Please contact our NJ elected officials and let them know that it's not ok to terminate enriching, community-based services for me and other disabled young adults at 21, forcing us to choose between spending the rest of our lives in inadequate hospital-like institutions or back at home without the therapies and socialization that we need.
EMAIL CONTACTS:
My parents have reached out to all these people, and you can too.
Governor of New Jersey, Jon Corzine
NJ Senators Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez
Our NJ State Assemblyman, John Rooney; Our NJ State Assemblywoman, Charlotte Vandervalk; and our NJ State Senator, Gerald Cardinale
Our Congressman, Scott Garrett
Our county executive, Dennis McNerney
Loretta Weinberg, Vice-Chair of the Health and Human Services Committee of the NJ State Senate
Or you can look up your elected representatives anywhere in the United States by zip code here.
These politicians are not our enemies. We just have to remind them, nicely and politely, that their job is to be advocate and ally for all of us, and especially for those most in need. You can use the letter that my mom and dad wrote to the governor, or you can write your own, or you can tell these elected officials to visit my website and read it themselves.
Or you can share my story with our local publications, like The Bergen (NJ) Record and/or The Star Ledger
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