Resources
Housing Access Voucher Program Support Letter From Service Providers
February 15, 2022
Letter to : Honorable Governor Kathy HochulHonorable Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-CousinsHonorable Speaker Carl H. Heastie NYS Capitol Building, Albany, NY 12224 The Housing Access Voucher Program is the Tool...
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Methadone
February 10, 2022
Improving Health and Empowering Patients in Opioid Treatment ProgramsHepatitis C, Overdose Prevention, Syringe Exchange, Buprenorphine& Other Opportunities to Make Programs Work For Patients By: VOCAL-NY and the Urban Justice Center
2022-2023 Legislative Platform
February 7, 2022
VOCAL-NY is dedicated to ending the AIDS epidemic, drug war, mass incarceration and homelessness in New York State. We do this by building the power of low-income people directly impacted...
2022-2023 State Budget Platform
February 7, 2022
VOCAL-NY is dedicated to ending the AIDS epidemic, drug war, mass incarceration and homelessness in New York State. We do this by building the power of low-income people directly impacted...
Drug Policy Roadmap for Governor Hochul’s First 45 Days in Office
August 25, 2021
Newly-inaugurated Governor Hochul has an urgent responsibility to course-correct a decade of harm from Cuomo’s inaction on New York’s overdose crisis.
Overdose Prevention Package Memo
August 17, 2021
On August 31st, for the last twenty years, the global community has observed International Overdose Awareness Day as a day to commemorate those lost to overdose, and to urge action...
Report: Stuck in the System and Expanding Syringe Access
June 3, 2021
Read VOCAL-NY’s report Stuck in the System: Expanding Syringe Access by Reconciling the Penal Code with the Public Health Law.
VOCAL-NY’s Homelessness Union Letter to Speaker Corey Johnson, Urging the Council to Vote on Intro146
May 20, 2021
We are the leaders of VOCAL-NY -- we represent the thousands of people who spend every night suffering indignity and danger inside city shelters.
Fact Sheet: Down Payment Toward a Caring & Compassionate New Deal for New York City
April 23, 2021
Following the release of the Caring & Compassionate New Deal for New York City report, VOCAL-NY released a set of proposals for the New York City Council to adopt and...
VOCAL-NY New York City Budget Demands
April 23, 2021
during budget negotiations for the 2021/22 fiscal year.