An Executive Office of Health and Human Services report found that two decades of neglect and lack of funding have imperiled the human services provider industry and put the industry “at risk”.  

The state’s outdated procurement system has not changed to reflect the escalating costs of providing care.  This neglect has placed the industry near bankruptcy, created high turnover among caregivers of our children, seniors and people with disabilities, and produced a lack of continuity of care.

Serving nearly 1 million people, the human services industry is an important economic engine that is in peril:

Modernize the human services system
Senate bill 65 will modernize the outdated procurement system of the Commonwealth’s human services industry. This legislation will reform decades-old funding systems to more appropriately reimburse human service providers for the care they provide.