Forwarded Action Alert: Please contact Maine Senators before Thursday

Maine Disability Alerts Forwarded Action Alert:

Dear Friends of Mainers with Disabilities,
 
Solid coverage in Bangor Daily News this weekend about the 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act--and threats to disability programs.
 
The US Senate Appropriations Committee, chaired by Senator Susan Collins, is scheduled to meet Thursday morning (July 31) to "mark up" the labor-health-and-human-services-education appropriations bill.
 
Please contact Maine's Congressional Delegation (but especially Senator Collins' office) to ask them to support disability programs in this week's "LHHS Appropriations markup", including:

• Don't eliminate University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UMaine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies)
• Don't eliminate Parent Training and Information Centers (Maine Parent Federation)
• Don't slash disability protection and advocacy (Disability Rights Maine)
• Don't eliminate disability employment programs
• Don't eliminate preschool disability programming

Senator Collins contact info (you can call any office and/or email via the web):

• 202-224-2523 DC office
• 207-622-8414 Augusta
• 207-945-0417 Bangor
• 207-283-1101 Biddeford
• 207-493-7873 Caribou
• 207-784-6969 Lewiston
• 207-618-5560
• https://www.collins.senate.gov/contact/email-senator-collins

You can also find a tool to email all for members of Maine's congressional delegation about UCEDDs at https://aucd.quorum.us/campaign/133226 (it'll take about 2 minutes)