WHEN
Monday, March 9, 2015
8:30 AM – 4:00 PM
WHERE
Empire State Plaza, Meeting Rooms 2-4
Albany, New York 12242
RSVP
Monday, March 2, 2015
Click Here to Register your Agency Representatives
*You do not have to register individual people, a total count per agency is sufficient*
Please send administrative staff, program directors, other staff, consumers and board members who can explain our issues to legislators. Help us explain to more than 200 law makers that OMH funded programs have suffered cuts of up to 43% over the last 20 years, while being expected to serve much more challenging clients, manage the health and mental health for people with many co-occurring conditions and manage complicated medication regimens that were never anticipated when the models were developed.
We will set up your appointments once you register. We will have customized briefing books for each legislator that you will pick up on the day and bring with you. We will have sent a copy of those briefing books sent to every legislator the morning of the lobby day, in advance of your visit.
We have developed what we believe is a reasonable ask that will save our system.
- Add $43 million to the Supported Housing rate in 2015 to make up for losses from inflation and to ensure that Supported Housing is sustained, basing future rates on a reasonable formula.
- Add $24 million for CR-SROs to make up for losses from inflation and so that they can better serve those with challenging needs.
- Add $19 million for the CR program (includes both CRs and Treatment Apartments) to make-up for losses from inflation and to incentivize providers to admit the most challenging clients safely.
- Add $13 million to SP-SROs, permanent housing with supports, to make up for losses from inflation and to better equip them to serve clients with more challenging service needs.
In addition, we will be advocating for a comprehensive COLA – not a targeted COLA – more MRT money for housing, community reinvestment from the downsizing of state facilities and for JP Morgan Chase settlement money to go into housing.