Prepared by the United Way of Pennsylvania, this presentation was delivered by Gary Drapek, president of the United Way of Lackawanna and Wayne Counties on March 25, 2013 at the Human Services Integration Summit in Scranton, PA.

1. 2013
PENNSYLVANIA
BUDGET ANALYSIS
United Way of Pennsylvania
United Way of Lackawanna & Wayne
Counties
March 25, 2013
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2. 2013-14 BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS
 Spends $28.4 billion – 2.4 percent
increase over Fiscal Year 2012-13
 Major reform initiatives to sell the
state liquor system to invest in
education, modernize
Pennsylvania‟s transportation
infrastructure and overhaul the
state pension system
 Enhanced support for Pre-K-12
public education, public
safety, older Pennsylvanians, and
Individuals with disabilities.
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3. 2012-13 SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
REQUEST
Total of $96 million in supplemental requests:
 Education – Early Intervention - $10.8 million
 Public Welfare – Total net supplemental of $ 69.3
million, including:
• Long-Term Living - $62.3 million increase
• Office of Medical Assistance - $41.5 million increase
• Office of Income Maintenance - $26.7 million
decrease
• Youth Development Institutions and Forestry Camps -
$7.8 million decrease
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7. MODEST INCREASES
Early Childhood
Education
Safety Net
Human Services
Autism/ID Services
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8. IMPACTS OF SEQUESTRATION
A partial listing of state programs that could
be impacted and dollar amounts, include:
 $43 million from Title I (education fund for
poor kids);
 $33 million from Special Education;
 $19 million from WIC;
 $5.3 million from social services;
 $1 million from early intervention; and
 $2 million from community service block
grants
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9. EDUCATION IN
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10. PASSPORT FOR LEARNING
$1 Billion in proceeds will be used from the liquor store divestiture to fund the
Passport for Learning Block Grant program for school districts, focusing on:
 School Safety: Training for administrators and educators, enhanced security
measures and partnerships with local law enforcement.
 “Ready by 3” – early learning programs: Grant funding that may be used for
improvements to quality kindergarten programs aligned with current academic
standards that promote enhanced academic achievement in elementary
reading and mathematics.
 Individualized learning: Funding from this grant may be used for start-up costs
related to implementing Competency Based Education with a focus on self-
paced mastery of a customized learning plan based on student proficiency.
 STEM programs: Enhanced student access to
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics programming in grades six
to twelve.
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11. EDUCATION INNOVATION IN PENNSYLVANIA
 Increased Basic Education Funding
 $5.5 billion for Basic Education Funding to support local school
districts, the highest level of basic education funding in state
history. Includes a $90 million increase.
 Mandate Relief
 Provides school districts the ability to apply to the Department of
Education for a waiver from certain Public School Code
provisions. Expanded and streamlined version of the Mandate
Waiver program that was previously in effect from 2000 until
2010.
 Competency -Based Learning
 Initiatives to support school districts in offering alternative
pathways for students to fulfill course and graduation
requirements.
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12. EDUCATION INNOVATION IN PENNSYLVANIA
 Investments in Early Childhood Education
 Pre-K Counts – an increase of $4.5 million, or 5.4%, to serve 580
additional children in proven pre-kindergarten programs.
 Head Start Supplemental Assistance – an increase of $1.9 million, or
5.1%, to serve 210 additional children.
 Early Intervention – an increase of $5 million, or 2.3% to provide
services to 1,500 additional children from ages 3 through 5.
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13. EDUCATION INNOVATION IN PENNSYLVANIA
 Higher Education
 Maintains level funding for the State System of Higher
Education, State Related Universities, Community Colleges, as
well as Thaddeus Stevens and Pennsylvania Colleges of
Technology.
 Maintains level funding for Grants to Students and PHEAA to
supplement level funding of grants to students by $75 million.
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14. HUMAN SERVICES AND
HEALTH CARE
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15. EXPANDED SERVICES FOR OLDER
PENNSYLVANIANS
$ 5 . 7 b i l l i o n i n to t a l fu n d s to p rov i d e L o n g -Te rm C a re s e r v i c e s to
p e r s o n s wi t h d i s a b i l i t i e s a n d o l d e r P e n n s y l v a nia ns
$50 million Initial Investment from Lotter y PMA
 $20 million to provide home and community -based
services to 5,400 individuals currently on the OPTIONS
waiting list
 $21 million growth in MA Home and Community -Based
Waiver program, including services for 1 ,550 older
Pennsylvanians.
