3/20/20
A Message from the Deputy:
For all home and community based service and intermediate care facility providers offering services funded or administered through the Office of Developmental Programs, please note that you are considered life-sustaining and are therefore exempt from the Governor’s directive asking for the closure of all non-essential businesses. Home and community based service and intermediate care facility providers offer services that maintain basic health and safety requirements in a multitude of essential ways and those providers are expected to continue offering those services through the COVID-19 crisis period.
Thank you for all of your valuable and life-sustaining work and for your commitment to serving Pennsylvanians with intellectual disabilities and autism.
Kristin Ahrens | Deputy Secretary
PA Department of Human Services | Office of Developmental Programs
625 Forster Street Room 502 | Harrisburg PA 17120
Phone: 717.787.3700
www.dhs.pa.gov www.myodp.org
Supporting Pennsylvanians with developmental disabilities and their families to achieve greater independence, choice, and opportunity in their lives.