Advocacy

• ADA Watch - www.adawatch.org
  Advancing the Civil Rights of People with Disabilities
  
  
• National Disability Rights Network - www.ndrn.org
  Protection and advocacy for individuals with disabilities
  
  
• American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) - www.aapd.com
  AAPD works in coalition with other disability organizations for the full implementation and enforcement of disability nondiscrimination laws, particularly the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
  
  
• American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT) - www.adapt.org
  Advocacy organization promoting community services instead of institution and nursing home warehousing of people with disabilities.
  PO Box 9598
  Denver, CO 80209
  (303) 333-6698
  E-mail: national@adapt.org
  
  
• The Arc - www.thearc.org
  Advocacy for children and adults with mental retardation and their families.
  500 East Border Street, Suite 300
  Arlington, Texas 76010
  (817)261-6003 Voice
  (817)277-0553 TTY
  E-mail: thearc@metronet.com
  
  
• Cornucopia of Disability Information (CODI) - codi.buffalo.edu
  A community resource for consumers and professionals providing disability information in a wide variety of areas.
  
  
• Disability History Project - www.disabilityhistory.org
  Preserving and examining the history and culture of the oppression and struggle towards freedom of people with disabilities.
  255 3rd Street, #202
  Oakland, CA 94607
  
  
• The Disability Rights Activist - www.disrights.org
  Updates on legislation and legal cases impacting people with disabilities.
  
  
• Family Village - www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/index.htmlx
  A global community of disability-related resources.
  Waisman Center,
  University of Wisconsin-Madison
  1500 Highland Avenue
  Madison, WI 53705-2280
  E-mail: familyvillage@waisman.wisc.edu
  
  
• Justice for All - www.aapd.com/JFA
  Disseminating information from Washington D.C. to the grassroots advocacy activity of people with disabilities.
  
  
• National Alliance of the Disabled - www.naotd.org/noatd.html
  
  
• National Council on Disability - www.ncd.gov
  
  
• National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities (NICHCY) - www.nichcy.org
  (800) 695-0285
  
  
• National Organization on Disability (NOD) - www.nod.org
  Promoting full and equal participation of America's 54 million men, women and children with disabilities in all aspects of life. 910 Sixteenth Street, N.W.
  Suite 600
  Washington, D.C. 20006
  (202) 293-5960 Voice
  (202) 293-5968 TTY
  
  
• Paralyzed Veterans of America - www.pva.org
  801 Eighteenth Street, NW
  Washington, D.C. 20006-3517
  
  
• TASH - www.tash.org
  International advocacy association of people with disabilities, their family members, other advocates and people who work in the disability field.
  29 W. Susquehanna Avenue
  Suite 210
  Baltimore, MD 21204
  (410) 828-8274
  Email: info@tash.org
  
  
• United Cerebral Palsy Association - www.ucpa.org