Rural communities are forced to grapple with significant policy changes to social service programs at the state and federal levels. An organization in southern Indiana is bringing people together around a shared mission — that they deserve better.
Everyone had their own reason for being in Friendship Park on Main Street in Mitchell, Indiana.
A mother shared how Indiana’s Applied Behavioral Analysis therapy cuts would affect her and her family. An Army veteran held a poster that explained her presence was something she felt fell under her oath to serve the American people. Someone else carried a sign telling the U.S. representatives and senators for Indiana that they represent all of Indiana, “not just the 1 percent.”