The conferences are for provider agencies as well as individuals receiving services, families, peer advocates and other interested stakeholders .
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Under the new state budget, funding for direct support professionals will increase, but the budget does not include a cost of living adjustment for the organizations that are facing a staffing crisis because of a lack of funding from NYS.
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Among those coming up short in the budget are direct-care workers, who aren’t satisfied with pay levels for the work they do on behalf of the state with disabled, mentally ill and homeless people. The not-for-profit agencies that employ those workers were also denied their long-standing request for a cost-of-living adjustment in state payments for salaries and other expenses to provide the state’s direct-care services.
The Autism Center will house services that include education, art, and fitness programs.
The governor’s counsel, Alphonso David, told hundreds of people from around the state a rally in the Capitol that, …”The governor has made a decision that he won’t pass a budget without increasing the wages for direct care workers,”
Yhe de Blasio administration has agreed to survey and ensure that all of the city’s roughly 162,000 sidewalk curbs are accessible for New Yorkers with mobility and vision-impairment issues.
Assembly members on both sides of the aisle rallied in the Capitol on Wednesday morning to highlight their support for increased human services funding in the final budget deal due at the end of the month.
