Welcome to Downstate New York ADAPT
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ADAPT is a national grass-roots community that organizes disability rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action to assure freedom and civil rights for our people. Our chapter consists of activists across New York City and Long Island, as well as Rockland, Putnam, Orange, Westchester, Dutchess, Ulster, and Sullivan counties.
Updates
Follow our DNY blog to get the latest updates on our community and advocacy.
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Events
Check out our calendar page to see what we’re up to & join us!
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What we do
Interested in hearing more about what we do? Head over to our advocacy page.
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Urgent call to action: CDPAP is crashing
Everything we predicted has occurred. Even though we have been speaking out for months about how erasing all CDPA FI’s and forcing hundreds of thousands of people to transition to a single company within a 3 month timeline is disastrous — we were entirely ignored. Unfortunately, we were correct. Beginning April 1st, SO MANY disabled…
Oh New York, How the Mighty Have Fallen
A 2025 Update from DNY ADAPT’s Medicaid Advocacy Group For years, disabled New Yorkers have endured relentless and deliberate attacks not only on our healthcare services but on our very ability to live safely in the community. Former Governor Cuomo gutted the Medicaid program by proposing massive cuts and stricter eligibility criteria for home care…
DNY ADAPT 2025-26 Budget Position Statement
Re: 2025 Joint Legislative Budget Hearing on Health Dear Senator Krueger and Assembly Member Pretlow: These comments are submitted on behalf of Downstate New York ADAPT, a chapter of National ADAPT, the nation’s largest grassroots, non-hierarchical community of disabled people that fight for the right to live and fully participate in the community. We are…
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DNYADAPT@gmail.com
917-590-2944
New York, NY
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