Laura
04-16-2009, 01:52 AM
Help Protect the Rights of Families with Psychiatric Disabilities
AND DROP Social Services Law 384-b(4)(c)
Call Your Legislators on Thursday, April 16 In Your Home District Office
Tell Lawmakers to:
“Please support and co-sponsor S.2835/A.6668 in order to put and end to discrimination against parents with Psychiatric and Developmental Disabilities”
Did You Know That in New York Parents with a Psychiatric or Developmental Disability Can have their parental custody terminated based on their disability?
Without This Legislation:
§ Children will be traumatized by unnecessary separation from their parents
§ Civil liberties will continue to be violated based on a psychiatric diagnosis alone
§ Courts can perpetuate the stigma of psychiatric and developmental disabilities
To locate the phone number for your State Senator, go to www.senate.state.ny.us
To locate the phone number for your Assembly member, go to http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/
The Mental Health Association in New York State (MHANYS) is working with New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services (NYAPRS), Families Together in New York State (FTNYS), New York Association on Independent Living (NYILG), Coalition for Homeless and the support of many statewide and regional organizations to change New York’s child custody law to eliminate provisions that discriminate against parents with psychiatric and developmental disabilities.
1. abandonment [384-b4(b)]
2. permanent neglect [384-b4(d)]
3. severe and repeated abuse [384-b4(e)]
4. The parents are presently and for the foreseeable future unable, by reason of mental illness or mental retardation, to provide proper and adequate care for a child who has been in the care of an authorized agency for a period of one year. [384-b(4)(c)]
AND DROP Social Services Law 384-b(4)(c)
Call Your Legislators on Thursday, April 16 In Your Home District Office
Tell Lawmakers to:
“Please support and co-sponsor S.2835/A.6668 in order to put and end to discrimination against parents with Psychiatric and Developmental Disabilities”
Did You Know That in New York Parents with a Psychiatric or Developmental Disability Can have their parental custody terminated based on their disability?
Without This Legislation:
§ Children will be traumatized by unnecessary separation from their parents
§ Civil liberties will continue to be violated based on a psychiatric diagnosis alone
§ Courts can perpetuate the stigma of psychiatric and developmental disabilities
To locate the phone number for your State Senator, go to www.senate.state.ny.us
To locate the phone number for your Assembly member, go to http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/
The Mental Health Association in New York State (MHANYS) is working with New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services (NYAPRS), Families Together in New York State (FTNYS), New York Association on Independent Living (NYILG), Coalition for Homeless and the support of many statewide and regional organizations to change New York’s child custody law to eliminate provisions that discriminate against parents with psychiatric and developmental disabilities.
1. abandonment [384-b4(b)]
2. permanent neglect [384-b4(d)]
3. severe and repeated abuse [384-b4(e)]
4. The parents are presently and for the foreseeable future unable, by reason of mental illness or mental retardation, to provide proper and adequate care for a child who has been in the care of an authorized agency for a period of one year. [384-b(4)(c)]