Home Care Matters to Buffalo
Tue, Dec 17
|Buffalo Central Library | Downtown
Join us and the New York Caring Majority to learn more about changes to the CDPA program, to share your care stories, and to learn how you can be part of the solution.
Time & Location
Dec 17, 2024, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Buffalo Central Library | Downtown, 1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY 14203, USA
About the event
On September 30th, Governor Hochul announced a $40 billion contract to transfer the entire Consumer Directed Personal Assistance (CDPA) program—affecting 250,000 consumers and personal assistants—to Public Partnerships LLC (PPL). The transition is set to be complete by April 30, 2025.
But here’s the issue: PPL has a troubling history of failure including the prioritization of profits over care at the expense of vulnerable populations, people being denied critical services, a company-wide failure to pay tens of thousands of home care workers overtime wages, a history of mismanagement and costing states more in the long term to clean up the mess that PPL leaves behind.
We will be joined by Professor Michael Rembis, Director of the SUNY UB Center for Disability Studies, who will shed light on the fight to protect home care in New York, concerns surrounding the governor’s proposal for a single fiscal intermediary, and how we can…