To: The New York State House, The New York State Senate, and Governor Andrew Cuomo
Improve Working Condition for Direct Support Providers for the Disabled
We urge the Governor of New York, the New York State Senate and the New York State Legislature not to rush to pass legislation to set up another government agency to investigate and prosecute allegations of abuse without first Including action steps to prevent the causes of abuse and improve working conditions for all workers who support people with disailities.
We urge all the parties to carefully investigate the causes of abuse and commit to preventing it in addition to prosecuting it.
Why is this important?
The Governor of NY has proposed and the NY State Senate has passed legislation to start a new government agency called the Justice Center to investigate and prosecute all allegations of abuse to individuals with disabilities by their workers.
This legislation does not include enough measures to fix a broken system that contributes to the abuse or provide any measures to support and educate good workers to keep them in the field and prevent them from becoming abusive.
this petetion is to urge NY State Government to include measures to prevent abuse in this legislation.