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���������� Note: ���������� is very pleased to release our attached Legislative Day book of budget and legislative priorities for 2020-21.

Please note that NEXT TUESDAY’s program begins at 10:00 am sharp. Great great thanks are due in advance to all of you who get up as early as 2 in the morning to travel as many as 5 hours to stand up for our community!

Here are some details:

• This year’s program will include the opportunity to

  • get your hat and let Albany know you expect their support for an Across the Board 3% increase for NYS Human Services Nonprofits for each of the next 5 years

  • some can also grab a hat on behalf of the Bring It Home campaign and/or

  • get a HALT Solitary Confinement T Shirt if you’re a march leader to end Torture in NY.

• Breakfast and lunch are available at no charge.

• If you haven’t yet made your appointments with your state legislators, please do so today. Find contact info for your State Senator at and your Assembly member at .

• See below for contact info for your regional bus contact.

• ���������� is very grateful to all of the agencies who are sponsoring and/or coordinating the buses: we’ll provide a full list next week.  

• Come help us honor the efforts of this year’s heroes Clarence Sundram, Debbie Pillsbury and Toni Lasicki.

• Please direct questions to Eileen at eileenc@nyaprs.org    See you next Tuesday!

���������� 23rd Annual Legislative Day Program
Tuesday, February 25, 2020   Hart Auditorium at The Egg, Albany, NY

Program Schedule

  9:30 am      Breakfast, Check-In   Hart Auditorium, The Egg

10:00 am      Welcome:   ���������� Co-Presidents Jeff McQueen and Peter Trout
Public Policy Committee Chair Carla Rabinowitz

10:05 am      ���������� 2019-2010 State Public Policy Priorities

·&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����; “3 for 5”: Approve an Across the Board 3% Increase in Contracts and Rates for NYS Human Services Nonprofits for Each of the Next 5 Years

• Glenn Liebman, CEO, Mental Health Association of NYS

·&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����; Restore Possible Medicaid Cuts

• Harvey Rosenthal, CEO, ����������

·&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����; Support Criminal Justice Reforms

• HALT the Torture of Solitary Confinement: Jerome Wright, Scott Paltrowitz, The Campaign For Alternatives To Isolated Confinement

• Bring Crisis Intervention Teams to More Localities: Wendy Burch, Matthew Shapiro, NAMI-NYS

·&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����; Bring It Home! Fund OMH Housing Rate Increases

• Doug Cooper, Associate Executive Director, Association for Community Living

·&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����; Extend Intensive Voluntary Outreach Initiatives; Oppose Expansion and Permanence of Kendra’s Law

• Harvey Rosenthal, CEO, ����������

·&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����; Make ���������� a Trauma Informed State!; Mandate Training of Direct-Care Domestic Violence Workers

• Dan Press, Campaign for Trauma-informed Policy and Practice; Sean Brennan, Brainfood Gardens; Kira Labinger from the NYC Trauma-Informed Learning Community and Michael Berry, Institute for Community Living

·&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����;&�Բ�����; Protect NY’s Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program 

• Doug Hovey, Independent Living; Bryan O’Malley, Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Association of ���������� State

11:05 am      Featured Speakers

• Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther, Chair, Assembly Mental Health Committee

• Senator David Carlucci: Chair, Senate Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Committee

• Senator Luis Sepulveda, Chair, NYS Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee (invited)

• Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry, NYS Assembly Speaker Pro Tempore (invited)

• Dr. Ann Sullivan, Commissioner, NYS Office of Mental Health

11:20 am   ���������� Annual Awards

Lifetime Achievement Awards: Debbie Pillsbury, Toni Lasicki
Public Policy Leadership Award: Clarence Sundram

11:40 am     Role Play of Legislative Advocacy Meetings

12:00 pm      Lunch

12:30 pm      “3 for 5’ News Conference

12:30 pm      Capital March for HALT Bill passage starting at the West Capitol Steps

  1:30 pm       MEET WITH STATE LEGISLATORS: SCHEDULE YOUR MEETINGS NOW!

4:00 pm       Re-group at Buses, Return Home 

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Contact Your Regional Bus Contact Today to Claim Your Seat on the Bus to Albany Next Tuesday!

Buffalo                               Daniel Neal                  716-433-1086                    dneal@communitymissions.org
Nassau County, LI          Jeff McQueen             631-464-5773                   jmcqueen@mhanc.org
Suffolk County, LI           Tiffany Monti                631-741-8547                      tmonti@fedoforg.org
North Country                 Brian Frederick            518-593-4390                   bfrederick609@gmail.com
���������� City                  Carla Rabinowitz         212-780-1400 x1102        crabinowitz@communityaccess.org
Rochester                         Veronica Weider          585-325-3145                    vweider@mharochester.org
Rockland                           Joe Zwieg                      845-708-2000 x2300      joe.zwieg@jawonio.org
Newburgh                        Doug Hovey                845-565-1162                    dhovey@myindependentliving.org
Southern Tier                   Kim Taro                     518-729-9054                    kimt@nyaprs.org
Syracuse                           Sherina Hinds               315-708-7237            shinds134@gmail.com
Westchester                     Dillon Browne              914-610-0370                    browned@mhawestchester.org