HCBS Gather for Change Learning and Advocacy Team

The HCBS Gather for Change Learning and Advocacy Team is an opportunity to develop advocacy and team-building skills and to learn to talk with policy makers about Home and Community Based Services.

Are you:

  • A person with lived disability experience?
  • A self-advocate with an intellectual or developmental disability or Autism?
  • A Pennsylvania resident with a disability who uses waiver services to live the life you want to live?
  • Someone who enjoys learning new advocacy skills and working as a team?
  • Interested in talking to policy makers about why HCBS is important to you?

Yes? We want YOU!

On a city sidewalk next to a planter filled with fresh soil, a Black woman using a wheelchair and a white woman wearing a suit chat, among other small groups

The team will be made up of: Pennsylvania residents with a disability who use waiver services to live the life they want to live, people with lived disability experience, and Self-advocates with an intellectual or developmental disability or Autism.

The HCBS Gather for Change team will meet both virtually and in-person. Participants must commit to attending all sessions.

Gather for Change 2024 Meeting Schedule

Virtual sessions are from 10 a.m. to 12 noon:

  • April 11, Thursday
  • April 25, Thursday
  • May 8, Wednesday
  • May 15, Wednesday
  • June 19, Wednesday
  • June 26, Wednesday

In-person session in Harrisburg, PA:

  • June 2024

Advocacy and Education Day:

  • Date and time to be announced.

Questions?

For more information, email dbeckett@temple.edu.

Project Funding

This project is funded by the Pennsylvania Developmental Disabilities Council.