by Brenda Peluso | May 17, 2025 | News & Events, Take Action
LD 1932, Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau’s bill, Maine Essential Care and Support Workforce Enhancement Act, has been carried over to the short session where we hope for an environment with a little more certainty and less fatigue. So what’s next for the...
by Brenda Peluso | May 15, 2025 | News & Events
Throughout our work with providers and essential care and support workers, the call for others to spend “a day in the life” of an essential care and support worker has been strong. The idea being that if people had a real-life understanding of the work, the following...
by Brenda Peluso | Mar 31, 2025 | News & Events
Members of the Partnership have been meeting with legislators to urge them to prioritize the restoration of COLAs and reject language that destroys the progress we’ve made on our MaineCare Rate Setting System. We have also collected signatures from individuals and...
by Brenda Peluso | Mar 27, 2025 | News & Events
While the Partnership continues to fight for at least the status quo in the midst of the unraveling budget situation in the State House, the Working Groups are looking to the future by picking up their Phase Two Work. As we reported in our January 10th post, Maine...
by Brenda Peluso | Mar 15, 2025 | News & Events, Take Action
UPDATED MARCH 15, 2025 Going into this legislative session, The Partnership was working to build on the progress it has made over the past few years. Unfortunately, we have been spending the first months of this session fighting to hold the gains we have...