North Country Forum
Dr. Carney’s most recent posts are to be found here. He is in the process of compiling a complete archive of all articles he has written since his retirement from professional social work practice in 2010. All his blogs have as their focus issues pertaining to social justice; are generally placed in their historical context; and, ultimately, are subjected to in-depth analyses whose aim is to promote a full understanding of the issues being addressed.
CIAD & Community-Based Housing for Adult Home Residents in New York City: The Struggle Goes On
Sixteen million dollars are sitting in Albany, waiting to be converted into fifteen hundred apartments for adult home residents presumed to have serious mental illnesses. The task for CIAD – the Coalition of the Aged and Institutionalized Disabled – and its allies is to exert sufficient public pressure on State legislators and Governor Cuomo to spend that money for that purpose. In the blog I posted on this site back on April 17 – “The Mouse That Roared: CIAD & Friends vs. the State of New York” — I detailed CIAD’s years-long struggle to get to this point. Only a year earlier, in February, 2011, the Federal District Court in New York...