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Our Directory of all Sites, Resources, Links, Disability-Related, or Cauese-Related sites of Organizations, Community groups, Newsgroups, Governmental agencies, Political affiliations, Businesses and News media outlets. Were you might be looking to acquire more knowledge, information, news and resources regarding disability related issues? Or, you might want to make a difference? Being more caring, helpful and supportive towards other humans, animals, other living things, the planet, and the environment? Might even do some online activisms and taking actions? – Or maybe, just some plain-old moaning and groaning? It might even be sharing, meeting, seeking, asking or a little chatting? – It’s all here..... hopefully? Remember! There are always ‘People-to-See’, ‘Places-to-Go’ and ‘Things-to-Do’ on the wonderful wide world web and internet Activism. Get Connected - 'NETROOT' is a new world of internet activisms, advocacy, and social networking. Sincerely, Edward Janus | Disability Advocate and Activist
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National Disability Rights Network (NDRN) is the nonprofit membership organization for the federally mandated Protection and Advocacy (P&A) Systems and Client Assistance Programs (CAP) for individuals with disabilities. Collectively, the P&A/CAP network is the largest provider of legally based advocacy services to people with disabilities in the United States. Through training and technical assistance, legal support, and legislative advocacy, the National Disability Rights Network works to create a society in which people with disabilities are afforded equality of opportunity and are able to fully participate by exercising choice and self-determination. The National Disability Rights Network serves a wide range of individuals with disabilities – including, but not limited to, those with cognitive, mental, sensory, and physical disabilities – by guarding against abuse; advocating for basic rights; and ensuring accountability in health care, education, employment, housing, transportation, and within the juvenile and criminal justice systems. |
| National Association of the Deaf (NDA) The NAD is the nation's premier civil rights organization of, by and for deaf and hard of hearing individuals in the United States of America. |
Dreams for Kids Dreams for Kids! Dreams for Kids empowers youth living in poverty and those with disabilities, by uniting them with their peers, recognizing their abilities, and allowing their voices to be heard. The most isolated young people from every community are reminded they have something to give. While fearlessly pursing their dreams, they are leading others to their own and compassionately changing the world. |
Disabled American Veterans The official site of Disabled American Veterans. The DAV is an organization of disabled veterans who are focused on building better lives for disabled veterans and their families. Through a wide network of state-level Departments and local Chapters, DAV extends its mission of hope to communities where disabled veterans and their families live. DAV services include help with disability compensation, VA pension, death benefits, VA medical care, Social Security disability benefits, veterans' job programs, and much, much more. Freedom is not free. |
Americans with Disabilities Act The ADA Home Page provides access to Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) regulations for businesses and State and local governments, technical assistance materials, ADA Standards for Accessible Design, links to Federal agencies with ADA responsibilities and information, updates on new ADA requirements, streaming video, information about Department of Justice ADA settlement agreements, consent decrees, and enforcement activities and access to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) ADA material. |
ADA Watch and the National Coalition for Disability Rights Advancing the Civil Rights of People with Disabilities. ADA Watch is a project of the National Coalition for Disability Rights (NCDR), a nonprofit alliance of hundreds of disability, civil rights, and social justice organizations united to defend and strengthen disability rights. |
ADAPT - Free Our People 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. There's no place like home; and we mean real homes, not nursing homes. 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.
