On Monday April 19, 7 p.m. NYC FAIR will host a virtual town hall meeting on Moving from School To Adult Services. This will be a forum to hear from those who help on the transition and those who have made it safely to the...
New York’s special education preschool 4410 and school age 853 programs are in trouble! Our schools serve children with disabilities whose local public school district cannot provide a free and appropriate public education as required by law. In this year’s budget, school aid funding was increased by...
Governor Cuomo issued a press release this afternoon to announce expanded eligibility for the COVID-19 vaccine and vaccination distribution statistics as of 11:00 a.m. The Governor also issued a press release providing an overview of New York’s COVID-19 tracking data from Sunday, March 28. Expansion of...
CP State is proud to offer "Teena's Trunk," a series on Individual Advocacy presented by Teena Fitzroy. Teena is a wife, mother of three, and grandmother of six, who just also happens to have cerebral palsy. "Teena's Trunk" poignantly recounts Teena Fitzroy's often funny, sometimes heart-breaking, personal...
The NYDA virtual rally for Care, Not Cuts drew 1,000 supporters, including many politicians, family members and self-advocates. You can watch the video here, or check out coverage of the rally: WKBW: Advocates push for cost of living increases for caregivers for people with disabilities WIVB: Advocates...
U.S. Rep. John Katko is leading a bipartisan national effort urging the CDC to expand vaccine eligibility to people with I/DD and DSPs, specifically citing data collected by CP State and its partners in New York Disability Advocates. "While New York State recently took action to...
BUDGET COMPARISON CHART Governor’s Budget Senate On-House Assembly One-House Final Budget TOTAL BUDGET Proposes all funds receipts of $192.8 billion The Senate has not, at this time, proposed a Fiscal Plan outlining All Fund Spending changes or All Funds Revenue Estimates. Proposes All Funds receipts of $206.2 billion, an increase of...
Funded by a $440,000 grant from The Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, Cerebral Palsy Association of New York State will establish a best-practices training program for clinicians to ensure healthcare equity for people with disabilities. “The unique characteristics and needs of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities...
Today’s Governor Cuomo Press Briefing took place at the State Capitol. The Governor was joined by: · Melissa DeRosa, Secretary to the Governor; · Robert Mujica, Budget Director; · Dr. Howard Zucker, NYS Department of Health Commissioner; · Elizabeth Garvey, Special Counsel and Senior Advisor to the Governor; and · Gareth Rhodes, Deputy Superintendent & Special...
CP State and our colleagues (Alliance of Long Island Agencies/ALIA, Developmental Disabilities Alliance of Western New York/DDAWNY, Interagency Council/IAC and the NY Association of Emerging and Multicultural Providers/NYAEMP) will be conducting our annual Legislative Advocacy Days virtually during the weeks of February 22 and March 1. We will...