[otw_shortcode_content_toggle title=”American Civil Liberties Union – Disability Rights” opened=”closed”]https://www.aclu.org/issues/disability-rights
For nearly 100 years, the ACLU has been our nation’s guardian of liberty, working in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.
The ACLU strives for an America free of discrimination against people with disabilities, where people with disabilities are valued, integrated members of society who have full access to education, homes, health care, jobs, and families. We are also committed to ensuring people with disabilities are no longer segregated into, and overrepresented in, civil and criminal institutions such as nursing homes, psychiatric hospitals, jails, and prisons.
[/otw_shortcode_content_toggle] [otw_shortcode_content_toggle title=”ADAPT” opened=”closed”]ADAPT is a national grass-roots community that organizes disability rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action, including civil disobedience, to assure the civil and human rights of people with disabilities to live in freedom. We offer training, resources and organized advocacy.
[/otw_shortcode_content_toggle] [otw_shortcode_content_toggle title=”Disability, Abuse & Personal Rights Project” opened=”closed”]Using public awareness, education and training, policy development, law enforcement, and professional consulting, we address the physical, sexual, and emotional abuse of people with developmental or intellectual disabilities. Our Mission is to disseminate information on how to reduce the risk of abuse, to promote healing for victims, and to seek justice for those who have been victimized.
[/otw_shortcode_content_toggle] [otw_shortcode_content_toggle title=”Disability Rights Advocates – DRA” opened=”closed”]Disability Rights Advocates (DRA) is one of the leading nonprofit disability rights legal centers in the nation. Its mission is to advance equal rights and opportunity for people with all types of disabilities nationwide. DRA uses litigation, structured negotiations, advocacy, community education, and media to reform systems and practices that discriminate against people with disabilities. Our strong track record of success is reflective in more than 25 prestigious awards collectively won for our work
DRA represents people disabilities whose civil rights have been violated and organizations in complex, system-change class-action cases. From its offices in California and New York by partnerships with a broad network of local and national client organizations DRA represents people with the full spectrum of disabilities and DRA never charges its clients for representation.
[/otw_shortcode_content_toggle] [otw_shortcode_content_toggle title=”Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund – DREDF” opened=”closed”]The Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), founded in 1979, is a leading national civil rights law and policy center directed by individuals with disabilities and parents who have children with disabilities. DREDF is a non-profit, tax-exempt charitable organization under Section 501(c)(3).
DREDF is dedicated to improving the lives of people with disabilities through legal advocacy, training, education, and public policy and legislative development. Community support makes it possible for us to continue to protect and advance the civil and human rights of people with disabilities.
[/otw_shortcode_content_toggle] [otw_shortcode_content_toggle title=”Native American Disability Law Center” opened=”closed”]http://www.nativedisabilitylaw.org/
The Native American Disability Law Center is a private nonprofit organization that advocates for the legal rights of Native Americans with disabilities. Through advocacy and education, we empower Native people with disabilities to lead independent lives in their own communities.
The Law Center’s mission is to advocate so that the rights of Native Americans with disabilities in the Four Corners area are enforced, strengthened and brought in harmony with their communities. Our advocates work to ensure that Native Americans with disabilities have access to justice, are empowered as equal members of their communities and nations. We address civil rights, special education, health care, and rights to public and private services. Our staff investigates abuse and neglect in care facilities, and provides rights-based training for people with disabilities, their families, educators and service providers.
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