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The Fight to Save Our WNY Children’s Psychiatric Center Continues in 2018!

A group of concerned parents, children, community activists, workers and elected officials came together in 2014 and initially stopped New York State from merging the WNY Children’s Psychiatric Center (WNYCPC) into the Adult Buffalo Psychiatric Center.  But the fight continues in 2018, as it did in 2015, as Governor Andrew Cuomo looks to close WNYCPC and relocate it into two stories within the Buffalo Psychiatric Center's Strozzi Building. If successful, this would be the only psychiatric facility across the entire state where children would be housed and treated in the same building as adult psychiatric patients.  As such, the degree of oversight deemed necessary to protect and keep separate those children from the adult population at the Buffalo Psychiatric Center would render these severely traumatized and emotionally fragile children in a virtual lockdown environment. No one thinks that’s a good idea! And that’s why we’re involved in saving our Western New York Children’s Psychiatric Center and keeping it in West Seneca where it needs to be!

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How You Can Help Keep WNYCPC In West Seneca!

Please take the time to call Governor Cuomo at this toll-free number: 1-877-255-9417. Press #1, then leave your message for the Governor. Tell him to keep the Western New York Children’s Psychiatric Center open in West Seneca and to not move these vulnerable children into the Adult Psychiatric Center in Buffalo. Thank you for taking the time to do so – it’s important!

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Save WNYCPC Coalition Thank You Celebration at the West Seneca Senior Center on September 15th from 12PM - 5PM Save WNYCPC Coalition Thank You Celebration at the West Seneca Senior Center on September 15th from 12PM - 5PM (click on flyer/card to download a PDF version)
Help Protect Our Most Precious Resource card Click on flyer/card to download a PDF version
letter to Gov. Cuomo Letter to Governor Cuomo expressing our outrage at the closing of the WNYCPC (click letter to download a PDF version)
sample letter to send to Gov. Cuomo Sample letter to send to Governor Cuomo expressing our outrage at the closing of the WNYCPC (click letter to download a PDF version)
WNY Group Files Lawsuit To Prevent Children’s Psychiatric Center Move press release WNY Group Files Lawsuit To Prevent Children’s Psychiatric Center Move press release (click letter to download a PDF version)