Sunny Days Consulting Services, Middletown

10/19/2023

☀️ Stop by and see us on Saturday Oct 21 at the Galleria At Crystal Run for a Resource Fair organized by Gifted Children, Inc.! 💙

08/24/2023

☀️Our Middletown, NY location was recognized by the Orange County Chamber of Commerce, NY on Tuesday, August 22, 2023, with a ribbon-cutting celebration! In addition to Sunny Days Middletown staff, in attendance were Sunny Days Co-CEO & Co-Founder, Joyce Salzberg, Sunny Days CFO, Josh Frankel, Sunny Days Program Director of New York, David Salzberg, the Chamber’s Membership Coordinator, Frank Marino, and Sunny Days Ambassador, Alyssa Marchinek. Delicious treats were provided by Gina's Kitchen & Handmade Creations and Dream Donuts Warwick NY. Many thanks to the Chamber for this honor and congratulations to our wonderful Middletown team! 💙

08/01/2023

Last week our staff and their families enjoyed an ice cream social and being outside catching up with one another 🍦☀️

04/07/2023

We've officially moved our page over to Sunny Days Early Childhood Developmental Services, Inc.. Please follow us here!

03/20/2023

Imitation - why it’s important, read about it in the newest blog post.

Imitation is the start of all learning. Babies and toddlers use this cognitive strategy from the minute they are born. But how do they learn to imitate?

03/18/2023

Some of our Middletown therapists recently took one of her fabulous trainings.

☀️ Congratulations 🎉 to our very own Kathleen V. Flatley, MS, OTR, who has been selected as a subject matter specialist and proposal reviewer for the ZERO TO THREE LEARN 2023 Conference! Kathleen's background as an , , Adjunct Professor and member of the Training and Quality Assurance Team at Sunny Days made her a great fit for this amazing opportunity! The conference will focus on the latest research, promising practices and policy strategies in the field and how issues of equity can be addressed for children and families. This go to event will take place 9/19/23 to 9/20/23 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Maybe we will see you there! 💙

03/04/2023

Over Half of EI Children are NOT Receiving Their Services!

Dear Early Intervention Supporter,

In less than four weeks the future of our Early Intervention Program will be decided by the State Legislature. After decades of stagnant rates in the face of rising costs and inflation, the Governor still has recommended NO INCREASE in the Early Intervention Program.

EI rates are less in 2023 than they were in 2009. As a result, nearly two thousand rendering providers have left the EI program in the past four years, and 65 agencies have been forced out of business, largely because of inadequate revenue. The State Legislature needs to step in and do what the Governor refuses to do, which is to provide a rate increase in the state budget. Even the NY State Comptroller weighed in last week on the lack of providers necessary to serve all the needs of our children, finding that over half of EI children did not receive all types of services to which they were entitled!

The Legislature will respond if they hear from you and enough of your colleagues and friends. For them to care enough to amend the Governor’s budget to include an EI Rate increase the Legislature needs to know that YOU CARE! The Department of Health’s very own Early Intervention Coordinating Council (EICC) has passed a resolution calling for an 11% rate increase THIS YEAR, and we agree. We know that without a rate increase even more therapists will leave the program, even more agencies will close, and even fewer children will be served. That would make the current devastating situation even more tragic.

But you can do something about that today! Simply respond here to email key State Assembly Members and Senators urging them to act before it’s too late. If enough of us do this, we will win. We will save the EI Program, and we will rebuild and strengthen the crucial supports needed by thousands of children. PLEASE respond to this call to action TODAY. Just a few seconds of your time will help to SAVE THE EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAM.

Dear Early Intervention Supporter, In less than four weeks the future of our Early Intervention Program will be decided by the State Legislature. After decades of stagnant rates in the face of ris...

03/02/2023

Food Resources

02/11/2023

If anyone is looking for a CPR class.

12/10/2022

It’s cookie season - not only a great time to bond as a family but the mixing, pouring, and decorating task of making cookies has many fine motor and sensory benefits. 🍪

12/10/2022

Before they start school, most children develop an understanding of addition and subtraction through everyday interactions. Learn what informal activities give children a head start on early math skills when they start school.