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

by The Alliance for Rights and Recovery

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 about the

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
Empire State Plaza Convention Center
(Note New Location)

NYAPRS 2022 State Advocacy Agenda

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

    1. 750 more Housing First supportive housing units

    2. 4 new local INSET peer outreach and engagement programs

    3. 6 local Hospital-to-Community Transitional Peer Bridger Programs for improved hospital discharge planning and follow up

    4. A Comprehensive Crisis Stabilization, Respite and Recovery Continuum

    5. Mental Health/EMT First Responder Alternatives

  2. Support Funding Increases for Community Based Behavioral Health Services

    1. 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

    2. Approve $500 million Investment in Behavioral Health Services (see attachment) and approve reinvestment of $111 million in Unspent Managed Care Behavioral Health Dollars

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

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

  4. Criminal Justice Reforms

    1. Pass Clean Slate (S1553C/A6399C)

    2. Pass Treatment not Jails (S2881B/A8524A)

  5. Adult Home Residents

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

    2. $250,000 to fund the only Adult Home Resident Advocacy group, the Coalition for the Institutionalized, Aged and Disabled (CIAD).

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

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NYAPRS 23rd Annual Legislative Day Program
March 10, 2022
Empire State Plaza Convention Center (New Location)

Program Schedule

  9:30 am           Breakfast Eileen Crosby, NYAPRS

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

10:05 am           NYAPRS 20221-2023 NYS Public Policy Priorities

Expand Successful Voluntary Engagement and Support Innovations

Reject Expansion of Kendra’s Law

  • INSET, Ruthanne Becker, participant MHA of Westchester

  • Recovery and Respite Center, Shannon Higbee, Recovery Options Made Easy Buffalo, NY

  • Hospital to Community Transition Peer Bridger Services, Ellen Healion, Len Statham

  • Peer/EMT First Responders Christina Sparrock, Ruth Lowenkron

  • Housing First: TBA

$500 Million Investment in Community Based Behavioral Health Services

  • Glenn Liebman, MHANYS

Criminal Justice Reforms

  • Pass Clean Slate Garrett Smith, 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 Geoff Lieberman, CIAD

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

  • Senator Samra Brouk, Senate Mental Health Committee Chair

11:45 am LUNCH

12:15 pm   News Conference/March at the Capital

1:15 pm     Face to Face Meetings/ Zoom Calls with Legislators and/or Staff

3:00 pm     Return Home

The New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation services is a state and national change agent dedicated to improving services, public policies and social conditions for people with mental health, substance use and trauma-related challenges, by promoting health, wellness, rights and recovery, with full community inclusion, so that all may achieve maximum potential in communities of choice.
Contact CEO Harvey Rosenthal at harveyr@nyaprs.org for more information.
www.nyaprs.org