Victoria Schneps details the October 27th symposium remembering the Willowbrook Consent Decree that changed forever changed how people with special needs are provided with services, in her qns.com post.
In addition to Victoria Schneps, the symposium panelists included Beth Haroules, the director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, Henry Kennedy, a parent and attorney, Leonard Simmons, an attorney overseeing today the original Willowbrook State School clients still living, as well as Jose Rivera, whose brother lived at Willowbrook, and Marco Damiani, CEO of AHRC New York City, the largest provider of services to people in the class in New York State.
The event was hosted by the Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division’s First Department and the Historical Society of the New York Courts.
