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Empire Justice Center Human Services Testimony
Empire Justice Center's Susan Antos testifies regarding the budget priorities for Human Services. Read More |
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Empire Justice Testimony at the Roundtable Discussion on the Issues and Concerns of Human Services Administrators, Advocates and Clients
Testimony on the need to invest in child care assistance, the economic impact of foreclosure, improving identification of disability screening for welfare applicants and sanction policies, and the importance of full implementation of the final phase of the welfare grant increase. Read More |
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Empire Justice Tesimony: Challenges Facing the Child Care Community
This testimony focuses on the desperate need for resources to provide child care subsidies and an innovative way to prioritize limited child care dollars to support parents who are working, policy disparities between districts and the importance of ensuring that co-payments for child care subsidies are affordable for parents. Read More |
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Empire Justice Testimony on Improving Access to Family Court for Kinship Caregivers & Individuals with Mental Disabilities
Our testimony will focus on the legal needs of two groups of individuals and ways to improve their meaningful access to family court: informal kinship caregivers and individuals with mental and psychological disabilities. Read More |
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Joint Testimony on the Reauthorization of the Safe and Stable Families Act
Empire Justice and The National Committee of Grandparents of Children's Rights testimony on private kinship care. Read More |
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Empire Justice Testimony on New York State’s Draft Child Care Development Fund Plan for FFY 2012-2013
Access to subsidies gives children in low income families the opportunity to engage in an early learning experience that their families could not ordinarily afford. Much of this testimony focuses on areas where we believe OCFS can expand access to child care subsidies to two underserved populations: children in immigrant families and children with special needs. Read More |
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Empire Justice Center Testimony on Human Services in the 2011-12 Executive Budget Proposal
As New York continues to grapple with the aftermath of the recession, it is essential that we do not forget that there are many among us that are still in its epicenter. Read More |
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Empire Justice Center Testimony at the Executive Budget Hearing on Human Services
Testimony before the Joint Legislative Committees on human services in the 2010-2011 executive budget. Read More |
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Empire Justice Center Testimony on the 2009-2010 Human Services Executive Budget Proposal
Our testimony today will focus on a series of recommendations for the human services budget and will touch on the need to restore the elimination of civil legal services funding. Read More |
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Empire Justice Center Testimony on Budget issues in Health, Education, Higher Education, and Social Services
We urge you to use the level of funding allocated for the provision of essential services such as civil legal assistance, welfare benefits, child care and disability assistance and the availability of health coverage to low income and disenfranchised New Yorkers as the yardstick by which you measure the quality of the budget proposal. Read More |
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Empire Justice Center Testimony on Human Services in the 2008-2009 Executive Budget
Testimony to the Senate Finance and Assembly Ways and Means Committees regarding budget priorities for Human Services Read More |
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Empire Justice Center Testimony On Access to Quality Child Care
Testimony presented to New York State Assembly Committees on Labor, Children and Families, and Social Services on Access to Quality Child Care Read More |
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Empire Justice Center Testimony on Child Care Development Fund Plan
Testimony on the NYS Draft Child Care Development Fund Plan for FFY 2008-2009 Read More |
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Empire Justice Center Human Services Testimony 2007
Testimony regarding human services in the 2007-2008 executive budget. Read More |
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Empire Justice Center Human Services Budget Testimony for 2006
Testimony on the 2006-2007 Human Services Executive Budget Read More |
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