ACTS advocates for support of early childhood special needs programs to ensure young children receive the help they need
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Formed in 2002, Agencies for Children’s Therapy Services (ACTS) is an association of 40 agencies providing Early Intervention, Pre-K, and School-Age Special Education services.
The agencies of ACTS predominantly provide service in home and community settings, through sub-contracts with independent therapists, though we also provide facility-based individual/collateral, parent-child group, group developmental intervention, and family/caregiver support group services. The clinical focus includes the full spectrum of services, including evaluations, therapy, and service coordination.
ACTS is the first and most active organization that solely represents the views of Early Intervention Providers who predominantly serve children and families in their home and community settings. We serve over 30,000 infants, toddlers, and preschoolers in all five boroughs of New York City, as well as Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland, the Mid-Hudson Region, the Capital District, and the North Country.
Learn about about ACTS and our mission.
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Agencies for Children’s Therapy Services SFY 2023-2024 State Budget Testimony Joint Legislative Budget Hearing on Health
Good afternoon, Chairs Krueger, Weinstein, Rivera and Paulin, and committee members. I am Scott Mesh, a Board Member of the Agencies for Children’s Therapy Services (ACTS), an association of 31 agencies providing Early Intervention, Pre-K, Special Education, and...
Public Comments in Response to NYSDOH Revised Regulations for the Early Intervention Program – HLT-39-22-00020-RP
Public Comments from Agencies for Children’s Therapy Services in Response to NYSDOH Notice of Revised Regulations for the Early Intervention Program – HLT-39-22-00020-RP
ACTS Fights to Protect Professional Scope of Practice AND Parent Choice
The Department of Health issued proposed regulations that would create havoc in the evaluations and services of children who require Early Intervention. Over the strenuous objection of the State Early Intervention Coordinating Council (EICC), DOH is proposing that...
ACTS, Health Care, and Social Services Organizations: A Common Cause
ACTS filed a detailed set of objections and recommendations to the Governor’s and the Department of Health’s (DOH) proposed regulations to arbitrarily limit Industry Compensation at levels well below market standards for Early Intervention and other Health Care, Human...
NY Daily News: Tens of thousands of NY young children with developmental delays are not getting critical EI services
In this NY Daily News article, ACTS leads the urgent call for a long overdue rate increase in the NYS Early Intervention Program.
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