Update: Reeve Foundation Applauds House and Senate Committees for Safeguarding Critical Resources for the Paralysis Community
This week, the House Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee approved a bill that, like the bipartisan Senate version approved earlier this summer, includes full funding for the National Paralysis Resource Center (NPRC) in Fiscal Year 2026. This is an important step toward protecting critical resources for people living with paralysis, their families and caregivers. This progress is made possible by the powerful advocacy of the Reeve Foundation community, and by longstanding bipartisan supporters of the program in Congress.
The NPRC has been central to longstanding efforts to improve health, independence, and dignity for millions. It connects people to services and resources and to hope, possibility, and a future. Its cost-effectiveness is one of the reasons it’s earned bipartisan support year after year. Ending it now, as proposed in the President’s FY26 budget, would reverse decades of progress and put lives at risk, especially given the scarcity of alternatives to the Reeve Foundation’s nationwide network of resources and support that works across states to ensure coordinated care.
Congress has the power to ensure the NPRC’s future. As lawmakers work to finalize the FY26 appropriations process, we urge them to maintain full funding of $10.7 million for the NPRC, and we call on advocates to keep speaking out to protect this lifesaving resource.
Take ActionUpdate: Reeve Foundation Applauds U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee Markup of the 2026 Labor-H Appropriations Bill
The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation welcomes the Senate Appropriations Committee’s decision (on July 31, 2025) to maintain level funding for the National Paralysis Resource Center in Fiscal Year (FY) 2026, recognizing its vital role in promoting independence and quality of life for more than five million Americans living with paralysis and their families. It also reaffirms a general point of consensus among experts and advocates alike: paralysis supports and services that are person-centered, competency-based, data-informed, and peer-led remain the most reliable pathways to consistently strong outcomes across the disability community. The Reeve Foundation has, year after year, stood as the national leader in delivering paralysis-specific services that reflect this approach.
Read MorePresident’s Budget Proposal Turns Its Back on Americans Living with Paralysis and Other Disabilities
Paralysis changes lives in an instant. A car crash, a stroke, a tackle on the football field — and suddenly, everything is different. In those first terrifying days and throughout the long road ahead, thousands of Americans have turned to one place: the National Paralysis Resource Center (NPRC). Now, that lifeline is at risk of being cut.
The President’s budget proposal released on May 30 calls for the complete elimination of the National Paralysis Resource Center, along with other vital programs serving people living with disabilities. If Congress adopts this proposal, it will dismantle the only national resource dedicated entirely to supporting people living with paralysis.
For more than 20 years, the National Paralysis Resource Center has helped individuals and families find their footing after injury or diagnosis. From emergency rehab placement to housing adaptations, from peer mentoring to suicide prevention, it delivers life-changing and often lifesaving support to a growing community that includes people living with spinal cord injury (SCI), stroke survivors, and people living with ALS, MS, and many other conditions.
This program saves lives. And it is cost-effective. That’s why it’s earned bipartisan support year after year. Ending it now would not only halt decades of progress, it would put lives at risk.
Read the Full Statement
On Friday, May 30, the President’s Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Proposal was released and calls for the complete elimination of the Paralysis Resource Center (PRC), along with other cuts to vital programs serving people living with disabilities. While this news is deeply disconcerting, the President’s budget is only a recommendation. Ultimately, Congress holds the power to decide final funding levels each fiscal year.
If Congress were to adopt this proposal, it would cut off many of the essential services, information and supports that people living with paralysis need to live healthy, productive lives. This is simply unacceptable. It’s imperative we let Congress know they can’t ignore the voices of the paralysis community, and we will not stand idly by as the PRC and other lifesaving programs are dismantled from the federal budget.
Take ActionSend us a short video describing what the PRC means to you and what it would mean to lose it.
We need your voice now more than ever. As we work to protect FY26 funding for the Paralysis Resource Center (PRC), we’re collecting short, personal videos from advocates like you to help show members of Congress just how vital this resource is.
These stories will be shared with Congressional staff and may be used in social media and other outreach efforts to show the real impact of the PRC.
Submit Your VideoImage download instructions: Right-click on the image below to download it. Tag your members of Congress and @ReeveFoundation with #SaveThePRC.
