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NYSILC & Network Accomplishments
1999
Accomplishments:
- Sponsorship of the "Points of View" cable access
television program (every year since).
- Grant Writing Workshop.
- Private Sector Funding Workshop.
- Resource materials provided to statewide network:
- New York State Grants Guide and calendar.
- New York State Policymakers Guide.
- Strategic Planning Workbook.
- Marketing Workbook.
- Passage of the federal Ticket to Work and Work Incentives
Improvement Act (TWWIIA).
- $1.5 million dollar increase in the State
Appropriation.
2000
Accomplishments:
- Development and distribution of individually tagged PSA
Media Kits for the statewide network.
- Support of the NYS Attorney General signing on to the
State of Minnesota's amicus brief in Garrett vs. Alabama that defends Title II
of the ADA under the 14th Amendment.
- $1 million dollar increase in the State Appropriation.
2001
Accomplishments:
- $40,000 over two years to act as the court appointed
monitor in Galusha v. DEC Federal consent decree.
- Development and distribution of individually tagged
Spanish speaking PSA Media Kits for the statewide network.
- Statewide Disability Caucus held in Albany.
- IL History & Philosophy training product developed
and distributed to network.
- Defeat of NYS Code Council plan to make 2% of newly
constructed apartments accessible under the IBC and restoration of 100%
adaptability in the construction of new apartments.
- Coordination and systems advocacy of World Trade Center
issues that impacted people with disabilities in the New York City area until
CIDNY could regain local control.
2002
Accomplishments:
- NYSILC provided direct training on IL History &
Philosophy and/or Board Roles & Responsibilities at CILs.
- Dissemination of statewide results - 2002 CIL consumer
satisfaction survey.
- Presentation at Region X conference in Boise, ID.
- Co-presenter at IL NET training on Media Relations in
Oklahoma City, OK.
- Passage of a state Medicaid Buy-In program.
- Passage of a state Most-Integrated Setting law
(coordinating council).
- Passage of the federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA).
2003
Accomplishments:
- · $60,000 per year from the IL NET to evaluate
and provide training and technical assistance to CILs and SILCs in Regions I
& II.
- SSAN leadership development training in Albany. ·
IL Annual Conference: Back to Our Roots in Albany.
- Presentations at national conferences:
- Presentation on Media Advocacy at SILC Congress in
Anaheim, CA.
- Presentation on Using the SPIL to Create Unity at Region
III conference in Philadelphia, PA.
- Co-presenter at Region VI teleconference on SILC's as
Agents of Change.
- Distribution of DVD Version of IL History &
Philosophy product.
- REPORT: 2003 Voting Machine Accessibility Survey.
- Budget restoration/SSI COLA.
- Support of NYS Attorney General Eliot Spitzer signing on
to the State of Minnesota's amicus brief in Tennessee v. Lane before the U.S.
Supreme Court.
2004
Accomplishments:
- REPORT: Home Sweet Home
unless you don't have a
home! A look at the housing crisis for people with disabilities in New York
State and recommendations for reform.
- REPORT: A Different Universe: Zogby voting trends
report.
- Dissemination of statewide results - 2004 CIL consumer
satisfaction survey.
2005
Accomplishments:
- Nursing Facility Transition 101 training.
- Facilitated SILC Operations training in Bangor, ME.
- Acquisition of the Wisconsin QUILS peer quality
assurance product for the statewide network.
- REPORT: Where the Rubber Fails to Meet the Road: A look
at the negative impact transportation gaps have on the life of New Yorkers with
disabilities and recommendations for reform.
- REPORT: Complaints Reveal Widespread Patterns of Voting
Discrimination Against New Yorkers with Disabilities.
- REPORT: 2005 Voting Machine Accessibility Survey: Let
the buyer
and disabled voter
beware!
- NYSILC Article 78 lawsuit against the NYS Board of
Elections in State Supreme Court. NYSILC awarded an appointment to the advisory
committee to select voting machines per state statute.
2006
Accomplishments:
- Sponsorship of the NYAIL 2006 Conference and Disability
Caucus.
- Development and distribution of a Financial Reference
Guide to the statewide network.
- REPORT: NYSILC Housing Institute Handout: The Housing
Crises for Persons with Disabilities.
- REPORT: Executive Summary: 2006 NYS Voting Access Survey
Report.
- USDOJ lawsuit against New York State for HAVA
violations. NYSILC submits evidence and affidavits.
- Dismayed with the Federal Judge's "Plan B" ruling,
NYSILC and other plaintiffs file suit in Federal Court seeking intervention
rights in the case represented by the firm Proskauer Rose LLP.
- The judge routinely denied the plaintiffs' motion to
intervene without reason. Proskauer Rose submits an appeal to the US Court of
Appeals.
- Voting trends of New Yorkers with disabilities conducted
with the Siena Research Institute and Zogby International.
- Dissemination of statewide results - 2006 CIL consumer
satisfaction survey.
2007
Accomplishments:
- Statewide disability vote training event held in Albany
- Lt. Governor Paterson keynote speaker.
- Surveys completed: Needs assessment, housing needs, CIL
technology & equipment.
- Housing Institute statewide training held in Albany -
participants given IL housing specialists manual. · NYS Senator William
Larkin introduces S.6311 - a proactive polling place access bill in the Senate
based on the direct input of advocates.
- Advocates generate over 500 letters in five days and
convince the NYSBOE to drop consideration of segregated use of Ballot Marking
Devices at countywide accessible voting sites for people with disabilities
(including the use of affidavit ballots). The sites would be integrated for all
voters.
- Advocates defeat an amendment to HR 811 that would have
suspended the voting access rights of New Yorkers with disabilities under HAVA
until 2010. The amendment got as far as Speaker Pelosi and the Chair of the
Rules Committee.
- Through constant pressure, advocates help to guide and
influence an updated court order that requires the state to have one Ballot
Marking Device per polling place for 2008.
2008
Accomplishments:
- Assemblyman Cahill introduces a "same as" bill to S.6311
in the Assembly regarding polling place accessibility. It passes on Assembly
Disability Awareness Day.
- REPORT: NYSILC Focus Group Voting Machine Testing
Report.
- REPORT: 2008 Disability Travel Survey.
- Affordable, accessible, and integrated housing
publications distributed to statewide network of centers (IL housing specialist
manual updated).
- 2008 post election polls/voting trends of people with
disabilities (Zogby & SRI).
- Post production of one hour voting rights documentary
completed by DGI Video with assistance of Western New York Independent Living
Project (to be released in 2009).
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