–Gerry Hinson, Service Coordinator/Nursing Home Transition & Diversion Waiver Program As a Service Coordinator within a Medicaid Waiver program, I work for an Independent Living Center. Under this program’s rules, set by the DOH, each participating person with whom I… Read More »OPINION: INDEPENDENT LIVING – Still a Feasible Concept?
Okay its two days before Thanksgiving, I’m leaving at 1PM for the holiday, and I have tons of critical work to do. But the muse has struck me and I must write. THE TIMES THEY ARE A’CHANGIN? Here in Westchester,… Read More »Ramblings From The Executive Director, Mel Tanzman
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By Magdalena Klodnicka & Carole Conklin Are you satisfied with your life as it is today? What is your dream? No, don’t say it will never happen because… Just sit down and ask yourself a question: what is this one… Read More »LIVING YOUR DREAMS
As seen on: https://www.tapinto.net By BRIAN MARSCHHAUSER August 18, 2017 at 8:00 AM YORKTOWN, N.Y. – The Yorktown Town Board is using a lawsuit against the town as an opportunity to rejuvenate the Underhill Avenue corridor. In December 2016, Westchester… Read More »Yorktown Town Hall to be Renovated to Accommodate Handicapped Spaces
by, Mel Tanzman, Executive Director Recently, the Journal News the lower Hudson Valley’s newspaper of record had comprehensive coverage of the sexual offender civil confinement law for psychiatrically disabled individuals called “Connie’s Law”. It gave a quite balanced view of… Read More »Civil Confinement: A violation of Civil Rights
Event details August 3, 2017 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm 914-968-4717 LIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCES & RAFFLES at YONKERS BREWING Co. located at 92 Main Street in Yonkers! $25 Wristband Donation gets discount on select food and drinks For more info call 914-968-4717 Click… Read More »ROCK FOR DISABILITY RIGHTS FUNDRAISER
Written By: Melissa Lopez-Robles, B.B.A. – Housing Specialist A housing subsidy is a form of economic assistance sponsored by the government. It is aimed towards alleviating housing costs and expenses for needy people with very low or low to moderate… Read More »Housing Subsidies: Difficult to Impossible To Get
by Mel Tanzman, Executive Director These are the closing inspirational words to our Nation’s Pledge of Allegiance. However, as a disability and civil rights activist I know that those in power in our nation have not shown adequate allegiance to… Read More »INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL
By Yaw Appiadu, MPH [blockquote name=””]”I worked hard all my life and now the government is using that against me!”[/blockquote] I have heard comments like this many times before from those that come to me for help, their voices filled… Read More »“Systematic Lies” Improvising Poverty for Government Assistance