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The JLARC Study bought out three points that I would like to discuss

1. It stated that the regulations that have put on assisted living facilities that work with the (AG) program are burdensome and that the cost for AG is unfair Market pricing

1. JLARC stated that Assisted living facilities that work with this program should be making at least 3750.00 a month

   We only mak 1219.00

    

2. JLARC stated that because of these regulations we will be looking at a crisis because bed will not be available because they are decreasing and with these regulations that are put into place without extra funding; many AG housing programs will be shut down or closed

3. JLARC stated that assisted living facilities that take the clients who need a little more assistance would also decline; especially that they are not receiving any funding for the extra hours of training, and extra staffing, and extra oversites

There fore; we are wondering why DSS is still trying to regulate without the necessary resources such as money to follow these regulations

We also notice an increase in unsupervised housing for clients with mental disabilities; and that they are allowing them to go into these facilities and as well as creating model programs that would allow clients to go into unregulated facilities; yet they bombard us with them;

1. We are not medical facilities and we should stop looking like mini-institutions with all the nurses and RN and dietician let them stay in the nursing care business

2. We are not big business and we are minority businesses and they are attacking our business where we are not able to stand and we cannot compete with unregulated facilities and facilities that make over 5,000.00 for their clients; we are room and board and we provide 24 hours of prompting, monitoring clients behavior, and making sure they get help from resources within the community. We are not paid or designed to be medical providers or miracle workers.

3. So, if you look at these new regulations don’t allow any regulation that strain residential or those who accept the AG program. Lets work together and see that we provide an awesome service but what good is the goody to notion but our clients out in the community without proper supervision and care; in shelters; in the street; because it looked like you working against us to eliminate us through your unmandated regulations

1. There is a regulation to increase the training hours- training hours for residential direct care workers are efficient for the things we need or what we do

   We are already in a hole all these regulations do is just bury us.

   And it is an impact to an already struggling industry; because on hands training is the best training for the residential training; we are not bathing clients, we are not turning them over we are not going to make more money for VCU dementia programs and give more money to some nurse sitting on the board who want to open a training school. WE are drained even a leech know how to get off a blood source knowing to take a little at time so the source can aleast survive.