Community Awareness

California Budget Reductions Impact Easter Seals

Easter Seals projects to lose over $300,000 in revenue this year as a result of the budget cuts that were implemented at the State level to Early Intervention Services and Adult Services. In Early Intervention alone, Easter Seals aniticpates losing almost 20% of their clients as they will no longer meet the new eligibility criteria. In addition, certain disabled children will have to exhaust insurance services or receive a denial from their insurance provider for their therapy. The time it will take families to go through that process will be literally months and that again results in loss of revenue for Easter Seals and potential staff layoffs. If a family cannot afford to access their private insurance services, due to their inability to pay their insurance deductibles or therapy visit co-pays, then their child will not receive any therapy services at all. There will be HUGE ramifications from these policy changes that affect the school systems in the years to come. The financial burden will then rest on the school systems verses the Alta California Regional Center state budget. There could be as many as 1,700 children who will no longer qualify for Early Intervention therapy services.

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