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MHASC

2024-04-04T12:44:44-04:00December 6th, 2023|

MHASC (Mental Health Alternatives to Solitary Confinement) coalition successfully advocated for the enactment of the SHU Exclusion Law and continues to work to improve mental health treatment in NYS prisons and end indefinite forensic detention.

CCIT-NYC

2023-12-06T19:35:15-05:00December 6th, 2023|

Correct Crisis Intervention Today-New York City (CCIT-NYC) is a coalition of activists, advocates, and other community and non-profit members working to transform how New York City responds to the 200,000+ mental health crises calls currently responded to by the NYPD.

Report: Preventing Wasteful and Inequitable Consultative Examinations in Social Security Disability Claims

2022-03-08T16:55:50-05:00March 4th, 2022|

MHP - UJC

"Today, advocates from New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG), the Urban Justice Center (UJC), and Community Legal Services of Philadelphia (CLS) released a new report about wasteful and harmful Social Security policies, which discriminate against adults and children with disabilities. The report focuses on issues arising in New York State and Pennsylvania, but this is a national problem, stemming from federal policy failures."