Dating with Disabilities should be easier! Join Kathy O’Connell in this free webinar on Empowering People with Disabilities in Dating in Three Simple Steps. Learn how to simplify and enhance the dating experience for individuals with disabilities, all with just three straightforward steps. If you find the...
CP State is excited to be part of VoterVoice’s guide on enhancing advocacy with artificial intelligence. Bill DeVoe, director of communications and advocacy at CP State, is featured in the guide "AI for Grassroots Advocacy: The Complete ChatGPT How-To Guide," which details how AI can assist...
Now is the time we lay the foundation for next year's budget cycle. Let's start by making sure our elected representatives know we're not satisfied with the 2.84% cost-of-living-adjustment in the FY 2025 state budget. This is a far cry from what New Yorkers with disabilities need! Click...
Visit CP State at the New York State Assembly’s annual Legislative Disability Awareness Day (LDAD) on Wednesday, May 22! We’ll be in the Well of the Legislative Office Building in Albany from 10am to 2pm. LDAD is held annually to inform legislators, their staff, and others...
This is not what people with disabilities need. As the New York state budget drags itself to the finish line, we are seeing that the final Health and Mental Hygiene budget includes a 2.84% cost-of-living-adjustment, with a stipulation that agencies use some of those funds to...
Join us for valuable information and insights to help ensure disability service providers are running effective, efficient, high-quality programs! This conference is for: Corporate Compliance Officers; Corporate Compliance Committee Members; Quality Assurance Officers; Board Members; Executive Leadership WHEN: Tuesday, May 7, 2024, 9:00 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. (Check-in...
On April 3, New York Disability Advocates were joined by hundreds of members of the intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) community--including self-advocates, family members, and the essential workers who support them--and elected officials at the State Capitol to rally for permanent investments for the I/DD...
Lawmakers and advocates spoke in unison at the Capitol today, calling for a state budget agreement that includes meaningful reform of current practices utilized by the NYS Office of the Medicaid Inspector General (OMIG) when it audits healthcare agencies that provide essential services to New Yorkers with...
March 15, 2024, marks the 60th anniversary of the Home Service Program, funded by our amazing partners at the New York State Elks Association. As services for people with disabilities evolved over the decades following the Cerebral Palsy Association of NYS’ inception in 1946, it became...
Anne Richey, Chief Executive Officer of CP Association of the North Country and Community Health Center of the North Country, has announced her retirement after nearly 39 years of employment with the organization. “It has been my extreme honor and privilege to be part of...