Lower Hudson Task Force

About the Lower Hudson Task Force

The Lower-Hudson Task Force is committed to improving educational access and outcomes for students with disabilities through a collaborative regional and statewide network of stakeholders representing a variety of perspectives in addressing the special education needs of students in Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester counties, as well as New York State.

Get On Our List...

The Lower Hudson Special Education Task Force has an online mail list to share information about upcoming events and to allow  Executive Council members to share information with other Task Force participants. In an effort to avoid overwhelming your inbox, use of the mail list is limited to notifications of task force events and cannot be used for other purposes.  To join the Lower Hudson mail list, subscribe here and choose “Lower.Hudson.Special.Ed.Task.Force” on the dropdown menu.  You will then receive an email request to confirm your subscription by following the link provided in the email.  It's as easy as that!  

You may also subscribe to any or all of the other regional special ed task force lists, but you will need to do so one at a time.

Upcoming Events

Lower Hudson Task Force Executive Council

Task Force Chair 

Deborah Goddard, Lower Hudson Valley FACE Center at Westchester Institute for Human Development

Council Members

Jessica Baumann
Westchester & Putnam Independent Living Centers

Julie Passman, Esq.
Attorney at Law

Stephanie Bellantoni
Special Education Resource Specialist
Westchester Institute for Human Development

Alyssa Galea, Esq.
Disability Rights New York

Stephanie Roebuck, Esq.
Keane & Beane, PC

Marion Walsh, Esq.
Littman Krooks, LLP

Mary Ellen Urinyi
Rockland BOCES