…years is now over 1600 names, and it takes more than an hour and a half to read.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvCrYFpb6HU Day of Mourning 2022 Remarks by Executive Director Julia Bascom We…
…Your Right: A Know-Your-Rights Guide for Voters with Mental Disabilities and Advocates,” explains laws that can affect voters with disabilities, including voter-competence requirements, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and state…
…issues facing the disability community, including our right to equal COVID-19 Treatment. We released comments demanding that when a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available, people with disabilities have equitable access to…
…ability to make choices about their lives. Sharisa is the former president of Autcom, representative to the Colorado Developmental Disabilities Council, manager of Voices and Choices of Autism, and active…
…community. Some of our community members are facing dangerous losses to their home- and community-based services. These are vital programs that support people with disabilities to participate in society, and…
…Senate’s COVID relief package includes emergency funding for Medicaid home- and community-based services. Home and community-based services funded by Medicaid allow people with disabilities like [me/ my family member/ my…
…such models having been used with other marginalized communities for decades. At that time, even getting outsiders to believe there was an Autistic community at all was near-impossible. We were…
…but we also need all self-advocates and allies to submit your own public comments! The JRC’s supporters will undoubtedly be submitting comments of their own; it is crucial that the…
…from under me, which it does often, I can fall so far under the ground that things are very different. The world can disappear. Even the most basic sensory modes…
…than something that deserves an award. We need to make it part of our basic humanity, essentially. When it comes to our work, when it comes to our advocacy, now,…
