NYS Files Appeal of Federal Judge's Landmark Adult Home Ruling
Thursday, March 4, 2010
NYS Files Appeal of Federal Judge's Landmark Adult Home Ruling
NYAPRS E-News March 3, 2010
Within a few days of Judge Nicholas Garaufis’ historic ruling ordering New York State government to move thousands of adult home residents with psychiatric disabilities into more integrated supported apartment settings (see http://www.nyaprs.org/Pages/View_ENews.cfm?ENewsID=8493), New York State filed its appeal early this evening.
More details as we get them. How very sad that, knowing the Judge would reject their miniscule proposal to move 1,000 residents out over the next 5 years, the state hadn’t figured out how to move the considerable amount of public dollars currently invested in housing them in the institutionalized warehouse-like settings that advocates and the Judge found the adult homes to be.
And how outrageous was the New York Post’s likening of the Judge’s careful transition plan into supported apartments with peer and other supports to the dumping of the 1970’s that led to the improper use of the homes in the first place. The Post called the Judge an ‘arrogant twit’ whose plan that would result in “homeless, hopeless, helpless and sometimes dangerous displaced mental patients.”
It may take many more months but, Post be damned, justice will prevail. Stay tuned for what you can do to help get us there.