 $5 million to increase support for the Area Agencies on
Aging.
 $2 million to provide attendant care services for 193
individuals.
 $2 million to modernize senior center facilities and
programs
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16. EXPANDED SERVICES FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH
DISABILITIES
 $1 8.5 million to provide home and community -based ser vices
for 1 ,080 individuals with intellectual disabilities, including
380 people on the waiting list and 700 students graduating
from Special Education.
 $15.8 million to provide home and community -based ser vices
for 1 ,280 additional individuals with disabilities through
several Medicaid waiver programs.
 $4.7 million to provide home and community -based ser vices
for 90 individuals currently residing in state mental hospitals
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17. EXPANDED SERVICES FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH
DISABILITIES
 $4.1 million to provide attendant care ser vices for 400
additional individuals with disabilities.
 $1 .4 million to provide home and community -based ser vices
for 100 individuals currently residing in state intellectual
disabilities center s .
 $1 .5 million to provide home and community -based ser vices
to 11 8 adults with autism spectrum disorder s.
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18. INCREASED ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE
 $8.5 million to provide Children‟s Health Insurance program
coverage for and additional 9,330 children anticipated to be
enrolled through expanded outreach ef forts.
 $4 million to provide community -based health care subsidies
for health care clinics serving the uninsured or in
underserved areas of the state.
 $1 million to provide an additional 24 awards of loan
repayment to health care professionals committed to working
in underserved areas of the state and slots in primary care
hospitals
 $3.4 million savings from modernizing the state health care
centers through increased staf f mobility into underserved
areas and greater use of technology.
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19. HUMAN SERVICES
 Expand Human Ser vices Block Grant from 20-county pilot to statewide by
allowing additional counties to par ticipate in the block grant on a
voluntar y basis.
 Reinvest $7.1 m illion in administrative savings from the consolidation of
the child care information ser vice agencies to provide subsidized child
care for 1 ,400 additional children and families.
 $3 m illion increase for Rising Star s initiative to improve the quality of
child care ser vices.
 $1 .3 m illion increase to expand Domestic Violence programs and
ser vices.
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20. HUMAN SERVICES
 $700,000 increase to expand Rape Crisis programs and
ser vices.
 $8.3 million savings from implementing a cost sharing
requirement for families with children enrolled in the Medicaid
Special Needs program.
 $1 2.7 million in savings from the closure of the New Castle
Youth Development Center, with $10 million to be reinvested
through the Juvenile Justice Reinvestment Initiative.
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21. 2012 NON PROFIT BUDGET SURVEY
In late 2012, United Way of
Pennsylvania conducted a
survey of over 800 nonprofits
across the Commonwealth
which provides a snapshot of
conditions for Pennsylvania‟s
human services and most
vulnerable people.
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22. 2012 Non Profit Budget
Survey
Results include:
• 69% of agencies received a
funding cut in 2012-13
state budget.
• 76% of agencies report
conditions related to the
economy have increased
demand for services.
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23. 2012 NON PROFIT BUDGET SURVEY
How have your non-governmental sources
of funds (ie: private foundation
grants, individual donations) changed in
the last 12 months?
Our non-governmental funding has
remained flat or decreased 67%
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24. 2011 NON PROFIT BUDGET SURVEY
Select all the ways the budget cuts this year (FY 12 -13) have
impacted your organization?
• We have laid of f staf f 51 %
• We have canceled programs completely 38 %
• We have cut back program hours 48%
• We have expanded our waiting list for services 47%
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25. RECENTLY IMPACTED STATE PROGRAMS
LEARN
Adult Basic
General Assistance
HEMAP
Housing Assistance
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26. In addition to state budget
reductions, significant numbers of
agencies also are dealing with
monetary reductions at the federal
level.
 49% of organizations that
received less federal funding in
FEDERAL
2012 compared to 2011 IMPACTS
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27. IMPACTS OF SEQUESTRATION
A partial listing of state programs that could be impacted and
dollar amounts, include:
 $43 million from Title I (education fund for poor kids);
 $33 million from Special Education;
 $19 million from WIC;
 $5.3 million from social services;
 $1 million from early intervention; and
 $2 million from community service block grants
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28. LACKAWANNA COUNT Y IMPACT
 We are scrambling to replace lost private funding for a variety
of services we of fer. Child care numbers are decreasing
because clients are having trouble af fording due to less
subsidies.
