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The CPA is now CPAL, The Community Provider Association of Louisiana!
Our Mission
Our Mission
We are Louisiana's leading trade association for disability service organizations. Our mission is to secure necessary public funding and to pursue initiatives through advocacy, collaboration and education.
CPAL Day at the Capitol 2025
CPAL Day at the Capitol 2025
We had a great Day at the Capitol this year! Follow on Social for more Updates!
We had a great Day at the Capitol this year! Follow on Social for more Updates!
A Message from the Executive Director:
A Message from the Executive Director:
Dear Friends,2024 was a milestone year for the Community Provider Association of Louisiana as we celebrated the 10th anniversary of our founding! We marked this occasion with a very special celebration in Baton Rouge in November that included past and current members and staff, our community partners, and leaders from the Louisiana Legislature and the Louisiana Department of Health. We were proud to be able to reflect on how much the association has accomplished since 2014 and also look ahead to the continuing work in front of us. Please be sure to check out our special feature on this event later in this report.This year was one of continued growth and success for CPAL. We welcomed three new members and two new community partners and celebrated big wins at the legislature, including an additional $53M in appropriations for disability services during this year’s legislative session. CPAL also made progress on many important issues with LDH, most notably the launch of much-needed rate methodology updates for HCBS and ICFs. Stagnant and inadequate reimbursement rates, and the resulting workforce crisis, are the most significant threats to the stability of our disability services system in Louisiana. The development of updated rate methodologies is a critical step in ensuring that CPAL members and other disability service organizations can continue to provide quality services in the coming years.This year we also continued to cultivate and celebrate another very important but less tangible or quantifiable achievement of CPAL: the community that our members have built over the last decade. This community of members is always ready to help one other in big ways and small ways. Our industry continues to have challenges on many fronts, but we have the right community and the right partners to meet those challenges.I’m looking forward to continuing this work with you in 2025 and beyond. Cheers to the next 10 years!Sincerely,Caroline Meehan, Executive Director
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