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Help us support Senate Bill 65! Visit the website for The Campaign to Strengthen Human Services and fill out the easy-to-use online form to send a letter to your legislators.

Save the Date! Our Annual Convention and Expo will take place on Dec. 3, 2008 at the Marriott Copley Place! We will send our members more information about the 33rd annual event in the coming months.

     

    The latest news from the Council:

    - JULY 15: S.65 (S.2764) passes House unanimously! - The House of Representatives unanimously passed S.65 (S.2764) favorably on Tuesday afternoon, sending the measure to the Governor Deval L. Patrick. Please call your Representatives and thank them for their support of S.65 (S.2764)!

    - JULY 14: S.65 (S.2764) reported favorably out of House Ways & Means - The House Ways & Means Committee met Monday and voted S.65 (S.2764) favorably out of committee, sending the measure to the full House. The bill would fix the state's broken purchase of services system and update state contracts for all human service providers within three years. Please call your Representatives and ask them to support S.65 (S.2764) when it comes to the full House! The end of the legislative session is July 31.

    - JULY 13: Governor Patrick signs budget with $23m Salary Reserve - Governor Deval Patrick signed the state's $28.1 billion FY2009 budget Sunday afternoon, allocating $23 million to the Salary Reserve to give modest increases to human services workers making $40,000 and less annually. The Providers' Council and its members thank the Governor and State Legislature for helping these individuals who give so much to take care of the state's most vulnerable residents.

    - JUNE 24: Senate unanimously approves S.65! (S.2764) – One day after the Senate Ways & Means Committee gave a favorable report to S.65 (S.2764), the full Senate unanimously approved the bill and sent it to the House Ways & Means Committee for consideration. We are incredibly pleased at the latest movement on the bill, and we ask for your continued help!

    Please contact your representatives today and ask them to support Senate Bill 65 (S.2764). If they sit on the House Ways & Means Committee, ask them to give the bill a favorable report out of committee. If they don't sit on the committee, ask them to contact Ways & Means Committee Chairman Robert DeLeo and express their support for the legislation! Click here for a roster of the House Ways & Means Committee and to find out who your representative is, please click here. Let us know of your progress at 617-428-3637, and once again, thanks for your continued efforts!

    - JUNE 23: S.65 reported favorably out of Senate Ways & Means, now Senate Bill 2764 – We are very pleased to let you know that Senate Bill 65 has been favorably reported out of the Senate Ways & Means Committee and now has a new bill number: Senate Bill 2764.

    Please see a notice from The Collaborative about the bill's progress and an additional memo detailing the provisions of the redrafted bill. Both of these important documents explain the redrafted bill.

     Summary of bill progress (40KB)

     Memo on redrafted bill (138KB)

    Today’s action by the Senate Committee on Ways and Means is a tremendous step forward for The Collaborative and our members, as we seek implementation of a rational and fair rate-setting process. Much work still needs to be done before the legislative session ends on July 31. Please follow www.strengthenhumanservices.org for next steps. Thank you very much to all of you for your hard work and the support you have provided to The Collaborative! Please don’t hesitate to contact us should you have any questions about today’s action or the process moving forward.

    - Rowell to keynote Providers' Council 33rd Annual Convention & Expo, Awards of Excellence brochures released - Victoria Rowell, foster care advocate and actress, will be the keynote speaker at the Providers' Council's 33rd Annual Convention and Expo: Leading for Change.

    One of today's most talented actresses, Emmy-nominee Victoria Rowell has achieved success on television in The Young and the Restless and Diagnosis Murder and in films such as Eve's Bayou and Home of the Brave. Raised in foster care, she credits her success to the foster families that instilled in her the confidence and drive to succeed. For more information about Victoria, click here to read her biography.

    The Council has also released its 2008 Awards of Excellence brochure. Has someone at your agency done exceptional work over the past year or is there a legislator, member of the media or state employee who you feel deserves praise in front of more than 1,000 friends of the human services sector? Let us know by nominating them today!

    - Council begins CareVote campaign – Join the CareVote campaign, and be listed as a sponsor at our CareVote website, www.carevote.org. CareVote, the voting initiative of the Providers' Council, is beginning its voter registration and education efforts for the 2008 election. For more information, visit the CareVote website and to make sure you're on our official list of endorsers, please fill out this form and e-mail or fax it back to us!

    - Senate budget keeps salary reserve langauge in line with House budget – The state Senate has released its budget for FY 2009 which contained a $23 million salary reserve for employees making less than $40,000.

    The $23 million figure the Senate released is in line with the figure released by the House earlier this year. This means that human service workers are likely to see the salary reserve set at $23 million for FY 2009 and are likely to see a salary increase.

    The Providers' Council will follow the budget process as it progresses and continue posting new information in the eDigest, as well as on our website.

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    1. Visit the good2gether network by visiting the below link. By signing up as a member of the Providers' Council -- a launch partner -- you're assured to stay on the cutting edge! http://preview.good2gether.com/join/mchsp

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    Don't delay -- join now by visiting http://preview.good2gether.com/join/mchsp. Questions about g2g? Contact us today.

    - House Ways & Means FY2009 Budget Proposal contains $23 million in Salary Reserve – The House Ways & Means Committee released its FY2009 budget proposal on April 16, and included $23 million in the salary reserve. They also designated the amount to go to human services workers making less than $40,000 per year. The Collaborative, of which the Providers' Council is a member, issued a statement on the budget early Wednesday afternoon. To read the statement, please click here.

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