Advocacy & Public Policy

• Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
  Nation's leading legal advocate for people with mental disabilities.
• Bill Text
  This website allows users to search text of bills and resolutions presented to Congress (currently or from the past).
• Council for Disability Rights
  Advancing rights and enhancing lives of people with disabilities
• Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)
  The largest international professional organization dedicated to improving educational outcomes for individuals with exceptionalities, students with disabilities, and/or the gifted.
• Council on Quality and Leadership in Supports for People with Disabilities
  The Council conducts its quality enhancement work both directly and through collaborative agreements and partnerships with other organizations, systems and coalitions, both public and private.
• Disability Advocacy Work With Networking (DAWWN)
• DAWN
  Disability Advocates: Wisconsin Network
• Disabilities Rights Advocacy Group, Inc. (DRAG) -- Pennsylvania
  A major lobbying force for curb cuts along City sidewalks, making Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) accessible. Continually encouraging and monitoring the private sector to upgrade their building facilities and make them accessible and more user friendly to the disabled.
• Families USA Foundation
  Organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans.
• Family Voices
  A national grassroots network of families and friends speaking on behalf of children with special health care needs.
• International Network on Disability Creation Process
  INDCP is an organism that has the objective to develop and disseminate knowledge centered on social change and optimum social participation of people with disabilities.
• Multicultural Disability Advocacy Association (MDAA) - Australia
  
• National Council on Disability (NCD)
  An independent federal agency making recommendations to the President and Congress to enhance the quality of life for all Americans with disabilities and their families.
• National Rehabilitation Association
  A member organization whose mission is to promote ethical and excellent practice in rehabilitation.
• Not Dead Yet
  Disability activists opposed to the legalization of assisted suicide.
  
• Pacer Center: Legislative Information
  Funded with private money, stays on top off legislative and policy information of interest to families of children with disabilities.
• Project Action
  An Easter Seals project to improve access to public transportation for people with disabilities.
• Project Vote Smart: Candidates and Elected Officials
  This website allows users to view the following information on various politicians: Biographies; Campaign Finances; Issue Positions; Performance Evaluations; Voting Records.
• Wrightslaw / Special Ed Advocate
  Has information about special education law, education law, and advocacy for children with disabilities. Wrightslaw has thousands of articles, cases, and free resources about dozens of topics.