What Can You Do?
Current Action Items
Simple ways to have your voice heard
Support MA House Bill H.245
An Act regarding the use of aversive therapy
LEGISLATIVE ALERT:
This legislation is to prohibit the use of procedures which cause physical pain or deny a reasonable humane existence to persons with disabilities.
Email Governor Maura Healey
IT’S TIME FOR OUR GOVERNOR TO TAKE ACTION!
While we are grateful for her letter to the FDA in support of the GED ban it is NOT ENOUGH! We call on the Governor to use her powers to put an end to this barbaric practice!
Petition To Audit The JRC’s Financials
JRC is a financial giant with many powerful people in their pocket and spend hundreds of thousands of our tax dollars on lobbying to keep them there and acquire more. It is time to see who they have paid! Ex: Politicians, Judges, Lawyers , Their Parent Council etc…
Ask Media to Cover This Issue
We must spread the word to put pressure on Government Agencies to make level 3 aversives including the GED Shock Device illegal.
Oppose Senate Bill S.2785
An Act to provide more timely treatment of inpatient mental health care
LEGISLATIVE ALERT:
Proposed Bill Bypasses Public Hearing, Seeks to Gut Critical Patient Protections
The bill was quickly introduced and voted favorably out of the Joint Committee on Mental Health, Substance Use and Recovery, moving it one step closer to becoming law almost before anyone knew it was a proposal at all. It now sits with the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing.