Event Overview
Elder and Disability Community Based Services: Current and Future
Monday, January 23, 2023
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM — Virtual CLE Program
2.5 MCLE Credits
2.5 Areas of Professional Practice
This program is transitional and is suitable for all attorneys
including those newly admitted.
Elder and Disability Community Based Services: Current and Future
This program will address the segmentation and symmetries in the disparate programs with similar goals and how community-based programs are utilized currently for individuals with Developmental Disabilities through OPWDD (Office for People with Developmental Disabilities), Mental Health issues through OMH (Office of Mental Health), and Older Adults, including through Medicaid and MLTC (Managed Long-Term Care).
In reviewing these trinary nearly parallel systems, we will see the symmetries, differences, and disparities in policy and service delivery.
What Community Based Programs Exist?
Each Presenter will describe the existing legal landscape, eligibility, benefits, program overlaps and conflicts in the respective categories of those individuals with Developmental Disabilities (DD), Mental Health issues (MH), and older adults both at home and in congregate care.
$105 Virtual Program Registration Fee
Monday, January 23, 2023
Elder and Disability Community Based Services: Current and Future
2.5 MCLE Credits
2.5 Areas of Professional Practice
This program is transitional and is suitable for all attorneys
including those newly admitted.
9:00 a.m. – 9:05 a.m.
Welcome and Introduction
Moderator and Program Coordinator:
Joseph J. Ranni, Esq.
Co-Chair, Committee on Disability Rights
Ranni Law Firm
Florida, NY
9:05 a.m. – 9:40 a.m.
Developmental Disability and OPWDD Eligibility and Services
Speaker
Alison K. Morris, Esq. | Co-Chair, Committee on Disability Rights, Cuddy Law Firm, Valhalla, NY
9:50 a.m. – 10:25 a.m.
Mental Health and OMH Services, as well as Article 9 and Article 81
Speaker
Moira Schneider Laidlaw, Esq. | Hollis Laidlaw & Simon, P.C., Mount Kisco, NY
10:35 a.m. – 11:10 a.m.
Older Adults, including Medicaid and MLTC
Speaker
Valerie J. Bogart, Esq. | New York Legal Assistance Group, New York, NY
11:20 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Where Do We Go From Here? Developing Trends
This segment will be more forward looking, taking into account the changes that resulted from the pandemic, analysis of symmetries and differences, as well as legislation, regulation and program changes passed or under consideration.
Speaker
Alison K. Morris, Esq. | Co-Chair, Committee on Disability Rights, Cuddy Law Firm, Valhalla, NY
Moira Schneider Laidlaw, Esq. | Hollis Laidlaw & Simon, P.C., Mount Kisco, NY
Valerie J. Bogart, Esq. | New York Legal Assistance Group, New York, NY