Action Alerts Blog
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Action Alert: Tell Cuomo to Restore Funding for Homeless and Runaway Youth Services
Tell Gov. Cuomo to restore $2.3 million in funding for runaway and homeless youth services!
Gov. Cuomo allocated over $38 million new dollars for the Office of Children & Family Services (OCFS), yet threatens to cut runaway and homeless youth services by an additional 33%. Cuts from prior years including the 50% cut from last year, has resulted in a cumulative total of a 70% cut for Runaway and Homeless Youth Services (RHY), from its highest at 6.1 million to a level of 2.3 – a level not seen since the 1980’s!
Cutting RHY services doesn’t save money but only shifts service costs to more expensive venues such as jails, psychiatric hospitals, medical care/HIV treatment, substance use, etc. The young people who …
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:20 am
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Action Alert: Call Your Senators TODAY to Protect Syringe Exhange Funding!
We need your help to protect syringe exchange programs. Call your Senator immediately!
Syringe exchange programs are under attack RIGHT NOW in last minute Fiscal Year 2012 appropriations negotiations. There have been remarkable gains in prevention over the past two years due to syringe exchange programs, all of which would be lost if language reinstating the federal ban on syringe exchange is included in the FY12 budget package.
Tell both your Senators: DO NOT REINSTATE FUNDING BAN ON SYRINGE EXCHANGE PROGRAMS!
Call toll-free to: 1.800.828.0498. When you reach the Capitol Switchboard, ask to be connected to your Senator’s office. If you don’t know the names of your Senators visit the Senate website. If you have …
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 5:21 pm
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New Report Shows Homeless Have Overlapping Needs
A new report by the Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness provides some crucial data and graphics to illustrate what many homeless and homeless advocates already know: Homelessness often accompanies substance use, intimate partner violence, HIV/AIDS, and mental illness. Here’s some of the data the present connecting HIV and homelessness:
- HIV/AIDS affects roughly six percent of adults in families and individuals living in permanent supportive housing (5.8% and 6.6%, respectively).
- The rate of infection for homeless families is nearly twelve times higher than for persons nationwide (0.5%).
- Homeless mothers, with their limited access to screenings and preventative care, have a higher risk of infection than their housed peers.
- The effects of the disease (exorbitant …
Posted on December 13, 2011 at 5:24 pm
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Action Alert: Tell Super Committee TODAY “No Cuts to HIV Services!”
Right now, 12 Members of Congress, The Super Committee, are meeting in the back rooms of Congress, plotting the future of America.
The Congressional Super Committee is slated to release a deficit reduction plan in less than two weeks. Medicaid, HOPWA, Medicare, HIV prevention and Ryan White programs are all at risk of dramatic funding cuts.
We know that you and your elected officials want a happy ending, and that means the Super Committee must reduce the deficit by including real revenue increases while also protecting vital programs for people with HIV from severe cuts. Send a message asking your U.S. Senators and Representative to be Super Friends to people living with HIV by protecting the future of health …
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 10:56 am
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Action Alert: Tell Your Senators to Restore Cuts to Homeless Programs
On November 1, NYS Senators Schumer and Gillibrand and 67 other senators voted yes on a bill that would CUT a whopping $4.1 billion from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) budget for next year, including cuts to critical homeless assistance programs.
Lawmakers will now conference the budget with the House Appropriation Committee’s budget to produce a final version. There is still hope of making some restorations to HUD programs, but the time to act is NOW!
New Yorkers, please call both Senators and express your disappointment in their vote. Here’s what you can say or put in your own words:
“Dear Senator______. I am a New York State resident, and I am disappointed in your vote …
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 3:01 pm
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Special 3-Hour Action Alert! Tell Super Committee Dems to Defend Medicaid
We expect this from Republicans, but Democrats? Super Committee members from both parties released proposals that would make large and painful cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. There’s still a few hours left in today’s National Call-In Day to make your voice heard.
New Yorkers: Call Senator Schumer’s office TODAY and tell him that you are shocked that Democrats are giving up on social safety net programs. Here’s what you can say:
“Thank you Senator Schumer for fighting for us – please use your influence to tell the Super Committee Democrats that we are outraged by the Super Committee members who have agreed to cuts in vital programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Creating jobs is the best way to reduce our …
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 1:36 pm
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Action Alert: Urge Congress to Fully Fund Critical Homelessness Programs
Please call you representatives TODAY and urge them to speak to their appropriations committee leadership about adequately funding the McKinney-Vento Homelessness Assistance Program and other programs that fight homelessness. The Senate is deciding funding levels for these programs for 2012 THIS WEEK.
Ending homelessness for families is a bi-partisan issue and the McKinney program is widely regarded as HUD’s most effective program.
Today, the New York Times published its second editorial
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 2:07 pm
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World AIDS Day Action Alert: Zap Bloomberg with Email, Twitter, Phone Calls
This World AIDS Day, help us set Bloomberg’s misguided AIDS policies straight!
Every December Bloomberg commits to fighting AIDS at his World AIDS Day Bagel Breakfast. But every January, he proposes a budget with devastating cuts to services such as HIV prevention and AIDS housing and nutrition programs. This year, Bloomberg also convinced Gov. Paterson to veto the “30 Percent Rent Cap” bill that would have provided housing security for 10,000 poor New Yorkers with AIDS.
TAKE ACTION!
1) EMAIL Send Bloomberg an email using our message tool below!
2) TWITTER Click the tweet button below to tell @mikebloomberg “Hey @mikebloomberg I stand with the World AIDS Day #BagelBoycott. Support the 30% rent cap & don’t cut AIDS services! ”
Posted on November 26, 2010 at 6:51 pm
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