NYAPRS March 10 Legislative Day Moved to Convention Center; Finalized Book and Program Schedule; Bus Update

NYAPRS Note: Several updates:

• Please find the finalized version of our Annual Legislative Day priorities and program. You’ll find several additional pages (4-9) which include a lot more detail about the voluntary alternatives to Kendra’s Law that we simply named in the original version.

• Please feel free to send it to your legislators and/or staff, to help guide your virtual or face to face meetings with your legislators.

• We’ve moved the site from the Well to the Convention Center due to COVID concerns. The Convention Center is right next to the Egg where we have long held our Legislative Day and where we’ll have a typical program schedule for the day. Our marshals will be there to help you get around, including to the March.

• See the program schedule times about issue presentations, featured speakers, news conference, march and times for you to schedule your meetings with you legislators. Make you appointments now if you haven’t already.

• We are working with groups on Long Island and Western NY and are hoping we can identify groups from the North Country and NYC. Look for more details from Eileen and Len in the next day. Some of you are coming by van or bus. We can help pay for a large bus. Contact Eileen at eileenc@nyaprs.org if you have questions or whether you need or can provide transportation.

Please feel free to send comments or questions about policy position related pages to me at harveyr@nyaprs.org.

Thank you!!! 
Harvey

NYAPRS BUDGET AND LEGISLATIVE AGENDA
FY 2022-23

NYAPRS 23rd Annual Legislative Day
March 10, 2021

Meeting Rooms 2-3 Empire State Plaza
New Location for this year

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NYAPRS 2022 State Advocacy Agenda

1. Reject Expansion of Kendra’s Law: Expand Successful Voluntary Engagement and Support Innovations

   • Support $35 million to launch 9-8-8 Mental Health Hotline

   • $2 million for 4 new local INSET peer outreach and engagement programs

   • Fund Mental Health/EMT First Responder Alternatives

   • Expand the Comprehensive Crisis Stabilization, Respite and Recovery Continuum

   • $5 million for 6 local Hospital-to-Community Transitional Peer Bridger

programs for improved hospital discharge planning and follow up

• Support $21 million for 20 Safe Options Support (SOS) Teams

• Allocate $50 million for 1,000 Pathways Housing First supportive housing beds with mobile mental health team

1. Support Funding Increases for Community Based Behavioral Health Services

   • Approve 5.4% COLA and include Health Home Care Management and OTDA Supportive Housing programs, workforce bonuses and remove the “sunset” revision to help ensure that COLAs will be included in all future budgets

   • Approve $500 million Investment in Behavioral Health Services and approve reinvestment of $111 million in Unspent Managed Care Behavioral Health Dollars

   • Re-bid MCO Contracts that Administer Behavioral Health Services Carved into Medicaid Managed Care

2. Support Housing Increase of $104 Million over 2 Years

3. Criminal Justice Reforms

   • Pass Clean Slate (S1553C/A6399C)

   • Pass Treatment not Jails (S2881B/A8524A)

4. Adult Home Residents

   • Strengthen Enforcement of Adult Home Residents’ Safety and Freedom from Abuse (A.196A/S.1576A)

   • $250,000 to fund the only Adult Home Resident Advocacy group, the Coalition for the Institutionalized, Aged and Disabled (CIAD).

5. Pass Maternal Mental Health Bills S.7865, S.7753, S.7752

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Program Schedule

 9:30 am    Breakfast Eileen Crosby, NYAPRS

 10:00 am Welcome Comments   Harvey Rosenthal, Len Statham NYAPRS

 10:05 am NYAPRS 2022-2023 Public Policy Priorities Presentations

 Expand Successful Voluntary Engagement and Support Innovations: Reject Kendra’s Law Expansion

• Support 9-8-8 Crisis Mental Health Crisis Hotline

• $2 million for 4 new local INSET peer outreach and engagement programs Ruthanne Becker, Mental Health Association of Westchester

• Mental Health/EMT First Responder Alternatives Ruth Lowenkron, CCIT-NYC; Christina Sparrock, Fountain House, CCIT-NYC

• Expand the Comprehensive Crisis Stabilization, Respite and Recovery Continuum Shannon Higbee, Recovery Options Made Easy Buffalo, NY

• $5 million for 6 local Hospital-to-Community Transitional Peer Bridger programs for improved hospital discharge planning and follow up   Harvey Rosenthal, NYAPRS

• Support $21 million for 20 Safe Options Support (SOS) Teams Harvey

• Allocate $50 million for 1,000 Pathways Housing First supportive housing beds with mobile mental health teams Sebrina Barrett, ACL

$500 Million Investment in Community Based Behavioral Health Services

• Glenn Liebman, CEO, MHANYS

Support Housing Increase of $104 Million over 2 Years

• Sebrina Barrett, CEO, Association for Community Living

Criminal Justice Reforms

• Pass Clean Slate, TBA Center for Community Alternatives

• Pass Treatment not Jails Marco Barrrio, Urban Justice Center

Adult Home Residents Advocacy

• Strengthen Enforcement of Adult Home Residents’ Safety and Freedom from Abuse; Fund Adult Home Resident Advocacy Harvey Rosenthal, NYAPRS

Pass Maternal Mental Health Bills

11:05 am           FEATURED SPEAKERS

• Jihoon Kim, Deputy Secretary for Human Services and Mental Hygiene

• Dr. Ann Sullivan, Commissioner, NYS Office of Mental Health

• Assembly Member Aileen Gunther, Assembly Mental Health Committee Chair

• Ernesto Porcari, Legislative Director and Counsel for Senate Mental Health Committee Chair Samra Brouk

11:45 am          LUNCH

12:15 pm  News Conference: Meeting Rooms 2-3

1:00 pm    March at the Capital

1:30 pm    Face to Face Meetings/ Zoom Calls with Legislators and/or Staff

3:00 pm    Return Home

THANK YOU FOR STANDING UP FOR RECOVERY, RIGHTS, COMMUNITY,
RACIAL EQUITY & CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM!