Are You A Mount Vernon Resident with A Disability? Do You Speak Up For Your Rights And The Rights Of Others? Want to learn about resources and protections for people with disabilities? Then join the Mayor’s Advisory Board!
By Magdalena Klodnicka & Carole Conklin Are you satisfied with your life as it is today? What is your dream? No, don’t say it will never happen because… Just sit down and ask yourself a question: what is this one thing I always wanted to do? Don’t think how, or...
As seen on: https://www.tapinto.net By BRIAN MARSCHHAUSER August 18, 2017 at 8:00 AM YORKTOWN, N.Y. – The Yorktown Town Board is using a lawsuit against the town as an opportunity to rejuvenate the Underhill Avenue corridor. In December 2016, Westchester Disabled on the Move Inc., a Yonkers-based organization, filed a...
by, Mel Tanzman, Executive Director Recently, the Journal News the lower Hudson Valley’s newspaper of record had comprehensive coverage of the sexual offender civil confinement law for psychiatrically disabled individuals called “Connie’s Law”. It gave a quite balanced view of an emotionally and politically sensitive issue and suggested in an...
Event details August 3, 2017 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm 914-968-4717 LIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCES & RAFFLES at YONKERS BREWING Co. located at 92 Main Street in Yonkers! $25 Wristband Donation gets discount on select food and drinks For more info call 914-968-4717 Click here to download PDF Event Flyer View the Photo Gallery...
Written By: Melissa Lopez-Robles, B.B.A. – Housing Specialist A housing subsidy is a form of economic assistance sponsored by the government. It is aimed towards alleviating housing costs and expenses for needy people with very low or low to moderate income. This is also known as “Affordable Housing”. Although subsidies...
by Mel Tanzman, Executive Director These are the closing inspirational words to our Nation’s Pledge of Allegiance. However, as a disability and civil rights activist I know that those in power in our nation have not shown adequate allegiance to those closing words. While I don’t want to use this...
By Yaw Appiadu, MPH I have heard comments like this many times before from those that come to me for help, their voices filled with frustration. I have been assisting the aged, blind, disabled and their families with Medicaid applications for over two years. Most of the time, families contact...
Achille Iolascon M.A. Systems Advocate As an organization which advocates for the rights of all people with disabilities, we at Westchester Disabled on the Move, Inc.(WDOMI) can vouch for the fact that the lack of affordable, accessible, and integrated housing options within the community remains the single greatest obstacle facing...
Michael P. McKinney , mmckinney@lohud.comPublished 12:19 p.m. ET Jan. 27, 2017 | Updated 7:04 a.m. ET Jan. 30, 2017 YORKTOWN – An advocacy group for the disabled in Westchester County has alleged in a lawsuit that Yorktown Town Hall has violated the federal Americans with Disabilities Act and that additional parking spaces pledged to bring...