Apr 11, 2025
We need your help to protect vital services for people with disabilities and older adults. The Administration for Community Living (ACL) was created in response to the disability community’s efforts to improve services and supports, mitigate fragmentation, and increase coordination between programs. Now, efforts to dismantle ACL could undermine these critical services, putting many at risk.
Feb 26, 2025
You’re invited to come and get a behind-the-scenes look on what’s going on in Congress with the Republican extremist plan to cut healthcare to give even more money to the richest people on the planet. We’ll hear stories of how this will negatively impact New Yorkers if Republicans get their way, and how we are going to organize together to fight back. Join fellow activists, organizers, advocates and labor movement leaders from across NY for this must-attend event with Senator Chuck Schumer.
Feb 25, 2025
Whether Medicaid cuts come in the form of red tape such as work requirements and stricter eligibility rules, or caps and cuts to federal funding, the result is the same: any Medicaid cut will take away health and long-term care from older adults, people with disabilities, and their caregivers.
Feb 11, 2025
Join a study about people who live in New York and are “on disability”, led by undergraduate thesis student Myriam Joseph-Schilz (msj2155@barnard.edu). I’m looking to center people’s own narratives of their experiences with disability benefits programs, and the decisions they make through, after, and beyond their application processes, in order to highlight a perspective often overlooked in academic research.
Nov 15, 2023
Passing A.1926A./S.1683A would bring much-needed transparency and integrity to New York’s Medicaid LTC system and inspire new approaches to increase access to HCBS for all consumers who desire to live and receive care at home. Please contact Governor Hochul and tell her to sign A.1926.A/S.1683A today.
Apr 18, 2023
We are joining groups from across the state to demand that Governor Hochul not hold thousands of low wage workers’ wages hostage as she tries to demand cuts to home care and CDPA.