Community Integration

A Life in the Community

Progress has been made around the country to ensure that individuals with disabilities who want to live, work and play in the community can do so. But there are many who still think that large institutional settings are the “safest” place for people with disabilities. We believe that segregating people with disabilities, in order for them to receive services, is wrong and dangerous.

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Olmstead in Action

The report Keeping the Promise: True Community Integration and the Need for Monitoring and Advocacy summarizes two projects that monitored people with disabilities, many of whom were moving out of large institutions into homes in the community.

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  • Community Integration

    NDRN Joins Amicus Challenging Homeland Security Public Charge Rule as Violating the Rehabilitation Act

    September 11, 2019

    NDRN joined sixteen other national civil and disability rights groups and in some states, the P&A, in filing amicus curiae briefs in WA, NY, CA, IL and MD in support of challenges to the DHS’s new Public Charge Regulation.

    Amicus Brief
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    NDRN Joins Amicus in Community Integration Case

    July 5, 2019

    NDRN and eight other national and local disability and civil rights groups filed an amicus brief supporting plaintiffs on the claim that the City must provide comprehensive transition services to facilitate moving people from institutions into community-based independent living arrangements.

    Amicus Brief
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    NDRN Joins Amicus in Housing Case

    July 24, 2018

    NDRN joined nine California disability rights organizations, medical and clinical professionals in an amicus letter urging the California Supreme Court to grant review of the California Court of Appeals decision in Reilly v. Marin Housing Authority.

    Amicus Brief