Capitol Insider: OPWDD budget increases; providers shoulder cuts
Posted OnFebruary 15, 2021 byALBANY — Although the overall budget for the state Office for People With Developmental Disabilities is expected to increase nearly 3 percent, those who provide direct services to people with disabilities say the cuts are falling on them. The latest cuts add insult to injury to a sector that has not seen a cost-of-living increase…Read More…
Advocates Speak Out Against Cuts to Programs that Support People with Disabilities
Posted OnFebruary 11, 2021 byWIVB | Feb. 11, 2021Read More…
Rally Urging State Leaders to Make the I/DD Sector a Priority
Posted OnFebruary 11, 2021 byNews 12 Brooklyn | Feb. 11, 2021Read More…
Rally to Save Critical Services Statewide
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Pandemic Hit Developmental Disability Providers Hard, Advocates Say
Posted OnFebruary 8, 2021 byThe providers of non-profit services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in New York are once again pushing state officials to ensure programs are fully funded for the state’s most vulnerable residents. The push this year has taken on a greater degree of urgency, however, amid the COVID-19 pandemic as care providers have been…Read More…
Care providers, families shocked by funding cuts for New Yorkers with developmental disabilities
Posted OnFebruary 4, 2021 byALBANY — Family members and service providers supporting some of the most vulnerable New Yorkers say they were blindsided by a proposed $93 million cut to funding for New Yorkers with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Providers say the New York State Office for People with Developmental Disabilities alerted them to the reduction, described as an…Read More…
On the Ground, Local Officials in New York Say Vaccine Distribution Must Improve
Posted OnJanuary 22, 2021 byVaccinating 19 million or so New Yorkers was never going to be an easy task. States across the country have struggled with the rollout of the distribution to end the coronavirus pandemic. Supplies have lagged far behind demand. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has blamed the federal government for the supply bottleneck. New York is going “week to week”…Read More…
Disabled being ‘elbowed aside’ as doses shifted to mass-vaccination sites
Posted OnJanuary 21, 2021 byALBANY — Although the overall budget for the state Office for People With Developmental Disabilities is expected to increase nearly 3 percent, those who provide direct services to people with disabilities say the cuts are falling on them. The latest cuts add insult to injury to a sector that has not seen a cost-of-living increase…Read More…
Disability advocates urge Cuomo to reconsider budget cuts
Posted OnDecember 10, 2020 byDec 10, 2020 More than 1,000 people participated in a virtual statewide rally Wednesday calling on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to reconsider budget cuts for services for people living with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The New York State Office for People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) faces nearly half a billion dollars in funding cuts…Read More…
CUOMO PLANS MORE CUTS TO STATE’S OVERBURDENED GROUP HOMES
Posted OnDecember 10, 2020 byDec. 10, 2020 Following a decade of budget cuts, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office is proposing yet another round of slashes to service providers that care for New Yorkers with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the 2021 budget — a move that caregivers say will devastate them and the people they care for. In an effort…Read More…