We are confronted with a dire need to invest resources to address an employment crisis. With the New York State budget deadline fast approaching, the support
and well-being of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities is at risk. Often overlooked, 11% of New Yorkers are living with an intellectual or developmental disability. Each person with a disability deserves and has the right to a healthy, fulfilling and inclusive life, all of which is made possible by the support of family members, doctors, teachers and the essential service workers known as Direct Support Professionals .
Trained DSPs and other frontline staff do more than provide support; they provide hope and create opportunities. Their relationships with individuals help facilitate skill acquisition and independence.
Every year it becomes more and more challenging for developmental disability service organizations to recruit qualified DSPs and other essential staff as inflation outpaces the funding for wages. Without a sustainable workforce, individuals with disabilities will lose access to care, opportunities to grow and basic human rights. If not-for-profit organizations cannot provide essential services, families will have no choice but to bear the impossible financial and logistical burdens themselves.
New York Disability Advocates, along with other advocates across the state, are calling on Governor Hochul and the legislature to include the full 3.2% COLA for not-for-profit intellectual and developmental disability providers to be utilized for the increase in operational costs such as food, transportation, medical supplies, utilities and insurance. Furthermore, we ask that the budget includes the adoption of a Direct Support Wage Enhancement to bolster wages for all our frontline workers.
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