VOR calls for immediate reform of broken New York system of care
For Immediate Release
June 8, 2011
VOR was deeply saddened to read yet another article in the New York Times about New York State’s failure to serve its citizens with disabilities. (Danny Hakim, “A Boy’s Death and a System in Disarray,” New York Times, June 5, 2011; see also, Hakim, “At State-Run Homes, Abuse and Impunity,” New York Times, March 12, 2011; and Sulzberger, “Judge Orders New York to Mentally Ill Out of Large Housing,” New York Times, March 1, 2010).
As a national advocacy organization, VOR supports individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. The people we represent are served in all types of care settings, from family homes to community homes to licensed facility-based homes (ICFs/MR). VOR is uncompromising in our support of the principle that a continuum of quality care options is necessary to meet the vast array of individual needs across the disability spectrum. We are no less uncompromising in our support for high quality care in all settings. The happiness, well-being and very survival of the individuals depending on these services require nothing less.
