NYS BUDGET ANALYSIS

RESIDENTIAL SERVICES: The only new money set aside for residential services is $8 million all in (1/2 from the State and ½ from the Federal Government) for families who can no longer care for the loved ones at home, those in dire straits.

EMPLOYMENT: There is language in the budget that ensures that people currently in Sheltered Workshops have choices of where to work.

EARLY INTERVENTION: The need for more money for Early Intervention was ignored.

EDUCATION: There is still hope that the State Dept. of Education will put in a small increase in the 4410 and 853 schools these are the schools run by agencies that take on the children that the Dept. of Education cannot educate. All of this is subject to change.

Additional Analysis Coming