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Justice For All E-Mail Network
Formed to defend and advance disability rights and programs in the 104th Congress. One JFA goal is to work with national and state organizations of people with disabilities to get the word from Washington D.C. out to the grassroots.
http://www.jfanow.org/
Sprint Project Connect
A wireless phone donation and recycling program, to raise money and support for people with disabilities.
http://www.sprint.com/community/communitie...
Center For Education Advocacy
Special education advocate in Miami, Florida with emphasis on individualized services.
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/s/community.dl...
The Blind Children's Fund
Resources to aid in the care and education of blind children.
http://www.blindchildrensfund.org/
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund Inc.
A national law and policy center dedicated to protecting and advancing the civil rights of people with disabilities through legislation, litigation, advocacy, technical assistance, and education and training of attorneys, advocates, persons with disabilities, and parents of children with disabilities.
http://www.dredf.org
Bear's Society
About a self advocate who is currently People First President in Ridgecrest, California, making a difference.
http://members.tripod.com/todd.clark/
Council for Disability Rights
On national, state, and local levels, the Council for Disability Rights advances the rights of people with disabilities. The Council promotes public policy and legislation, public awareness through education, and provides information and referral services.
http://www.disabilityrights.org/
Advocacy Incorporated
The mission of Advocacy, Inc. is to advocate for, protect, and advance the legal, human, and service rights of Texans with disabilities. Based in Austin, Texas.
http://www.advocacyinc.org/
Freedom Clearinghouse
Materials to change the system to home and community based services -- our homes, not nursing homes.
http://freedomclearinghouse.org/
Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI)
U.S. organization that advocates for personal choice, self-determination, and social and economic justice for people with disabilities.
http://www.childrenshospital.org/ici/
Self Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE)
To ensure that people with disabilities are treated as equals and that they are given the same decisions, choices, rights, responsibilities, and chances to speak up to empower themselves; opportunities to make new friends; and to learn from their mistakes.
http://www.sabeusa.org/
Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (TASH)
TASH is an international association of people with disabilities, their family members, other advocates, and professionals fighting for a society in which inclusion of all people in all aspects of society is the norm.
http://www.tash.org/
Disability - on the agenda
Information of the New Deal for the Disabled initiative and disability rights. There is also a section on the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative which provides detailed guidelines for web authors on making their pages accessible to all.
http://www.disability.gov.uk/
NICHCY
National information center that provides information on disabilities and disability related issues. Children and youth, birth to age 22, are the focus.
http://www.nichcy.org/
Axis Disability Rights
Articles, videos, recommended readings on disability rights, euthanasia, abuse, injustice and other related topics.
http://www.normemma.com/
Center For People With Disabilities, Inc. - a 501-c-3 not-for-profit
The Center For People With Disabilities, Inc. website (dba: Center For People With Disabilities)is an Education and Resource website focusing on the areas addressed by the Center, which is a 501-c-3 not-for-profit organization incorporated in Texas, USA.
http://home.earthlink.net/~mmjournal/cfpwd...
Disability Advocacy
Articles and links to help people with disabilities advocate for themselves.
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/disabi...
LRM'S Place: Disability, Health Care, Advocacy...and More
Personal web site of public policy analyst Laura Remson Mitchell. Primary focus is on health-care reform and disability policy. Includes original articles and commentary as well as advocacy links.
http://www.geocities.com/dhcpolwnk/
American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT)
We are fighting so people with disabilities can live in the community with real supports instead of being locked away in nursing homes and other institutions.
http://www.adapt.org/
Mental Disability Rights International
General information, standards, publications and witness website dedicated to advocacy for the rights of children and adults with mental disabilities.
http://www.mdri.org/
Washington Speech and Hearing Association
Advocates for the communicatively impaired, speech-language pathologists and audiologists.
http://www.wslha.org/
Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities
A coalition of approximately 100 national disability organizations working together to advocate for national public policy that ensures the self-determination, independence, empowerment, integration and inclusion of children and adults with disabilities in all aspects of society.
http://www.c-c-d.org/
Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA)
An independent, nonprofit, tax-exempt organization of attorneys, advocates and parents established to improve the quality and quantity of legal assistance for parents of children with disabilities.
http://www.copaa.org/
Auto Workers Press
This site is created to specialize in disabled auto workers rights and to be an advocate for auto workers who are being discriminated against, on the basis of disability, by their employers.
http://www.angelfire.com/oh3/theautoworker...
Associated Advocacy Center-Visions For The Future, Inc.
We are a nonprofit organization offering educational advocacy, consultation, training, and advocate referrals to parents of children with special needs ages 3-22.
http://aacvisions.org
Dana Lear, Ph.D.
Berkeley special education advocate.
http://www.negotiatingthemaze.org
Not Dead Yet
Disability activists opposed to the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia.
http://www.notdeadyet.org/
Disabled Peoples' International
A grassroots,cross-disability network with member organizations in over 110 countries, over half of which are in the developing world.
http://www.dpi.org/
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
The Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law is a nonprofit legal advocacy organization based in Washington D.C. Our name honors the federal appeals court judge whose landmark decisions pioneered the field of mental health law, and our advocacy is based on the principle that every individual is entitled to choice and dignity.
http://www.bazelon.org/
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