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and City Budget:
Funding for senior, youth, legal and immigration services,
childcare, education, housing, summer jobs for youth,
healthcare.
United
Neighborhood Houses, City
Project, Neighborhood
Family Services Coalition, Human
Services Council, Council
of Senior Services and Centers, New
York Immigration Coalition
Social Security:
Oppose new proposals to privatize, cut benefit, cost
of living adjustments (COLA) or raise retirement age
for future beneficiaries.
Alliance
for Retired Americans, Congress of Senior Citizens;
Campaign
for America's Future, Joint
Planning Activities Council for Older Adults
Healthcare:
Medicare and adding prescription drug benefit, Medicaid
and managed care, HMO Patients' Bill of Rights legislation,
coverage for the uninsured, A.I.D.S.
New
York Network for Action on Medicare, Healthcare
for All, Housing
Works, Take
back Medicare, Medicare
Rights Center
Mental Health:
Community Re-investment Act; Parity legislation-Timothy's
Law, Cost of Living increase, etc.
New
York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services,
National
Alliance for the Mentally Ill
Housing Production & Preservation:
Funding for various forms of permanent and supported
housing, including rent subsidy programs and code
enforcement issues.
Association
for Neighborhood and Housing Development, City
Wide Task Force on Housing Court, Housing
First!, Interfaith
Assembly on Housing and Homelessness, Housing
Here & Now!
Tenant Protections:
Strengthen rent control/stabilization laws and NYCHA
issues.
SRO-Tenants United; Met
Council, New
York City Public Housing Residents Alliance, Tenants
and Neighbors
Real Job Training and Education
Programs:
Minimum wage and job bills, reauthorization of national
welfare legislation, ES-2 campaign.
Welfare
Reform Network, Hunger
Action Network of New York State
Public Education:
School governance issues and funding for public school.
Campaign
for Fiscal Equity, Alliance
for Quality Education, Education
Priority Panel, Advocates
for Children of New York
Issues on War and Peace:
forums, vigils, etc.
United
for Peace and Justice
Family Council participants
by Goddard Riverside Community Center program
or target community populations:
Senior Center and NORCs:
Public issues committee--full agenda (budget, social
security and healthcare)
Youth and Beacon Programs:
Jobs Club-SYEP funding and State and City budget issues
Reach-Out/T.O.P:
Through consumer councils: funding for housing, jobs
and mental health issues
SRO and Rent-Regulated Tenants:
SROTU: state rent regulations and code, RGB hearings,
housing court
Daycare and Headstart:
Information regarding early childhood education funding
issues and public school issues
AIDS support group (staff only):
Education and advocacy on AIDS. issues
NYCHA residents:
New procedures, privatization concerns, oppose mandated
community service
Public School Parents:
Funding issues; CFE lawsuit; governance
Faith-Based Institutions:
Voter registration, war and peace, housing and homelessness
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