Press & Media
With over the five decades of CIAD’s work to empower residents, our Press Page highlights significant moments and achievements. The links to various articles and publications provide an overview of some of the issues and challenges we have addressed in pursuing our mission.
What’s Happening In Adult Care Facilities in NYC
OCTOBER 2023
The” W” residents blocked from ‘rights’ sessions.
Complaint from MFJ and CIAD charge management not allowing vital meetings – Now in the Riverdale Press.
What’s Happening In Adult Care Facilities in NYC
CIAD Concerned Over Corporatization of Adult Care Facilities in New York.
“The W has indeed been a concern to us because they have bought up a good number of adult homes in New York City and New York state. We are concerned about the so-called corporatization of care and the services residents are receiving there,” CIAD’s Lieberman said.
Pandemic & Adult Homes in the News
Published in The New Republic and Pro Publica
The Elderly Trapped in Bronxwood
Published on Buzzfeed
Nobody Knows Exactly How Hard the Coronavirus is Hitting
Published on Marketwatch
New York Nursing Homes Prep for a Potential Second Wave of Covid
CIAD in the News
- 2017 – Resident Council Presidents and CIAD’s Executive Director testify at a legislative hearing on a proposal to increase the SSI Rate for Adult Homes. City and State covers the issue and the hearing.
- 2008 – Members of the Coalition of the Institutionalized Aged and Disabled (CIAD) along with mental health advocates gathered in the Well of the Legislative Office Building last Wednesday for an Adult Home Resident “Speak Out!” rally….Read the rest of the story.
- 2007 – Coalition Advocates for Adult Home Residents Legislative Gazette Monday June 11, 2027 by Dan Sabbatino, staff writer…Read the story here.
- 2005 – Unbearable: Fed Up Seniors Demand A/C In Adult Homes: Bay News (September 5, 2005) By Michele De Meglio – Tired of sleeping in sweltering bedrooms, residents of adult homes are banning together to demand that the state foot the bill for air conditioners. – download pdf story
- 2005 – Adult Home Residents Plead For Free A/C: The Wave (August 19, 2005) – The Coalition of Institutionalized Aged and Disabled held a community meeting in Far Rockaway on August 10 to demand free air conditioning for adult homes. Read the story here.
- 2005 – THEY’RE STEAMED: MENTALLY ILL TENANTS DEMAND AIR CONDITIONING Adult home residents and owners agree that air conditioning is a necessity, but will the state foot the bill? City Limits Weekly (August 5, 2005) by Cassi Feldman – Irene Kaplan was on her way to a doctor’s appointment on July 15 when she started feeling dizzy. She had the driver turn around and take her home, but she didn’t make it past the lobby, she said. Read the story here.
- 2005 – Adult Home Residents Speak Out: New York Nonprofit Press (April 2005) Voice of the Consumer, pg. 13 – “In 2002, when Clifford Levy of the New York Times wrote his Pulitzer Prizewinning expose of the Adult Home system, the general public was shocked….One group was not shocked at all, because it knew all to well the plight of 12,000 New Yorkers with mental disabilities living in Adult Homes.” download PDF article
- 2005 – Residents Bring ‘Homes’ to Albany to Protest: The Legislative Gazette (January 31, 2005), By Etanjalie Narraph, staff writer- After driving from New York City during a snowstorm, a group of adult home residents carried four boxes representing their homes into the mental and hygiene budget hearing last week in protest. – download PDF article
Broken Homes – A Three-part Series on Conditions in Adult Homes by award winning journalist, Clifford Levy.
- “A yearlong investigation by The New York Times of adult homes for the mentally ill found neglect, malfeasance and death.” Read the articles here, as well as The NYT’s extensive follow-up coverage.