelines for responses to each statement. This group also reviews and finalizes issue statements from local councils and presents them to the Statewide Consumer Council for approval.
Meetings are held on the 2nd Wednesday of each month from 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Anyone is welcome to attend!
To join by video, click link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8938611710
To join by phone only (no computer needed), dial: 1-929-205-6099
Enter Webinar / Meeting ID# when prompted: 893 861 1710
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Action Alerts
- Legislative Action AlertPublic Hearing: March 25 @ 1:15 PM in Room 206 of the Burton Cross Building.
An Act to Increase Bridging Rental Assistance Program Housing Voucher Funding to Reduce the Current Partial Waiting List and Increase Housing Vouchers for Persons Living with Mental Health Challenges - Tell the Maine Delegation to Save Disability AdvocacyA leaked budget proposal called for dramatic cuts to Disability Rights Maine and our partners, the Maine Developmental Disabilities Council and the Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, and our counterparts in every state and territory. These cuts would undermine decades of work that have transformed the disability services system.
- Legislative Action AlertPublic Hearing: March 25 @ 1:15 PM in Room 206 of the Burton Cross Building.
An Act to Increase Bridging Rental Assistance Program Housing Voucher Funding to Reduce the Current Partial Waiting List and Increase Housing Vouchers for Persons Living with Mental Health Challenges - Concept Draft: Psychiatric Advance DirectiveIssue: Peers in the mental health sphere deserve to have autonomy over their medical decisions. To facilitate better mental health care, a process needs to be utilized prior to a crisis. The absence of a standardized, person-centered psychiatric/mental health advanced directive (PAD) process leaves individuals experiencing mental health crises without a clear way of expressing
