2024 CDD Year In Review.
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Housing Stories Trailer
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Council Overview
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DREAM 2024 Picture Slideshow
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2024 Advocacy Institute
2:32
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Ketrina's Advocacy Journey
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CCD Disability Pride   Xavier
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6 ай бұрын
CDD Disability Pride   Bernard
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CDD Disability Pride   Jackie
0:17
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CDD Disability Pride   Kay
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CDD Disability Pride   Ketrina
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CDD Disability Pride   Shameka
0:16
DD Proud 2024
2:56
6 ай бұрын
Full Council Meeting June 2024
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@valeriekelly7971
@valeriekelly7971 15 күн бұрын
I grew up with Bernard’s siblings on Staten Island and Geraldo Rivera will always hold a place in my heart for his work at Willowbrook
@brendanperry6429
@brendanperry6429 17 күн бұрын
Civil Rights Advocate Massachusetts Governor Maura T. Healey Gets Sued for $25M; Corruption Related Federal Civil Rights Violations
@myronslilslavegirl
@myronslilslavegirl 22 күн бұрын
Bernard's looking wonderful for his age. I'm so glad he's able to freely speak of what truly happened there. I hope one day, we can get an update on him n how his life has been since Leaving the gates of hell he wz forced to call home 😢😢😢😢 I'm sorry. I cannot feel any pity for the ppl who lost their children there. They dumped them there n turned their backs bcz they were embarrassed by them n their disability. Truly, it's their own fault what happened
@sivam33j5
@sivam33j5 22 күн бұрын
Look in the ground,,,mass graves?
@Deanna-lh5jy
@Deanna-lh5jy 23 күн бұрын
Now all of this is on our city streets its not shut up in a building hoping no one would ever see it its out there for everyone to see and we just walk by and do nothing shame on our government in this country for doing nothing for these people They have shut down ALL the mental hospitals these people now have no one there pooping and peeing on the sidewalks sleeping on sidewalks Drugs are a major a problem . Money is always the problem they never want to hire enough staff to run these places like nurses and nurses aids and maintenance housekeeping and so on what they do o is keep taking on patients with no staff to take care of them They do this today in hospitals nothing like willowbrook but that do do it and it boils down to making money . at the cost of human lives .
@OGLarry316
@OGLarry316 23 күн бұрын
Pennhurst?
@Pam730
@Pam730 26 күн бұрын
My uncle was born in Schenectady, NY in 1941. He had cerebral palsy and as such, the doctors told my grandparents that he would most likely pass before his teenage years so it would be best for him to go into an institution. My grandparents said we are taking our boy home! Thankfully, as he well may have ended up in Willowbrook. Instead, he lived a life filled with love and a large extended family. He was quite spoiled actually. And the best part? He lived to celebrate his 70th birthday! I always told him that I would see him "upstairs" one day and the first place I would search for him would be the best fishing spot on the Jordan river. Rest in peace Uncle Archie Boy! We love and miss you so much! 1941-2011
@SteveSmith-kf9on
@SteveSmith-kf9on 26 күн бұрын
Years after the aftermath of WWII ? What excuse?
@GrammysBusBandits
@GrammysBusBandits 27 күн бұрын
My brother was at Willowbrook then Kings Park
@streetvan1997
@streetvan1997 Ай бұрын
Yeah you know what changed ? Reagan shut down all state hospitals in early 80’s literally taking people who had been heavily medicated for decades and with zero aftercare plan bused them into cities and dropped them off still in their hospital gowns. It’s such a dark part of US History. The care of the mentally ill being mistreated goes on. In fact I’m one of them and could be homeless soon. 35% of homeless are seriously mentally ill and 70% dealing with some sort of mental illness. Instead of housing these people America has decided they should let themselves fend for themselves on the streets. Meanwhile that money basically has been spent on mass increase in prisons. Guess there wasn’t enough money to made off mentally ill. If this incoming administration makes these cuts that help keep people like me at least with a roof over their heads it will be horrible. And with some healthcare. I’ll end up in the ER every few days and will cost way way way way more. It makes no sense. But sense and actually how to take care of issues is not many people in powers goal. Most of their goals are to make money for them and their friends. Or special interest groups. Our country is so sick with how it deals with too many issues. This belief that the free market can fix every issue is just stupid
@flawedexistence
@flawedexistence Ай бұрын
And many Americans are calling for the reopening of "Mental Institutions". I work in a highly understaffed Maximum Security Correctional Center. Equally as evil. It hurts my heart every day. At work or not. Dehumanized, caged humans are beyond comprehension. This is 2024 and yet we still lock humans in cages. Psychiatric institutions become dehumanizing very quickly. The environment is toxic and many of the people who will work in large institutions whether Psychiatric or Correctional are not the people you want in a position of any kind of responsibility. I am aware of the line between myself and inmates. But that doesn't diminish my humanity. It is heartbreaking.
