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NYS Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) Commissioner Courtney Burke announced the appointments of members of the State’s new “People First Waiver Steering Committee”. The 32-member body includes nine representatives of provider agencies and associations in addition to individuals and family members, outside experts, and representatives of government.
“Over the coming months, this committee will oversee a comprehensive planning process in which a wide range of interested parties—self advocates, family members, public officials and staff, service providers and experts in health care and long-term care—will together develop a proposal to the federal government for a new administrative and fiscal structure for our developmental disabilities service system,” said Burke. “The Steering Committee will examine current policy issues and shape the work of distinct design teams that are focused on key elements of the system. The members of the Steering Committee bring a breadth of expertise and will serve New York State with excellence as we advance this service system to greater standards of quality, effectiveness and efficiency.”
The members are as follows:
Individual & Family Members
- Mary Jo Hebert, MSC Outreach and Training Coordinator, Parent to Parent of New York;
- Clint Perrin, Self Advocate, Self Advocacy Association of New York State;
- Margaret Puddington, Parent Advocate;
- Michael Rogers, Self Advocate, Self Advocacy Association of New York State;
- Lisa Severino, Self Advocate;
- Yvette Watts, Parent Advocate, New York Association of Emerging & Multicultural Providers, Inc.
NYS Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Advisory Council (MRDDAC)
- Nick Cappoletti, Executive Director, Advocates Incorporated.
OPWDD Provider Agencies and Provider Associations
- Wafa Abboud, Chief Executive Officer, Human First, Inc.;
- James M. Boles, President and CEO, People Inc.;
- Marc Brandt, Executive Director, NYSARC, Inc.;
- Susan Constantino, President and CEO, Cerebral Palsy Association of New York State;
- Ann Hardiman, Executive Director, NYS Association of Community and Residential Agencies;
- Edward Matthews, Chief Executive Officer, United Cerebral Palsy of New York City;
- Hanns Meissner, Chief Executive Officer, The ARC of Rensselaer County;
- Peter Pierri, Executive Director, Interagency Council of Developmental Disabilities;
- Steven Vernikoff, Executive Director and CEO, The Center for Family Support.
Outside Experts
- Kate Breslin, President and CEO, Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy;
- Katharine Briar-Lawson, Dean, School of Social Welfare, University at Albany;
- Jo-Ann Costantino, Chief Executive Officer, The Eddy;
- Joanne Cunningham, President, Home Care Association of New York State;
- Harvey Rosenthal, Executive Director, New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services;
- Stephen B. Sulkes, Director, Strong Center for Developmental Disabilities, Golisano Children’s Hospital, University of Rochester Medical Center;
- Rick Surpin, President, Independence Care System;
- Elizabeth Swain, Chief Executive Officer, Community Health Care Association of New York State;
- James A. Yonai, Director, (and MRDDAC member), Madison County Mental Health Department.
New York State Government
- Courtney Burke, Commissioner, NYS Office for People With Developmental Disabilities;
- Bruce Feig, Executive Deputy Commissioner, NYS Office of Mental Health;
- William Gettman, Executive Deputy Commissioner, NYS Office of Children and Family Services;
- Jason Helgerson, NYS Medicaid Director, New York State Department of Health;
- James Introne, NYS Deputy Secretary for Health and Director of Healthcare Redesign;
- William Panepinto, Director, Bureau of Housing, New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services;
- Michael Peluso, Coordinator, Interagency, Legislative & Community Relations, NYS Education Department.
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