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Advocating Change Together ACT is a grassroots disability rights organization run by and for people with developmental and other disabilities. ACT's mission is to help people across disabilities to see themselves as part of a larger disability rights movement and make connections to other civil and human rights struggles. Raising the visibility of people with disabilities. |
Abilicorp.com Abilicorp is a Disability-Focused Employment Company. Abilicorp provides competitive employment and career opportunities to people with disabilities. |
Amputee News News about amputees, for amputees and by amputees. Updated several times a week. |
Center for Disability Rights CDR is a community-based advocacy and service organization, as well as an independent living center, for people with all types of disabilities, helping individuals to live independently outside of nursing homes and in their own homes. |
Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology (COAT) COAT, a coalition of over 300 national, regional, state, and community-based disability organizations. We advocate for legislative and regulatory safeguards that will ensure full access by people with disabilities to evolving high speed broadband, wireless and other Internet Protocol (IP) technologies. |
HealthCare.gov Welcome to HealthCare.gov Your Health Care Explained. Take health care into your own hands. Explore your coverage options, Information for you on Families with Children, Individuals, People with Disabilities, Seniors, Young Adults and Employers. Find out which private insurance plans, public programs, and community services are available to you in your state. |
RatifyNow.org
Was founded by lifelong disability rights advocates who worked with other advocates at the United Nations to produce the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Our advance the membership is comprised of individuals and organizations that are passionate about using the CRPD to protect and rights of people with disabilities worldwide. |
DisaboomLive As the premiere online resource for the disability community, Disaboom gives you the tools and the opportunity to - share your stories, learn from others, and create a supportive network of friends. Whether you're a person with a disability, a caregiver, a concerned spouse or a friend, this is the place to connect – so get started now, we're waiting to hear from you! |
Disabled Online An online portal that provides web directories, forums, chat rooms, shopping and classifieds for people with disabilities. |
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund A national disability rights law and policy center that advances the civil and human rights of people with disabilities through legal advocacy, training, education, and public policy and legislative development. |
Interfaith Disability Network (IDN) Interfaith Disability Network educates and engages faith communities in cultivating mutually beneficial relationships with people with disabilities. |
Organizing for America - Disabled Americans for Barack Obama Americans with disabilities (and their friends and family) who support our President Barack Obama. A Disability Community at Organizing for America website. |
NJN Network NJN Stands for, Not just the news - computers, music, politics disability, and advocacy. Nothing about us without us. |
U.S. Department of Labor - Office of Disability Employment Policy The Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) provides national leadership on disability employment policy by developing and influencing the use of evidence-based disability employment policies and practices, building collaborative partnerships, and delivering authoritative and credible data on employment of people with disabilities. A World In Which People With Disabilities Have Unlimited Employment Opportunities. |
United Nations Enable - Promoting the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
The United Nations Program on Disabilities works to assist in the promotion of effective measures for prevention of disability, rehabilitation, and the realization of the goals of full participation of disabled persons in social life and development, and of equality. |
American Association of People with Disabilities
AAPD is a non-profit cross-disability organization whose goals are: unity, leadership, and impact, which are the hopes and convictions of people with disabilities and are necessary to ensure the future of inclusion promised by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). |
United States International Council on Disabilities (USICD) Federation of US-based non-governmental organizations, federal agencies and individuals committed to advocacy and action on behalf of the global disability rights agenda. Because of its unique structure, USICD’s core strength is its membership. |
World Association of Persons with Disabilities The Beacon of Knowledge and Refuge for the World's Largest Minority, Useful links to laws, technology, advocacy, health and other resources on the Internet for parents, professionals, researchers and persons with disabilities. |
RADAR - The Disability Network
RADAR is the UK's largest disability campaigning network, with over 900 individual and organisational members. Our vision is a just and equal society whose strength is human difference. Our mission is to enable individuals, networks and policy-makers to do things differently. |
Health and Disability Advocates
(HDA) is a national organization, based in Chicago, Illinois, that uses multiple strategies to promote income security and improve healthcare access and services for children, people with disabilities and low-income and older adults. |