@Troy-y5b
@Troy-y5b Ай бұрын
Bernard just warms my heart when i see where he is in life. Treat people like family. JUST BE KIND
@CristySFM1234
@CristySFM1234 Ай бұрын
Geraldo shouldn't say shit, he has backed people who have tried defending the system Willowbrook and other mental asylums worked under with him working with a "news" agency who has a long history of derogatory redoric towards people with mental disorders
@pizzatime3752
@pizzatime3752 Ай бұрын
Hello. I would like for everyone to know about the Judge Rotenburg Center in Massachusetts. This is one of the modern day WillowBrooks. They shock, and occasionally kill, their disabled patients and these methods have not yet been banned. Many autistic children from New York are sent here, and their rights are stripped from themselves and their parents and given to the center. They cannot leave, they are starved, they are beaten, they are turned into mindless husk zombies and are not allowed to cry out for help. Please look up Jen Msumba’s videos on this topic and educate yourselves if you would like to stop this inhumane treatment. She is a resident who survived and is sharing her story. Thank you.
@AngelsVoiceASMR
@AngelsVoiceASMR Ай бұрын
My mom worked for fairview home in Oregon and it had the same conditions. It also sterilized life long patients so they would not knock each other up. In 2014 oregons governor Kitshoper (sp?) apologized publicly to the families of the patients. It is closed down and now abandoned.
@penny6170
@penny6170 Ай бұрын
After my mother witnessed behind the scenes and learned that her beloved sister was infected hepatitis by being fed feces she promptly committed suicide in 1972.
@mattster-nw2xn
@mattster-nw2xn Ай бұрын
There is a downside to the change away from the developmental center model. Community inclusion, deinstitutionalization, and normalization has pushed the intermediate care facilities(ICF) to the front for residential options with the dd population. State-by-state, residents are pushed out of the system to private organizations responsible for their care. Within the ICF, there is less accountability from a fox-building-the-henhouse effect. From a centralized community where residents and staff are familiar, we have moved to placing residents interspersed in less-than-welcoming neighborhoods where essential services are diluted and distanced. Part of this is due to each state's annual kabuki dance to cut programs and slash spending. This is not to fault the people that have dedicated their careers to this field before or after, but to give voice to the other side of the coin.
@annmarie1689
@annmarie1689 Ай бұрын
The music while people were talking about such an important issue, was utterly annoying .
@fuquYew
@fuquYew Ай бұрын
Ts just pissed me tf off
@Guy-h5w
@Guy-h5w Ай бұрын
,💫🤪ty think globally act locally
@anamariecameron7874
@anamariecameron7874 2 ай бұрын
this show that government and people do not care about
@anamariecameron7874
@anamariecameron7874 2 ай бұрын
I have a learning disability and I am sure that I would have been in the place like that
@anamariecameron7874
@anamariecameron7874 2 ай бұрын
to all of the government you are to blame for the murded of these kids
@anamariecameron7874
@anamariecameron7874 2 ай бұрын
shame on those evil so called family members
@anamariecameron7874
@anamariecameron7874 2 ай бұрын
sadly these places did not help anyone they murded thousands of people
@claire5399
@claire5399 22 күн бұрын
True.
@anamariecameron7874
@anamariecameron7874 2 ай бұрын
💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
@familylove5412
@familylove5412 2 ай бұрын
NYS IS CORRUPT AND ALWAYS WILL BE AND ALL THESR LAWS ARE BROKEN ALL HE TIME AND NOTHING IS OR WILL EVER BE DONE ABOUT IT....
@familylove5412
@familylove5412 2 ай бұрын
NYS ISNT SHYT BUT A CORRUPT STATE AND ALWAYS WILL BE
@rawdawg9381
@rawdawg9381 2 ай бұрын
coached interviews, ironically taking advantage of the mentally disabled for a pr stunt with Rfk and geraldo. Now these same disabled people are on our streets, homeless, and being taken advantage of
@rawdawg9381
@rawdawg9381 2 ай бұрын
this asylum in particular was understaffed and over occupied, big fahkin surprise that things will go wrong. After this stunt we went from about 500 to around 200 state run asylums. Congratulations
@revoakes8984
@revoakes8984 2 ай бұрын
A dear friend of mine was called in to conduct rehabilitative dance therapy (which is much more than it sounds) with the Willowbrook victims immediately after this expose had halted its previous functioning. She described to me many scenes much worse even than the ones depicted here. e.g. concrete-floored rooms sloped to drains in the center, around which were chained naked inmates. They were fed with slop and mashed potatoes, by an attendant who went around the room shoveling the food into the inmates' mouths with big tablespoons without regard to choking. The inmates were then hosed down to wash away the food, vomit, feces, etc. into the drains. There were other similarly shocking descriptions of the dehumanization and physical and mental cruelty and neglect of these people, many of whom were not even actually below normal in intelligence, just hampered in some way such as speech impediments, hearing or vision deficits, dyslexia, etc., or subject to ills such as epilepsy etc. But this should NEVER be forgotten: Something that people simply don't, and perhaps can't believe, because of the hard wiring of the human brain, is that absolutely ANYthing that one can possibly imagine the most horrible person on earth could think of doing to another human being.. is being done right now, in institutions such as this, in jails or prisons, or churches, or any place else where people are placed in charge of others. It is being done also in families, in homes that appear nice on the outside, by people who are upstanding, respected members of the community, including your next-door neighbors.....
