Richard Infante, an artist from the AHRC East Meadow Art Gallery, designed the winning logo to represent the AHRC Personal Outcome Measures (POMS) Department. The AHRC POMS Department launched the logo contest in January 2021 and invited people supported by the agency to submit original... Read More
From the Desk of the Executive Director. We all were hoping that 2021 would be a better year— and in some respects it has been. We now have three effective vaccines against Covid-19. Congress passed a relief bill for those adversely affected by the pandemic.... Read More
As a result of advocates in our community, like Saundra Gumerove, Esq., irst vice president of AHRC Nassau, recently the New York State Budget passed with crucial disability funding. In this article, Saundra explains her experience of advocating for increased funding for her daughter, Lauren. ... Read More
Wonderful news so early in 2021! Vaccinations have begun for residents of our group homes and apartments as well as for residential staff members and personnel who work in our homes. It is because of your continued advocacy, the people we support and these staff... Read More
Self-advocates from AHRC Nassau called out to lawmakers to #SaveOurServices on Wednesday, December 9, at 11 a.m. on Zoom, presented by NYC FAIR, L.I.A.N.D.D., and the NYC Developmental Disabilities Councils: Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island, ENYDDA, and NYADD. In the weeks leading up... Read More