Advocacy Alert

Contact Your Legislators: Stabilizing IDD Services in 2026: Continued Investment Needed

Use the form to the right to send a message to your legislators and encourage them to support an essential 10% rate increase for IDD reimbursement rates. It is strongly encourage that you include a personal message about why IDD services are important to you and your loved ones. These messages make a true difference in our advocacy efforts and support is needed statewide. 

How to Use the Form:

• Enter your home or work address in the form. The system will automatically match you with your legislators.

• Add a short personalized note in the box provided, even one sentence about your organization, your community, or someone you support makes the message more impactful.

• Click send and your message goes directly to your legislators’ official inboxes.

Key Points You’re Reinforcing:

• Gratitude for 2025 progress on provider rates and movement off the IDD waiting list, while recognizing the increased strain this progress has placed on provider capacity and the workforce.
• Provider capacity must be stabilized in 2026 to sustain waitlist progress, as workforce shortages, rising costs, and increased acuity are creating “invisible waiting lists” in many communities, with an increasing number of providers closed for new referrals.
• Sustained investment in provider rates and TCM is essential to support individuals and families during IDD system modernization and the transition to a long-term rate structure.
• CDDO funding corrections are necessary to ensure Community Developmental Disability Organizations can carry out legislatively directed modernization work and support the Community Support Waiver.
• Continued collaboration with KDADS, providers, families, and legislators is working, and ongoing partnership and annual investment are needed to ensure Kansans with IDD can live, work, and thrive in their home communities.