@melissamartin632
@melissamartin632 2 ай бұрын
Absolutely horrifying and heartbreaking that these children were living in these conditions These administrators and those who treated these children this way should have been punished to the fullest extent of the law. How can anyone be so cruel and inhumane? I'm glad they were finally exposed and shut down
@pennyatkins1663
@pennyatkins1663 2 ай бұрын
Very good and interesting
@frankschiro7387
@frankschiro7387 2 ай бұрын
So sad 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
@ddylla85
@ddylla85 2 ай бұрын
Improper funding turned these places into warehouses of horror. Moral Treatment Dr. Thomas Storey Kirkbride and Dorothea Dix pioneered a century prior worked.
@claire5399
@claire5399 22 күн бұрын
This is where the government would love to hide the homeless, the poor, the physically disabled, people in chronic intractable pain. Hide people away who should have never been institutionalized to begin with.
@RondaStar
@RondaStar 2 ай бұрын
This happens in Graylands they fors drugs Western Australia
@michaelhager2846
@michaelhager2846 2 ай бұрын
Government covered up , SRA been happening a long long time 😢😮
@michaelhager2846
@michaelhager2846 2 ай бұрын
These institutions been around a long time , disabled and people against the government installed under a "corporation" 😢😮
@MegaMastiffman
@MegaMastiffman 2 ай бұрын
What change?? What outpatient?? BS the fix is in. The amount of tax we pay these people should easily be cared for through state land and incentives for people to work there but that won’t happen because if it did how could Politicians steal most of there funding???
@dawndid5972
@dawndid5972 2 ай бұрын
Thank you, Mr. Carabello, Mr. Rivera and Mr. Kennedy for your service to our people. Good friends for fifty.
@emiilyjaane7
@emiilyjaane7 3 ай бұрын
This is so heartbreaking. My mother in law who worked for The State for 30 yrs told me about WillowBrook. She worked for BDC (Broome Developmental Center) as an LPN. When they got rid of the center they moved all the "clients" to houses as groups. She worked in one of those state houses and took care of a man named Tom, for many years. Tom is the last living patient in our county from WillowBrook. Tom has no family,and was left at WillowBrook as a child. Sadly my mil passed away, and Tom really was left confused and thought she left him too. The first time they took him on an outting past her house, he asked to come inside because that's what my mil used to do, She was all he had. Tom is still alive, and has been a ward of the state for 80+yrs. 😢 Tom is an amazing, sweet hearted, funny loving person. He loves music and dancing, going on adventures, he loves the dollar tree, and concerts. My mil used to pick me up and we would take Tom to the movies. I will forever be grateful, that I was able to help my mil make a difference in his life. And I will continue to embrace Tom until my time is up. They are just like us! Human ! None of us are perfect. I can't get through this without crying for all of the victims. I pray that have all found peace & don't even remember living that life.
@pammulholland8687
@pammulholland8687 3 ай бұрын
Children do not belong in institutions of any kind.
@pammulholland8687
@pammulholland8687 3 ай бұрын
The parents of these children with physical and learning challenges threw away their children because they didn't want to raise them. If you don't visit and don't know how your child is doing, you are negligent and fully culpable.
@dominikz.1376
@dominikz.1376 3 ай бұрын
I wish they touched more on the good side of things and some of the Closeness and warmth Willowbrook DID have, and the goodness of institutions. But no. Now we have small foster homes, workers with low pay no unions and no pensions, and secret places of abuse and filth much the same as all the bad things shown at Geraldo's exposè report. As a highly educated kin folk in the field, i believe institutionalization, electroconvulsive therapy, and the transorbital lobotomy should be brought back to lessen the suffering amongst ethically minded individuals 😊
@bditman4740
@bditman4740 3 ай бұрын
I learned my nursary rymes becasuse they were painted on walls of the vistors area and the wards, My sister was a resident and we would visit weekly or as often as we could, Every Person who is in charge of or sits on IEP meetings should have to watch this and the orginal story.
