As the leader of a non-profit organization that helped to pioneer consumer directed home care over 40 years ago, I’ve watched this issue become a subject of passionate discussion in recent months across New York.
The topic is our state’s Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program — commonly known as CDPAP — and some understandable confusion about the program’s future for the approximately 250,000 New Yorkers who rely on it for home care.
But despite what you might have heard recently, I have good news: the truth is that CDPAP is here to stay — and it’s getting stronger.
I know this because our non-profit organization, Concepts of Independence, is part of a new statewide partnership that, pending final approval, will include more than 30 regional and community-based groups that are joining forces in a unified effort to make CDPAP even better and more effective for New Yorkers who need it.
Under a plan that was........