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THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS the fact that progress in the PSC’s special COVIDdents and adults, while modeling it. For this 19 (Case 20-M-0266) proreason, we should strive to increase the caceeding has completely Continued from page 12 pacity to teach, monitor, and build SEL comstalled. This is worspetencies. Social workers and interns are ened by the inexplicable, a platform that is attuned to the demonstra- severely underrepresented and at this time, almost complete failure tion of SEL skills and competencies and also, we must change this. Now is the time for by the State’s Office of to teach these skills as well. The program schools and districts to partner with comTemporary Disability Ashas amassed great success in advancing SEL munity-based organizations and nearby insistance (“OTDA”), the skills among its students and is a model for stitutions of higher learning to ensure the funnel though which bildistricts to consider. social-emotional wellness of young people. lions of dollars of federal There is a unique opportunity and perrelief to consumers must haps responsibility for us to best position Kandra Knowles is a doctoral student at flow, to take any definitive support staff in schools and in out-of-school Fordham University and is an advocate for transparent and accountorganizations to serve the SEL needs of stu- student and adolescent wellness. able action. No plans have been put forward publicly by and OTDA do not act transparently until the next financial meltdown for the PSC and DPS to address the un- and decisively now, they are doom- those hit hardest by COVID-19—comprecedented debt crisis and reduce ing millions of New Yorkers to crush- munities of color, low-income and the impending threats of shutoffs in ing unnecessary and unpaid utility medically vulnerable households, and a manner compliant with the Home debt, and their communities to years seniors—to recover financially. Energy Fair Practices Act, or the fed- of economic depression. erally funded Emergency Rent and It took more than a decade for New Kevin Parker is a New York State senUtility Assistance Program (“ERAP”). York’s economically vulnerable house- ator (D-21). Richard Berkley, Esq., is Regardless of those lost opportuni- holds to bounce back from the Great executive director and Ian Donaldson ties, it is irrefutably clear: the time Recession. If our regulators contin- is communications aide of the Public to act was a year ago, but if the PSC ue to drag their feet, it might just take Utility Law Project of New York.
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rights, rather than vice-versa. The task will be worsened by lack of internet or telephone or language access problems, and these vulnerable households will undoubtedly be harmed by these barriers to accessing the legal rights created by the Parker-Richardson Moratorium Act. Finally, the DPS has not required utilities to tell their customers to first avail themselves of the myriad federal and state programs that offer financial assistance to consumers in arrears, before seeking a deferred payment agreement that could begin resolving their arrears, but also cut them off from further government help if given in the wrong order. These failures to communicate basic consumer rights and needs in the face of the pandemic-caused arrears crisis are harmful enough on their own but are compounded by
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