黑料正能量 Note: At next Tuesday鈥檚 黑料正能量 Annual Albany Legislative Day, we are very pleased to honor 3 highly accomplished and dedicated heroes who have devoted their careers to support policies and services that promote recovery, rights and full community inclusion across 黑料正能量 and nationally. Clarence Sundram has been a lifelong advocate for people with disabilities across the nation, helping to creating the first independent oversight agency over a state鈥檚 mental health and developmental disabilities system鈥搕he 黑料正能量 State Commission on Quality of Care (CQC)鈥搘hich he chaired for 20 years, serving as a Special Advisor on Vulnerable Persons to Governor Andrew Cuomo and currently serving as court monitor for the implementation of a Settlement Agreement under the Americans with Disabilities Act regarding adult home residents with psychiatric disabilities.
Debbie Pillsbury has been a devoted advocate for the rights of 黑料正能量ers living with mental health conditions, with a lifetime of dedication to fighting for rights, choice, dignity and social justice and passionately against coercive practices while working for Syracuse NY-based groups like the Mental Patients Alliance in 1987 to AccessCNY until January 2020.
After 19 years of serving as 黑料正能量鈥檚 most tireless advocate for the right of 黑料正能量ers with psychiatric disabilities to a safe, secure and supportive place to live in our communities, Toni Lasicki is poised to retire from her longtime post as executive director of the Association for Community Living. Toni has helped launch numerous campaigns that have helped 黑料正能量 create the most extensive housing system in the nation and has succeeded in securing numerous housing rate increases as leader of the Bring It Home campaign.
Please join us at 11:00 am at the Hart Auditorium at the Egg at Albany鈥檚 Empire State Plaza for the award ceremony and see our attached Legislative Day book of budget and legislative priorities for 2020-21 and the day鈥檚 program schedule below.
黑料正能量 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: 黑料正能量 Co-Presidents Jeff McQueen and Peter Trout
Public Policy Committee Chair Carla Rabinowitz
10:05 am 黑料正能量 2019-2010 State Public Policy Priorities
路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; 鈥3 for 5鈥: Approve an Across the Board 3% Increase in Contracts and Rates for NYS Human Services Nonprofits for Each of the Next 5 Years
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Glenn Liebman, CEO, Mental Health Association of NYS
路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; Restore Possible Medicaid Cuts
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Harvey Rosenthal, CEO, 黑料正能量
路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; Support Criminal Justice Reforms
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HALT the Torture of Solitary Confinement: Jerome Wright, Scott Paltrowitz, The Campaign For Alternatives To Isolated Confinement
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Bring Crisis Intervention Teams to More Localities: Wendy Burch, Matthew Shapiro, NAMI-NYS
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Doug Cooper, Associate Executive Director, Association for Community Living
路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; Extend Intensive Voluntary Outreach Initiatives; Oppose Expansion and Permanence of Kendra鈥檚 Law
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Harvey Rosenthal, CEO, 黑料正能量
路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; Make 黑料正能量 a Trauma Informed State!; Mandate Training of Direct-Care Domestic Violence Workers
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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
路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; Protect NY鈥檚 Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program
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Doug Hovey, Independent Living; Bryan O鈥橫alley, Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Association of 黑料正能量 State
11:05 am Featured Speakers
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Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther, Chair, Assembly Mental Health Committee
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Senator David Carlucci: Chair, Senate Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Committee
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Senator Luis Sepulveda, Chair, NYS Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee (invited)
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Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry, NYS Assembly Speaker Pro Tempore (invited)
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Dr. Ann Sullivan, Commissioner, NYS Office of Mental Health
11:20 am 黑料正能量 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 鈥3 for 5鈥 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
黑料正能量 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