Read Letter - Stop the cuts to PDD services
By Patricia Okahashi
Written Jan. 24, 2010
A letter written to Dr. Neil Brown, Calgary-Nose Hill
Dear Neil, I am writing to protest the fact that agencies providing services to people with developmental disabilities have been asked to continue to provide the current level of services with a 2% cut to funding, retroactive to last April. As you may remember from Lloyd Thornhill's and my visits to your office,This field actually requires an increase in funding not a decrease in order to create a sustainable and caring workforce. While a 2% cut may sound like very little, this corresponds to a couple of hundred thousand at the agency that I used to work at. Given that that agency is already operating on a shoestring, it is unlikely that they will be able to absorb that shortfall by making cuts to administrative costs only. Indeed, cuts to services will happen if the government follows through on its threats to withdraw funding. I fail to see how this action lives up to Stelmach's promise to take care of the most vulnerable in our society. You have spoken up on behalf of improvements to funding to PDD services in the past and I hope that you will do so again, in light of this newest funding crisis.
Written Jan. 24, 2010
Dear Neil, I am writing to protest the fact that agencies providing services to people with developmental disabilities have been asked to continue to provide the current level of services with a 2% cut to funding, retroactive to last April. As you may remember from Lloyd Thornhill's and my visits to your office,This field actually requires an increase in funding not a decrease in order to create a sustainable and caring workforce. While a 2% cut may sound like very little, this corresponds to a couple of hundred thousand at the agency that I used to work at. Given that that agency is already operating on a shoestring, it is unlikely that they will be able to absorb that shortfall by making cuts to administrative costs only. Indeed, cuts to services will happen if the government follows through on its threats to withdraw funding. I fail to see how this action lives up to Stelmach's promise to take care of the most vulnerable in our society. You have spoken up on behalf of improvements to funding to PDD services in the past and I hope that you will do so again, in light of this newest funding crisis.
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