Alliance Advocacy Center

Our Advocacy Priorities

Add $3.8 million in Legslaitve Funding in the State Budget for SBHCs Negotiations on the 2023-24 proposed State Budget are nearly complete! Now is the time to restore funding levels for SBHCs to keep them operating and sustainable! SBHC sponsoring organizations had non-Medicaid grants funds disproportionately reduced in 2017 due a 20% across the board cut in the final 2017-18 State budget; and 27 SBHC sponsors saw additional cuts ranging from 25% to 70% of total non-Medicaid grant funds due to a distribution methodology change that same year. This is in addition to several, smaller previous cuts prior to 2017. That’s why it’s critical that you call your State Senate and Assembly representatives in Albany this week to ask them to add $3.8 million in legislatively added funds for School-Based Health Centers in this year's State budget. Click on the Budget Alert - Talking Points button above for talking points on this advocacy priority.

Keep SBHCs Carved Out of Managed Care! SBHCs have been carved out of Medicaid Managed Care, permanently, since 1985 and we'd like them to remain carved out. A09288/S08447 was vetoed late into 2022 despite a landslide of legislative and field support. S2339 is new legislation amending the social services law, in relation to coverage for services provided by school-based health centers and allows them to remain carved out of Medicaid Managed Care permanently.

Victories in 2022-2023 Budget

Extended (Delayed) SBHC's Carved-Out Medicaid Managed Care

The final Article VII Health and Mental Hygiene budget bill, provides that services provided in SBHCs shall not be provided to medical assistance recipients through managed care programs until at least April 1, two thousand twenty-three.
See Health and Mental Hygiene Article VII budget bill (S2507-C/A3007-C), page 40, Part JJ, attached, for additional details.

New York's SBHCs 2022-2023 Budget Win!

School- Based Health Centers have received full funding from the Executive (see bullet 2) as well as a $3,824,000 legislative add in the NYS 2022-2023 State Budget! The total amount of funding is at the same level as SFY 2021-22.
SBHCs will maintain the $17,098,000 in funds provided in the 2022-2023 proposed State Executive Budget.

Interested in advocating for New York’s SBHCs? Use our sbhc-legislator match list to see representative by sbhc address or use the Assembly and Senate buttons below.

NYSBHA's Legislative Center

Find your Assembly Member

Follow the button and input your street address and zip code to find your New York State Assembly Representative.

Visit your Assembly member’s page and locate the “Contact Me” button on the left to gather the phone numbers, email address, and contact form for your Assembly Member.

Find your Senator

Follow the button and input your street address and zip code to find your New York State Senator.

Click the button “Message Senator” and follow site instructions to create and account and send your Senator a message.

See Our SBHC/Legislator Match List!

Use the link to the right to see NYSBHA’s current sbhc directory and corresponding legislator list to find the right representative.

For any further questions or concerns regarding advocacy, contact us at: nysbha@gmail.com