Register Today for the FREE Law & Disability Issues Conference
Join us on May 9th from 9am-1pm at the New Jersey Law Center in
New Brunswick, where the Community Health Law Project will host a
Free Law & Disability Issues Conference open to all. This
year's sessions include Integrated Care-Behavioral Health,
Physical Health and Social Determinant...
Register Today for The FREE Law and Disability Conference
Registration is now open for The Law and Disability Conference
hosted by CHLP on May 9th.
To learn more about this FREE conference or to register,visit...
Law and Disability Conference
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Medical-Legal Partnerships
CHLP's Director of Litigation, Erika Kerber, Esq., recently
presented a webinar on Medical-Legal Partnerships, hosted by The
Arc of New Jersey. Below is the PowerPoint presentation.
Medical-Legal
Partnerships from The Arc of New Jersey
on Vimeo
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New Jersey Governor Signs Emergency Assistance Legislation
Governor Murphy has signed into law legislation that extends
Emergency Assistance to people who are caretakers of disabled
dependents, permanently disabled, over 60 or who are chronically
unemployable. ?
Read more here ->
https://www.njspotlight.com/ stories/19/01/02/emergency-
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The Grove Street PATH Elevator To Open on June 30, 2017
The Port Authority of New York and NJ (PANY&NJ) issued a
press release on Friday, June 30, 2017, announcing that the
elevator and vertical life at the Grove Street PATH station had
finally opened.
The $4,000,000 elevator, ordered by a federal judge in 2011, took
two years to const...
PATH Station Elevator To Open
Nearly 16 years after advocates for wheelchair users first
demanded access to the Grove Street PATH station, crews are
putting the final touches on the station's new elevator. The
$4,000,000 elevator, located at the corner of Grove Street and
Columbus Drive, is set to open on July 2, acco...
Settlement Reached in PATH Accessibility Lawsuit
The Port Authority, hip (Heightened Independence and Progress, Inc.) and the United Spinal Association reached a settlement in a 7-year-old lawsuit over disabled access to the Grove Street PATH station.The two groups, hip, represented by the Community Health Law Project; and the United Spinal Associ...
Newark Star-Ledger article on CHLP
Lawyer grew into his strong suit: Protecting rights of disabled
Posted by Bob Braun/The Star-Ledger November 17, 2008 12:05AM
Hal Garwin has become New Jersey's most prominent legal advocate
for the disabled. That's not what he intended.
"I never thought it would be the focus of my ...