Resources

  • Community Integration

    Disability Rights Florida Monitors Facility Housing Unaccompanied Migrant Children

    July 11, 2019

    In a new video, Disability Rights Florida attorney Peter Sleasman describes what led these children to end up in U.S. custody and what he observed during the P&A’s monitoring of the Homestead facility.

    General
  • Community Integration

    When Nicholas’ Services were Cut, Disability Rights Ohio Helped Get them Restored

    July 8, 2019

    Nicholas was excited when he received an Individual Options (IO) waiver so he could live in his community with his brother and sister-in-law.But then he and his family had difficulties finding service providers that could give him the 24/7 care he needed. When his county's Board of Developmental Disabilities…

    General
  • Community Integration

    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
  • Census

    States Ranked by Percent of People with Disabilities Living in Hard-to-Count Census Tracts

    July 2, 2019

    These figures of states ranked by percent of people with disabilities living in HTC census tracts was produced by NDRN and Georgetown Law’s Center on Poverty and Inequality using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year Estimates (2013-2017).

    Fact Sheet
  • Hate Incidents

    Congress Must Improve Hate Crime Data Reporting

    June 27, 2019

    WASHINGTON, DC – NDRN supports the Khalid Jabara and Heather Heyer National Opposition to Hate, Assault, and Threats to Equality Act of 2019 and its House companion introduced in Congress today.

    Press Release