Community Access expands opportunities for people living with mental health concerns to recover from trauma and discrimination. (RTs are not endorsements.)

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Baez Place Apartments lottery is now open! Our beautiful new building, located at 334 East 176th Street in the Bronx, will open this year. The housing lottery is now open. Apply today for an affordable studio, one-, two-, or three-bedroom apartment! nyshcr.my.site.com/housing/s
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Exciting news from the Bronx! @News12 stopped by Baez Place, our newest supportive housing development, as part of their Rebuilding the Bronx series. We’re honored to be shaping the Bronx’s future by creating homes and strengthening community. youtube.com/watch?v=mu9WZukK…
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🚽NYC: Relief is officially on the way! Today, my bathroom bill Int. 694 was passed with a veto-proof majority and will create the city’s first public bathroom network. Doubling the number of bathrooms by 2035 because everyone deserves to be #FreeToPee
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Jordyn Rosenthal, Director of Advocacy @ca_nyc: "We need peers - people with LIVED mental health experience - to be in these teams. Coercion DOES NOT WORK. We need PEERS not police" #crisistocare
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NYers deserve mental health and public safety systems that center evidenced-based solutions, follow best medical practices, and provide decent wages and training for frontline workers
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Needed to go, but couldn’t find a bathroom in NYC? @NYCCouncil is considering 3 bills that would expand public bathrooms. Use our easy tool to tell your Council Member: public bathrooms are a priority! Take Action Today: ➡️ bit.ly/freetopee Everyone should be #FreeToPee!
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8 Aug 2024
Save the date for our next #PeersNotPolice rally on September 23rd at 9AM before the #BHEARD and #MentalHealthCrisisResponse systems in NYC. RSVP today at bit.ly/Rally923
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The Homeless Protection Act is more than just a legal safeguard - it's a step towards reaffirming all New Yorkers’ inherent worth and dignity, regardless of where they sleep at night. It's time to #PasstheHPA. @JeffreyDinowitz @jamaaltbailey citylimits.org/2024/05/31/op…

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RT @Vanessalgibson: So honored to join Community Access for its Good Neighbor Gala celebrating 50 years of incredible service in the Bronx…
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21 Mar 2024
“We are coming together to say you cannot pit us against each other. We can have decarceration and public safety,” CCIT-NYC’s Jordyn Rosenthal
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"It's so important that we have parity and bring our older programs into the modern age," said @TheNetworkNY executive director Pascale Leone. The Network's new report on the state of #supportivehousing sheds light on the disparity among programs. Via @NY1:nystateofpolitics.com/state-…
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28 Mar 2024
Our official statement regarding the horrendous tragedy that ended Win Rozario’s young life. We can no longer militarize our responses to mental health crises. #PeeraNotPolice
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28 Feb 2024
SAVE THE DATE! We are holding a #PeersNotPolice budget rally on 3/21 at 9AM. RSVP Today --> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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Urge your @NYSAssembly & @NYSenate representatives to sign onto budget letters to leadership stressing critical need to raise funding for the dangerously underfunded New York State Supportive Housing Program (NYSSHP)! Toolkit here: bit.ly/3uogPwW
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80% of the workers caring for people affected by homelessness are women of color, but the top ranks of the organizations that employ them are overwhelmingly white. Chinetta Mitchell and Chandra Redfern are working to change that. Via @CityLimitsNews: citylimits.org/2024/01/26/op…

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24 Jan 2024
#NYLPI's William Juhn and William Eck, #DisabilityJustice, pose with #DanielsLaw supporters in Albany last week. Read the full event recap here: nylpi.org/event-recap-nylpi-… @SenatorBrouk @ca_NYC @NAMINYCMetro @DanielsLaw_NY @TNJAct @HarryBBronson
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Housing Visions first-hand account on why @GovKathyHochul must save the 9K at-risk NYSSHP funded #supportivehousing apts by converting to better funded ESSHI program to "ensure some of our most vulnerable neighbors get the support & stability they need:" syracuse.com/opinion/2024/01…
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.@NYCMayor, cutting housing & homelessness agencies in the City budget will have devastating impacts on our #supportivehousing system, our best tool for solving chronic homelessness. Do not cut homelessness & housing agencies! #NOPEGS #NOCUTS #savesupportivehousing @theNetworkNY
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