Inclusion International
Is a global federation of family-based organizations advocating for the human rights of people with intellectual disabilities and their families worldwide to be heard for over 40 years. |
National Association of the Deaf (NAD) NAD is the nation's premier civil rights organization of, by and for deaf and hard of hearing individuals in the United States of America. Established in 1880, the NAD was shaped by deaf leaders who believed in the right of the American deaf community to use sign language, to congregate on issues important to them, and to have its interests represented at the national level. These beliefs remain true to this day, with American Sign Language as a core value. |
National Resource Directory An Online Partnership for Wounded, Ill and Injured Service Members, Veterans, Their Families and Those Who Support Them. |
Paralyzed Veterans of America
Addresses a wide array of issues experienced by veterans and other people with spinal cord injury or dysfunction. Subjects include legal, medical, sports accessibility, research and more. |
Dare To Dream Network A support network participating in health care, senior citizen, veteran, injured worker, and political issues by providing a forum for visitors to find information through a variety of resources. |
Get Help Now | RAINN | Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network Anti-sexual assault organization working with local rape crisis centers across the U.S. Also has a web-based crisis hotline providing live and anonymous support. Carries out ... |
Ready.gov Prepare. Plan. Stay Informed. The Ready Campaign of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, educating and empowering Americans to prepare for emergencies including natural disasters and potential terrorist attacks. |
Amnesty International USA - Action for Human Rights Official Website of Amnesty International in the United States. Protect Human Rights worldwide. Stop Torture, Defend Women's Rights, Abolish Death Penalty and defend the rights of individuals everywhere. What Can Do? Take Action Online. |
Better World Campaign (BWC) Works to build a stronger relationship between the United States and the United Nations through outreach, communications, and advocacy. We encourage U.S. leadership to strengthen the UN’s ability to carry out its invaluable operations around the world. And we engage policy makers, the media, and the American public to increase awareness of and support for the United Nations. |
Care2 The global network for organizations and people who Care2 make a difference. Free services that help save wildlife, is the World's largest community of people who care about the Environment. You can help Make a Difference too! |
Green Education Network GEN is the World’s Most INSPIRING Aggregation of FREE Information, Lesson Plans, Activities, Resources, Projects, Awards! |
Humane Society of the United States - Take Action The Humane Society of the United States is the nation's largest and most effective animal protection organization. Animal Care Community. The HSUS provides resources for local humane societies and operates a network of direct care centers for animals around the country. |
Natural Resources Defense Council - The Earth's Best Defense NRDC: The Natural Resources Defense Council works to protect wildlife and wild places and to ensure a healthy environment for all life on earth. |
ONE.org ONE is Americans of all beliefs and every walk of life - united as ONE - to help make poverty history. We are a campaign of over 2.4 million people and growing from all 50 states and over 100 of America's most well-known and respected non-profit, advocacy and humanitarian organizations. As ONE, we are raising public awareness about the issues of global poverty, hunger, disease and efforts to fight such problems in the world's poorest countries. As ONE, we are asking our leaders to do more to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty. ONE believes that allocating more of the U.S. budget toward providing basic needs like health, education, clean water and food would transform the futures and hopes of an entire generation in the world's poorest countries. |
PickensPlan.com We Are in a Crisis. Our dependence on foreign oil forms the intersection of the three most critical issues America currently faces: the economy, the environment and our national security. |
Sustainability Education Network SEN is dedicated to the urgent need to empower mankind to avert the catastrophic exhaustion of resources inevitable in the lifetime of our children if we fail to change course. |
Sierra Club - Take Actions Since 1892, the Sierra Club has been working to protect communities, wild places, and the planet itself. We are the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization in the United States. And our founder, John Muir, appears on the back of the California quarter. |
UnderstandingPrejudice.org This web site is for students, teachers, and others interested in the causes and consequences of prejudice. In these pages you will find more than 2,000 links to prejudice-related resources, as well as searchable databases with hundreds of prejudice researchers and social justice organizations. You well also find a variety of interactive exercises offering unique perspectives on prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. |
We Can Solve It The We Campaign is a project of The Alliance for Climate Protection, a nonprofit, nonpartisan effort founded by Nobel laureate and former Vice President Al Gore. Our ultimate aim is to halt global warming. Specifically we are educating people in the US and around the world that the climate crisis is both urgent and solvable. |