Using Your Voice

I/DD Legislative Caucus
Held March 26th, 2025

Couldn’t come? You can still participate.
  • Tell your own story why the Innovations Waiver, Direct Care/Direct Support Professional (DSP) workers and Medicaid are important for people with I/DD who chose to live in their homes and communities.
  • Tell your story in small and big ways across the state to teachers, health professionals, neighbors, extended family and others. Speak to others one-on-one. Attend meetings where policymakers attend to tell your story and ask questions.
  • Write emails and letters to your legislators about your own personal point of view.
  • Find organizations who advocate for the disability that impacts you or your family member
  • Find your legislator link: https://www.ncleg.gov/FindYourLegislators
  • Type in your address and you will be given the names of your House and Senate state representatives. You are considered their “constituents”.
  • Follow our Meet The Need NC Social Media and website for updates.
 
 
 
 

MEET THE NEED NC

7236 Aquinas Avenue
Raleigh, NC 27617

Email us: hello@meettheneedNC.org

Meet The Need NC is an initiative, funded by the North Carolina Council on Developmental Disabilities, that is changing the intellectual and other developmental disabilities (I/DD) landscape across the state. The initiative recognizes systemic change for I/DD community services and supports requires a common agenda. The content from Meet The Need NC aims to provide individuals, families and professionals education and information on intellectual and other developmental disabilities. It is not intended to replace professional medical, psychological, behavioral, legal, or educational counsel. Reference to any specific agency or legislation does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by Meet The Need NC or the North Carolina Council on Developmental Disabilities.

This project was supported, in part by grant number 2301NCSCDD ($2,160,620.00), from the U.S. Administration for Community Living, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. 20201. Grantees undertaking projects with government sponsorship are encouraged to express freely their findings and conclusions. Points of view or opinions do not, therefore, necessarily represent official ACL policy.

Meet The Need NC is driven by the Leadership Alliance for Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LAND), a program of the 501c3 nonprofit, Mental Health Transformation Alliance (MHTA). LAND is a disability advocacy organization made up of family members and individuals with I/DD “lived experience” and other professionals dedicated to improving the lives of those with I/DD and their families.”

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