{"id":3118,"date":"2024-08-19T13:23:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T13:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/?p=3118"},"modified":"2024-08-19T13:23:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T13:23:05","slug":"survival-coalition-releases-disability-aging-priorities-8-12-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/2024\/updates\/survival-coalition-releases-disability-aging-priorities-8-12-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Survival Coalition releases disability, aging priorities 8\/12\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Access to in-home care, voting, and transportation for non-drivers impact all Wisconsinites Survival Coalition\u2014a cross-disability and aging coalition of more than 20 statewide organizations\u2014has identified the top priorities affecting constituents in every district across the state. \u201cPeople with disabilities and unpaid caregivers, many of whom are family members, rely on in-home services to keep contributing to their communities and living in their own homes,\u201d said Patti Becker, Survival Coalition Co-Chair. \u201cOngoing investment in care infrastructure\u2014including the care workforce\u2014is<br>critical to support families and people with disabilities so they can continue to participate in the Wisconsin workforce and so people with disabilities and older adults can avoid costlier nursing homes and institutional settings. It\u2019s not enough for children with disabilities and special health care needs to get into a program if they still can\u2019t get the services you need, like private duty nursing, dentistry, and autism treatment, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SurvivalCoaltion_PressRelease_2025-27Priorities_08072024pb.pdf\">Read full press release.<\/a> See Budget papers below<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Access to in-home care, voting, and transportation for non-drivers impact all Wisconsinites Survival Coalition\u2014a cross-disability and aging coalition of more than 20 statewide organizations\u2014has identified the top priorities affecting constituents in every district across the state. \u201cPeople with disabilities and unpaid caregivers, many of whom are family members, rely on in-home services to keep contributing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3120,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions\/3120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}