 What I foresee is a vicious cycle. The donors have less to
give, and the state has less to give. Therefore making it
harder on nonprofits to provide services for the lower income
population and making it harder to put a break in a
generational life cycle. My concern is that we are creating
generational poverty, by not providing the resources for our
youth to be in a position to have a better life than their
parents
 Our agency is doing more with less funding from the State.
We are using our own funds to "rob Peter to pay Paul".
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29. STATEWIDE IMPACT
 We have closed several programs, laid of f staf f, and
restructured services, there are longer waiting lists for
services except crisis services where we can never have a
„waiting list‟
 We are not able to serve as many youth and single mothers
and other individuals because of staf f and operational
resources. We have to be much more creative and better
stewards of all resources. Human services is a process where
we help people to empower themselves to become more self -
suf ficient.
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30. STATEWIDE IMPACT
 Homeless shelters have cut hours. Mothers with children have
to leave the shelter during the day. Most have nowhere to go
but hang out on the street until the shelter opens up in the
evening.
 We are a safe place for our members to be and we can longer
provide that on evenings and weekends as we did in the past.
This adds to isolation and depression and need for crisis
intervention services.
 Public housing residents who have lost their General
Assistance benefit moved out of public housing, presumably
to a state of homelessness, due to lack of funds to pay the
minimum rent requirement
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31. UNITED WAY
OF
PENNSYLVANIA
Budget Principles
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32. UNITED WAY BUDGET PRINCIPLES
 To t h e g r e a te s t ex te n t p o s s i b l e , av o i d s i g n i fi ca n t c u t s to b e n e f i t s a n d
s e r v i c e s to o u r m o s t v u l n e r a b le Pe n n s y l v a ni a n s : p o o r i n d i v i d ual s a n d
f a m i l ie s , p r e g n a n t w o m e n a n d yo u n g c h i l d r e n , l o w i n c o m e e l d e r l y,
i n d i v i d ua l s w i t h d i s a b i l i t ie s , a n d v ete r a n s .
 P r o te c t f u n d i n g f o r p r ev e n t i o n s e r v i c e s t h a t s av e m o r e ex p e n s i v e
i n te r ve n t i o n s l a te r o n .
 C o n s i d e r t h e s t a te ‟ s ex i s t i n g i nv e s t m e n t i n s u c c e s s f ul p r o g r am s s u c h a s
i n d u s t r y p a r t n e r s h i p s , w h i c h c o m b i n e p u b l i c a n d p r i va te m o n ey to ke e p
Pe n n s y l v a ni a b u s i n e s s c o m p et i t i ve , w h i l e e n h a n c i n g t r a i n i n g a n d c a r e e r
p a t h w ay o p p o r t un i t i e s f o r Pe n n s y l v a n i a ‟s w o r k f o rc e .
 U t i l iz e c o m p l ete d ev a l u a t i o n s o r o t h e r m e a s u r e m e n t s to d ete r m i n e w h e r e
to m a ke c u t s .
 C o n s i d e r w ay s i n w h i c h t h e s t a te c a n m o r e e f f i c i e n t l y a n d e f f e c t iv el y
d e l i v e r s e r v i c e s , s u c h a s b y r e d u c i n g t h e v a s t a r r ay o f s t a te 8 0 0 n u m b e r s ,
p a r t i c ula r l y t h o s e t h a t a r e c o n t r ac te d w i t h o u t o f s t a te p r o v i d e r s , a n d
supporting those ser vices with 2 -1-1 .
 C o n s i s te n t w i t h c o m m i t me n t to a n o n - t i m e b u d g et , p r o v i de b u d g et l a n g uag e
to e n s u r e t h a t l o c al g o v e r n m e n t s a n d p r o v i d e r s r e c e i ve t i m e l y a l l o c a t i o n s
a n d d i r e c t i o n f r o m t h e C o m m o nwe al t h s o t h a t t h e r e i s a p r e d i c t a b le a n d
s t a b l e c yc l e o f s e r v i c e s p r o v i s i o n .
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33. UWP BUDGET TOUR DATES
M a r c h 1 2 – N o r t h Pe n n U n i te d
Way
M a r c h 1 4 – U n i te d Way o f
Susquehanna County
M a r c h 2 5 – U n i te d Way o f
L a c kaw a n n a & Way n e C o u n t i e s
M a r c h 27 – U n i te d Way o f
Monroe County
M a r c h 2 8 – U n i te d Way o f t h e
G r e a te r L e h i g h Va l l ey
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34. CONTACT INFORMATION
United Way of Pennsylvania
909 Green Street
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17102
Phone: (717)238.7365
Fax: (717)238.7414
www.uwp.org
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