Recent News
- An Especially Exciting Restoration of RightsFrom the beginning, one of SDMNY’s charges has been to pilot a facilitation process culminating in an SDMA as a means of terminating existing guardianships and restoring all the civil and legal rights that a 17-A guardianship removes. Over the years, we have been successful whenever one of our Decision-Makers has petitioned the Surrogate’s Court… Continue reading An Especially Exciting Restoration of Rights
- SDM and SDMNY Shine at State’s Largest Gathering of Persons in the I/DD Field; OPWDD Commissioner Expresses Strong SupportEvery April the Sagamore Hotel in Bolton Landing, NY hosts a gathering of the largest group of people involved in the I/DD field in the state, from provider agencies to Self-Advocates, parents and siblings to high level staff from OPWDD (some 30, by our count). This year’s 3-day conference, run by the New York Alliance… Continue reading SDM and SDMNY Shine at State’s Largest Gathering of Persons in the I/DD Field; OPWDD Commissioner Expresses Strong Support
- Constantly Evolving: Celebrating Our 15th Training of FacilitatorsIt’s hard to believe, but the Training of Facilitators (TOF) that began this week is actually the 15th we’ve held over 6 years (with now almost 300 facilitators trained), and have they ever changed! We started in 2017 at CUNY Law School where then-Director Kris Glen had been Dean, and then moved to Hunter’s Silberman… Continue reading Constantly Evolving: Celebrating Our 15th Training of Facilitators
- The SDMNY/Agency Partnership Pilot is Now Officially Underway!Part of our OPWDD grant to design and pilot a statewide facilitation service delivery system involves testing how provider agencies (and other sources of potential facilitators and Decision-Makers) might interface with a centralized entity (for now, SDMNY) which does training, mentoring and provides uniform facilitation materials. Over the past months we have reached out to… Continue reading The SDMNY/Agency Partnership Pilot is Now Officially Underway!
- Bringing SDM Facilitation to the Private BarAs part of the OPWDD implementation grant (Good News [12/17/2021]), we are charged with developing a variety of sources for potential Decision-Makers and facilitators through “mini-pilots”. While we have assumed that the largest mini-pilot will be made up of service providers (and have already enlisted a number of them as partner agency providers) (Good News… Continue reading Bringing SDM Facilitation to the Private Bar