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What Do These Maps Look Like & What Do They Entail?
Providers associations have worked together as NYDA to create maps of OPWDD non-profit provider services in each individual Assembly and Senate district. These district maps outline where residences, day programs, clinics, and administrative offices are located for all non-profit providers in each legislator’s district.
What Can You Do To Enhance & Individualize the Mapping?
The tool will be made even more powerful if you enhance these district maps by including a separate document that includes individualized agency information about:
- The number of people with disabilities your provider organization supports,
- How many staff your provider organization employs, and
- Other important details about your organization’s impact in that Assemblymember’s/Senator’s district.
What Makes the Mapping Tool So Powerful?
Such information carries a significant amount of weight with the State Legislature especially individual legislators. Your agency-specific information is useful for legislators as it indicates:
- The number of people within your agency that they represent (which also translates into votes on Election Day),
- The status of your organization as an employer in your locality and economic driver,
- The fact that your organization is a major purchaser of goods and services in your community and/or communities.
NYDA and Provider Association’s will use regional and statewide maps when meeting with key decision makers in the State Legislature including, but not limited to Assembly Ways and Means staff, Senate Finance staff and program staff in both the Assembly Speaker’s Office and Senate Majority Leader’s Office.
If you have any questions about the district mapping or seek assistance creating your individual district informational materials, please contact Michael Seereiter (mseereiter@nyalliance.org), Katie Mayo (kmayo@nyalliance.org) or Mike Lawler (mlawler@nyalliance.org).
When your organization creates individualized district information materials to add to the district maps, please email a copy to the NY Alliance at nyaii@nyalliance.org.
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