In the Loop
Keeping pace with the world of Disability, one blog post at a time
Federal RIF Threatens Essential Disability Protections, Services
These layoffs reverse decades of progress in disability rights and put the health, stability, and welfare of millions at risk.
Click/copy the link below to tell the White House that you oppose these RIFs and demand that essential positions be restored immediately.
https://aapd.quorum.us/campaign/144743/?utm_source=Main+AAPD+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=b3877092ba-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_10_15_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-afb89cbdef-4877585
Participants Needed for Health-Related Needs Survey
Please consider supporting the work of our colleagues from the School of Health Sciences at Hofstra University by sharing your opinions about health-related needs on Long Island. If you would like to fill out the survey, any information you share will not be shared...
You’re Invited: Share Your Voice in New York’s Olmstead Listening Sessions
Via Olmstead Plan NY:
New York State is working on a new Olmstead Plan — a plan that helps make sure people with disabilities can live in the community they choose, with the support they need.
To help shape this work, we’re hosting nine virtual listening sessions, and we want to hear from you.
Medicaid Matters New York Condemns Passage of Rushed, Inhumane Federal Budget Reconciliation Bill
July 3, 2025 – A budget is a moral document, creating the framework for how a government will provide public services. H.R. 1, which Republican leaders have dubbed “beautiful,” is anything but beautiful for people with low income and people with disabilities who need health coverage. It will strip affordable health insurance coverage away from millions of Americans who don’t have other coverage, including 1.5 million people here in New York.
Sign up for Barnard College Disability Benefits Research Study
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.
Nassau Aviators Want You For Summer Sports!
Looking for a new sport for summer? Join our friends from Aviators of Nassau County Wheelchair Softball for fun opportunities in softball and a variety of other sports. Check out the deets:
Beginning May 1, 2023
Mondays @ 5:30 pm
Eisenhower Park, East Meadow
Parking Field 4
LICIL to Host Comedy Night Fundraiser
Join the Long Island Center for ndependent Living, Inc for our Spring Comedy Night Fundraiser! Get ready to meet old friends, make new ones and share laughs and good times for a great cause! Place: GOVERNOR’S Of Levittown -- 90 Division Ave., Levittown, NY 11756 Date:...
Nassau PWD: Share Your Point of View On Accessibility at UBS Arena Transit Hub!
PWD in Nassau County: Share Your Point of View On Accessibility at UBS Arena Transit Hub!
To participate, contact Ken Thompson — kthompson@easterseals.com.
LICIL Partners with Stony Brook and BLG to Offer Accessible Mobile Mammography
ACCESSIBLE Mobile Mammography Van for Breast Cancer Screenings
Brought to you by the Long Island Center for Independent Living, Inc. (LICIL) and the Bell Law Group
Presidential Debates 2020: Stay Informed and VOTE!
Presidential Debate happens tonight @ 9 PM ET.
American Association of People with Disabilities
provides helpful background here.
#RevUp and #CripTheVote
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