@emiilyjaane7
@emiilyjaane7 3 ай бұрын
At BDC (Broome Developmental Center) It IS mandatory that this is watched the first week on the job.
@bditman4740
@bditman4740 2 ай бұрын
@@emiilyjaane7 that brings me comfort, i am stunned by how many people working in the field are uneducated about this. That makes me sad and angry.
@hiranursargul9635
@hiranursargul9635 3 ай бұрын
Ellen marie wiseman sayesinde yazdığı kitabı okuyarak ( kayıp ruhlar durağı ) böyle bir yerin varlığını bile bilmiyordum. İyi ki alıp okumuşum. Okurken bile kanım dondu yaşanılan onca şeyler iğrenç ve mide bulandırıcıydı. Şimdi KZbin dan araştırdım ve bu belgeseli gördüm iyice kötü oldum çok zor hayat yaşamışlar çok üzüldüm ve gerçekten çok yazık... Kapatılmasına çok sevdim. Umarım böyle bir şey olmaz Ama şuan da Filistin'de yaşayan bebek ve çocuklarının ölümüyle eş değer tutulmayacak düzeyde Allah onlarında yardımcısı olsun. Her şeyi bilip görmek duymak da pek bir işe yaramıyor gibi Zamanında orda çalışanların bir şey yapmadığı gibi şuan da da Filistinde onca bebek ve çocukların ölmesiyle hiç bir ülke dur diyememesi gibi bir şey... Gerçekten iğrenç bir toplumun içindeyiz. Ne merhamet ne de vicdan kalmış. Yazık gerçekten.
@Cherish..2
@Cherish..2 4 ай бұрын
I read The Lost Girls of Willowbrook by Ellen Marie Wiseman based on this Institution. Though fiction you felt the nightmare of this place
@jennifer_m.8613
@jennifer_m.8613 4 ай бұрын
To an extent, these places need to be brought back for the mentally disabled who can not be integrated in to society for whatever reason, those who can not even perform the most basic life skills.
@emiilyjaane7
@emiilyjaane7 3 ай бұрын
Here in our County, We have homes called "State houses" They are in groups no more than 10 individuals and are seperated by gender. We have "The Center" where all off the individuals used to be kept, But they were moved to the houses, to make the "clients" feel like they had some where to call home, and live a decent life. We got 15 WillowBrook "patients" in our county and only 1 is living now, which I know him personally. He is sweet,kind funny and intelligent. They don't need to be trapped in a big building for the rest of their lives. Just because they are "different" and can't do "basic life skills" doesn't mean they don't deserve to walk among us.
@aleksandrgroys7020
@aleksandrgroys7020 4 ай бұрын
Willowbrook is now fully religious jewish neighborhood But modern orthodox & litvish that live there I would give a name SODOM & AMMORA Nice on outside Evil talkers and doers on inside INSIDIOUS Enjou trip there, see 4 yourselves
@lindap8535
@lindap8535 4 ай бұрын
We can send billions to fight a war in Ukraine. Yet many of those considered developmentally disability today are the homeless we see on the streets this very day. Due to a lack of resources, funding, and legislative action or want to care for these people. I work ata state institution for the developmentally delayed population. Each patient has a guardian. Either be a parent, relative, or sometimes state appointed. The social security payments given for the patients care is given directly to the guardians. They are only required by law to give the patient $30 a month and keep the rest. A few hundred a month pocketed by the guardian paid for by tax payers, and they don't bother to visit. Many times, they deny the patient being placed in a group home situation where they could live a more normal independent life & make decisions for themselves.
@lindap8535
@lindap8535 4 ай бұрын
There is still work to be done. I work at a state run mental Healthcare facility as a psych nurse. Many times, I have been physically abused by patients and told that it is the cost of working there. We are constantly short staffed and mandated constantly to work double shifts. You can't make plans in your personal life due to the mandation policies. We are overworked. The patients receive good care. There needs to be more advocacy for workers in these state run institutions to make people aware of a career in this field, and there are good paying jobs available at these facilities.
@emiilyjaane7
@emiilyjaane7 3 ай бұрын
Back then, Were different times. Imagine being 1 nurse with 30+ individuals. Most of the nurses who lived on site would end up committing su!c!de because of what they went through. Also Nobody back then kept a child that was "different" that's why the institutions were over crowded, unlike now Alot of the families take care of their developmentally delayed family members. My Mil worked for the state as an LPN for 30 yrs and I have learned a lot and heard alot.