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Cortland’s Access to Independence calls it a huge advocacy win for the disability community!
The praise is for the advocates who worked to convince Governor Kathy Hochul to reinstate the Office of the Advocate for People with Disabilities as the new Office of the Chief Disability Officer.
ATI reports that all the functions will remain the same, including putting into place essential advocacy functions that ATI suggests have been absent for many years.
