Autism Corner

Tonight Joshua Stuart, Tyler Havlicek, Victor Colon and Dean Weber have talked about how New York's delays in funding is bad for Non Profits and other Disability Services. We also discussed how people shouldn’t judge us or deny themselves as a person with disabilities.

Tonight Victor and I discussed the dsp wages and so much more that needed to be talked about.

We are excited to be podcasting from Albany, NY where we had the privilege of interviewing Bridget Cariello and getting her intake on questions Tyler and I both had for her. We thank her for her time.

We discussed the New York State Budget Update on the COLA.

Tyler and I discussed the Statewide rally that he went to and how important it is to secure a 8.5% or higher COLA for people with disabilities.

We discussed future partnerships with different agencies. We talked the history and struggles of becoming the advocacy group and organization we are today.

We discussed the expansion of SSD and SSI as well as Medicaid services for individuals with disabilities who live in residential services. We also discussed about the able services. We discussed about the living wages possible living wages increase for DSP's as well as all New York. We discussed about getting more training for DSP's.