NYAIL Newsletter, March 2022

NYAIL News 2022, Issue 3

Advocacy Updates

In February, NYAIL co-hosted our annual budget advocacy day with the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Association of New York. We are very happy to be sharing several supportive messages from the Senate and Assembly. A recording is now available if you weren't able to attend.

Fair Pay for Home Care remains a key issue in independent living, with impacts statewide. The Caring Majority, of which NYAIL is a member, is asking people to share their stories and take one action to help out every day this month.

NYAIL and CDPAANYS Budget Advocacy Day 2022

NYAIL's 2022 Budget

Disability Priority Agenda (PDF)

NYAIL's 2022 Legislative

Disability Priority Agenda (PDF)

NYAIL 2022 Webinar Series

An Overview of Kendra's Law

NYAIL's 2022 Webinar Series continues this month with the generous support of Waymo. Join us on March 22nd from 10 to 11:30 a.m. for our webinar on Kendra's Law. Free advance registration is required for each of our Zoom webinars. There will be ASL and CART for this webinar.

This webinar will be presented by Harvey Rosenthal, Chief Executive Officer of the New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services (NYAPRS).

Thank you to our NYAIL 2022 Webinar Series sponsor Waymo!

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to get where they’re going. We believe that fully autonomous technology holds the promise to improve road safety and offer new mobility options to millions of people. This is why we're designing the Waymo Driver, our autonomous technology, to give people a new kind of freedom – to go where they want, when they want, while making the frustrations and concerns with driving a thing of the past.

New Recordings Available

The Long Term Care Ombudsman and Resident Rights in New York - NYAIL Webinar Series

Webinar recordings and presentation materials are added to the Training and Education section of our website under 2022 Webinar Series.

A recording of February's webinar "Long Term Care Ombudsman Program and Residents Rights" is now available on our website.

This year, Not Dead Yet, Aging NY, and NYAIL hosted a virtual Disability Day of Mourning (DDoM) event for New York on March 1st. The event featured several speakers and the reading of names of those lost to filicide, people with disabilities that have been murdered by those entrusted with their care. You can watch a recording here.

NYSILC Hall of Fame

The New York State Independent Living Council (NYSILC) is excited to announce that tickets are officially on sale for the 2022 New York State Disability Rights Hall of Fame.

This year they will be inducting five new members into the New York Disability Rights Hall of Fame during a hybrid in-person and virtual event on May 12th, 2022. The 2022 inductees are Bernard Carabello, Susan Dooha, Judith Heumann, Sally Johnston, and Janice Lintz.

For more information and to buy tickets for the virtual or in-person event, visit: https://nysilc.org/hof

The New York Association on Independent Living administers several statewide and regional programs in collaboration with its member ILCs, all of which are focused on helping people with disabilities live independently in the community.

Learn more about NYAIL programs by visiting: ilny.us/programs