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Registration is now open for DDI's 2019 Annual Golf Classic.

“NYS risks failing in its constitutional obligation” without living wage funding for direct care workers

Order your Valentine a beautiful basket made by the talented individuals supported at DDI!

On January 24th, DDI’s Adult Residential Services hosted its second Men’s Health and Wellness event at our Meadow Glen campus. More than eighty individuals attended the event eager to learn more after hearing about the success of the Women’s Health and Wellness evening just a few months prior.

Long Island health care providers will receive nearly $16 million to expand services, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s office announced Tuesday.

Dr. James Powell Jr., chief medical officer of Long Island Select Healthcare Inc. in Central Islip, said the company will purchase equipment such as stethoscopes, oxygen detectors and devices to perform EKGs. Photo Credit: James Carbone

**Pointed Message Greets Millions of Visitors to “The Crossroads of the World”

**ALBANY – #bFair2DirectCare today unveiled a 5,000-sq-foot billboard over Times Square that urges Gov. Andrew Cuomo to fund a living wage for direct care workers who support New Yorkers with developmental disabilities. The Governor failed to include living wage funding in his $176 billion budget proposal, even though it would amount to 0.05% of the total.

Today is #NationalWearRedDay. One in three. That's the price women pay for cardiovascular disease.

Developmental Disabilities Institute (DDI) has joined forces with the New York City Art World for the “Acceptance – Unity through Art” exhibit.

If you have not purchased the 2019 Main Street Masterpieces Calendar, it's not too late.

The Brookhaven Town Disability Task Force presents the Annual Youth Abilities Resource Fair. The new date is Saturday, April 27th, 2019.