Advocates: Proposed Budget Sets Disability Policy Back
By: Virginia Butler, YNN Rochester
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Posted on January 20, 2010
by Diane Coleman, Assistant Director of Advocacy
It’s all over the news: Governor Paterson’s 2010-11 Executive Budget for New York State was released on Tuesday, January 19, 2010.
There’s plenty of criticism from many vested interests and industries, but disability concerns are not yet on the public radar screen. As usual, CDR will work to change that.
The proposed budget includes a proposal that would set disability policy back thirty years. The Governor proposes that seniors and people with disabilities who need more than 12 hours of personal care services a day will be required to switch to another program, and all of the proposed programs don’t allow consumer direction of services and, moreover, don’t work for people with significant personal care needs. Read more in CDR’s first Media Release on the topic. Read more
Introducing CDR’s New Senior Counsel
Posted on January 4, 2010
By Dennis Boyd, Senior Counsel
I would like to introduce myself. I am Dennis Boyd, the newest member of the Advocacy Team at CDR and an attorney.
I started working on accessibility issues more than twelve years ago and disability benefits almost twenty years ago. This has had me in court, at administrative hearings, training consumers and providers, and thinking of ways to improve the way the laws protect the rights of people with disabilities. Read more
Posted on December 10, 2009
By Tim Barbato, Advocacy Intern
In July I went to an open house at Roberts Wesleyan College. After my experience at S.U.N.Y. Geneseo College, I was a little skeptical. There were many questions going through my head: Would I be able to get around? Would people understand my needs? Would they think I was crazy for even considering going to college, let alone here? Would they wonder if I was physically capable of pursuing my career choices? I wanted to talk to them about courses in Social Work, Criminal Justice and Religion and Humanities. After the lack of interest I was shown at S.U.N.Y. Geneseo, I had no idea what to expect. College was going to be harder than I thought. Read more
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