Self-Advocacy Training Grant
The statewide independent living needs assessment, forums, planning sessions,
and public hearings have identified many unmet independent living needs. This
grant award has been designated by DOR and SILC to fund new self-advocacy
training designed to empower people with significant disabilities to advocate,
within their own communities, for one or more of the following unmet needs:
Assistive Technology
Communications Access
Crime and Abuse against People with Disabilities
Deinstitutionalization
Disability Civil Rights
Education
Emergency Preparedness
Employment Healthcare
Housing
Implementation of Accessibility Regulations
Implementation of the Olmstead decision
Leadership Development
Multicultural Awareness
Physician-assisted Suicide
Public Education on all issues
Transition
Transportation
Voting access and get-out-the-vote
