HUMAN SERVICES PROGRAMS
Family issues
- Provide funding for social service program;
- Provide safety net programs for families and individuals;
- Improve assistance for individuals to overcome personal health obstacles (i.e. substance abuse);
- Improve assistance for individuals to receive education and technological skills to help advance in the workforce;
- Provide assistance for special needs populations of all ages (IDD, autism, etc.); and
- Provide assistance for low-income families (LIHEAP)
Seniors
- Provide assistance for Aging in Place programs;
- Provide assistance to and promote naturally occurring retirement communities (NORC);
- Provide assistance to public transportation; increase accessibility to/ from senior housing;
- Sustain Medicaid/ Medicare funding;
- Provide safeguards to protect seniors from physical and financial abuse; and
- Provide assistance to food pantries, senior centers and nursing homes
Children
- Sustain or increase funding for Education Improvement Tax Credits (EITC);
- Improve Pennsylvania’s child care programs;
- Improve Pennsylvania’s foster care system; and
- Support pre-kindergarten and private education programs
SOCIAL JUSTICE
- Promote tolerance in our society and oppose crimes of hate;
- Promote religious tolerance in schools and society;
- Oppose immigration discriminatory actions (immigration, employment, housing, etc.);
- Continue Assistance in the Implementation of Holocaust education legislation: Act 70 of 2014;
- Reduce poverty in Pennsylvania;
- Preserve and protect the State of Israel
- Promotion of trade between Pennsylvania and Israeli businesses;
- Strive to establish criteria for tax exempt entities;
- Increase energy independence through conservation and alternative energy; and
- Create a safer and healthier environment in which all Pennsylvanians can work and live.