Metro Community Health Centers is working with New York University at the new Oral Health Center for People With Disabilities at NYU to increase dental care for people with disabilities and provide training for dental students in how to treat people with disabilities.
NYS college engineering students collaborated with NYSID Member Agencies, including CP Unlimited, formerly CP of NYS Metro Services, to develop inventions that help improve the vocational lives of workers with disabilities.
CP Soccer is an organization that started in the New York metro area in September 2017 and now has five teams in New York City, New Jersey, the mid-Atlantic region, Houston and South Florida.
The conferences are for provider agencies as well as individuals receiving services, families, peer advocates and other interested stakeholders .
Special is a new TV show about to debut that is by, and about a man with CP.
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.
