US officials visited a military base in Israel recently to observe and learn how that nation has successfully incorporated young men and women with assorted disabilities into military life on base.
Advocates will ask their elected officials in attendance to work with Governor Cuomo to secure funding to continue critical supports for people with developmental disabilities.
Judge tells the MTA it must install elevators in any New York City subway station that undergoes renovation.
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Several Brooklyn members of the NYS Legislature will be joined by the Senior Advisor to US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.
More than 2,000 women who work in New York’s non-profit human services sector signed an open letter to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo last week seeking a living wage.
“Accessibility is designed into everything today,” Lay-Flurrie says. “We need to make it part of the air that we breathe.”
Longtime CEO will leave Aspire of WNY in late July.
Even after a five year plan to add 50 elevators to subway stations, more than half the system’s stations will not accommodate people with disabilities.
These awards are part of $204 MILLION in funding to strengthen and preserve access to high-quality healthcare announced by governor Cuomo.
