NYAPRS Note: Here’s the final schedule for tomorrow’s NYAPRS LegislativeDay in Albany. Please see below for parking information. See you
tomorrow!
NYAPRS 15th Annual Legislative Day Schedule
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Hart Auditorium The Egg Albany, NY
Program Schedule
9:30 am Breakfast, Check-In Hart Auditorium The Egg
10:00 am Welcome: NYAPRS Co-Presidents Maura Kelley, Steve
Coe
Public Policy Co-Chairs Carla Rabinowitz, Ray Schwartz
10:10 am Overview of the NYS Budget Harvey
Rosenthal
10:30 am Presentations on This Year’s Budget Priorities
1. Protect & Support the Community Mental Health Safety Net Ray
Schwartz
2. Reinvest Savings from State Hospital Downsizing Harvey Rosenthal
3. Enhance Medicaid Community Recovery Supports Harvey Rosenthal
4. Protect Medicaid Beneficiary Rights and Medication Access Carla
Rabinowitz
5. Serve New Yorkers with Psychiatric Disabilities in the Most
Integrated Community Settings
a. Housing: Steve Coe
b. Adult Home resident housing: Norman Bloomfield
c. Employment: Maura Kelley
d. Create a detailed Olmstead Plan: Harvey Rosenthal
6. Enhance Strategies to Help Distressed Individuals, Oppose
Psychiatric Profiling Eva Dech, Maura Kelley
10:45 am Senator David Carlucci, Senate Mental Health
Committee Chair (invited)
11:00 am Presentation of Award: Wendy Brenner, Muriel
Shepherd Partners with Families Award
11:30 am Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther, Assembly Mental Health
Committee Chair
11:45 am Kristin Woodlock, Acting Commissioner, NYS Office of
Mental Health
Noon Lunch
1:00 pm Rally to Reinvest in My Recovery, Oppose
Psychiatric Profiling
1:30 pm Meet with Your State Legislators!
4:00 pm Re-group at Your Buses, Return Home
Parking Information/Rates for Albany, NY
Parking Services 474-8118
Under the Empire State Plaza (ESP) in Visitor Parking
(V is the sign, the 3rd right turn under the ESP coming up from 787)
M-F 6:00AM-3:59PM $2.00/hour (max $20.00)
M-F 3:59PM-5:59PM $5.00 flat
Cathedral Parking
(left side of NYS Museum as you are looking at the Museum)
M-F 6:00AM-9:59AM $10.00 flat
M-F 10:00AM-3:00PM $5.00 flat
Museum/Madison Ave
(right side of NYS Museum as you are looking at the Museum)
M-F 6:00AM-9:59AM $10.00 flat
M-F 10:00AM-3:00PM $5.00 flat
Grand Street (east/below Empire State Plaza)
M-F 6:00AM-2:00PM $10.00 flat
Additional Parking
Location- Nearest Intersection- Operator– Daily
Rate
120 State St. Lodge & Howard Maiden Lane $10
Swan west side-Hamilton CRM
$10
70 Howard Eagle/Howard CYC
$8
20-24 Green Beaver
$6