Activism, Advocacy, Disability Rights
- Access Now
- While nominally a Florida organization, this group does nationwide legal public accommodations advocacy and has a national membership.
- The ADA Game
- An online game "which simulates how advocacy can promote positive changes. As advocates for disability rights, players work together in one of ten virtual communities to improve awareness and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)"
- ADAPT
- American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today, a national direct-action group that works for legislation to get people out of nursing homes with personal attendants
- The Advocacy Center
- Education advocacy information for people with developmental disabilities or head injuries, and their families, sponsored by the Western NY Protection and Advocacy for people with Developmental Disabilities program
- Advocating for Your Child
- How-to help on advocating for special education services, from Wrightslaw
- American Association of People with Disabilities
- A national cross-disability group that does advocacy and lobbying and provides benefits to members
- Barrier Breakers
- Primarily oriented toward promoting the use of PASS plans and selling PASS-plan-related services, this site also features good advocacy alerts and a Social Security issues chatroom where people can trade advice on dealing with SSA.
- Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
- "Legal advocacy for the civil rights and human dignity of people with mental disability"
- California Disability Alliance
- An advocacy organization opposed to euthanasia and assisted suicide
- Center for Disability Issues and the Health Professions
- Their mission is to improve the responsiveness of health professionals and health providers to disability issues, to increase the number of people with disabilities working in health care professions, and to assist people with disabilities to become better advocates for their own health care; famed long-time disability advocate June Isaacson Kailes is centrally involved.
- Center for the Study and Advancement of Disability Policy
- Training and information dissemination on disability policy issues and advocacy.
- The Center on Human Policy
- A Syracuse University program that is involved in policy, research, and advocacy for the rights of people with disabilities
- Disability Cool
- Disability culture topics
- Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
- Legal advocacy, public policy, training, and technical assistance
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- Information on how to file a disability employment discrimination claim
- Family Voices
- Advocacy and information regarding community-based services for children and youths with disabilities
- Freedom Clearinghouse
- A joint effort of The Ragged Edge and Mouth magazines, this site offers information and resources for advocates working on deinstitutionalization
- Institute on Independent Living
- International site featuring discussion forums, links to disability issues coalitions, and information/documents on disability rights issues
- Kids As Self Advocates
- Advocacy organization of teens and young adults
- LawHelp.org/NY
- While not disability-specific, this site, which provides connections to free or low-cost legal assistance to people with low or moderate incomes in New York State, is certainly applicable to many disability-related situations
- Long Term Care Community Coalition
- Information and advocacy on policies and legislation concerning long-term care for people with disabilities and seniors
- Mothers From Hell
- A funky, tough, and funny organization of parent advocates; the site features humor, products, the option to become a member and receive the organization's newsletter, Brimstone, and more.
- Mouth Magazine
- Simply the funniest, most radical, strangest, and best Disability Rights publication in the known universe
- National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy
- Mental health advocacy
- National Coalition on Self Determination
- A group of people with developmental disabilities and their families who work to promote the principles of the Self Determination movement through national disability policy advocacy.
- National Disability Rights Network
- The 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.
- New York Assistive Technology Advocacy Project
- Information on a variety of assistive technology advocacy and payment issues
- The New York State Commission on Quality of Care and Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities (CQCAPD)
- New York State Self Advocacy Association
- Consumer rights organization for people with mental retardation or developmental disabilities
- NYC Managed Care Consumer Assistance Program
- A starting point for information and advocacy assistance regarding managed care
- Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center
- Don't be fooled by the name; this site has news and information of national interest
- The PACER Center
- The Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights, a Minnesota-based organization that has lots of information for families and students on education for children with disabilities
- Patient Advocate Foundation
- Information on, and assistance with, mediation between health care consumers and insurance companies, employers, and creditors
- Smithsonian Disability Rights Movement Exhibit
- The Smithsonian Institution's exhibit on the history of the disability rights movement, an excellent multimedia site
- There's No Place Like Home
- A statewide grassroots coalition headquartered in Syracuse, NY, that advocates for home and community based supports for people with disabilities and elderly people
- United Spinal Association
- Formerly known as the Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association, United Spinal addresses many generic disability issues through cutting edge legal and legislative advocacy
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Contact Information
- Address
- STIC
- 135 East Frederick St.
- Binghamton, New York 13904
- Direction to STIC
- Phone & Fax Numbers
- (607) 724-2111 (Voice/TTY)
- (607) 772-3600 (Fax)
- (607) 238-2694 (VP)
- Hours
- Monday - Friday
- 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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