Keeping the Promise: SIDDC Breakfast

Posted on March 7, 2016 Updated on March 7, 2016

The Staten Island Developmental Disabilities Council’s Annual Community Breakfast: “Keeping the Promise: It Matters to Us” was held February 26, 2016 at The Vanderbilt in South Beach.  NYS Senator Diane Savino and NYS Assembly Representative Nicole Malliotakis heard the concerns of advocates for and families of people with disabilities.

Life-Wire News Service’s Meredith Arout photographed the event and filed the following video report.

Michael Weinberg, Staten Island Developmental Disabilities Council, Chair

Murray B. Schneps, author of “I See Your Face Before Me”

Diane Savino, NYS Senate

Nichole Malliotakis, NYS Assembly

Theodore Ericson, Staten Island Developmental Disabilities Council, 1st Vice Chair

Donna Long, Staten Island Developmental Disabilities Council, Advocacy Committee, Co-Chair

Joan Dix, Advocate/Family Member

Kerry Delaney, NYS Office for People with Developmental Disabilities, Action Commissioner

Michael Weinberg, Staten Island Developmental Disabilities Council, Chair

Kerry Delaney, NYS Office for People with Developmental Disabilities, Action Commissioner

Richard and Scott Salinardi, Lifestyles for the Disabled

Angela Edwards and Peter Korsberg, Staten Island Developmental Disabilities Council

Nichole Malliotakis, NYS Assembly

Next, we will post the keynote presentation at the SIDDC Breakfast:   Murray Schneps, author of “I See Your Face Before Me,” a personal account of his experience of having a child enrolled in Willowbrook State School, discusses his concern that New York State may return to the institutional system.