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• access KANSAS
  accessKANSAS a service of INFORMATION NETWORK OF KANSAS, INC.  This is The Official Web Site of the State of Kansas.
  www.accesskansas.org/
  
  
• Act2gether International
  Act2gether International is an advocacy group promoting community, education, and employment accessability for the disabled, transitionally disadvantaged, and economically challenged. Act2gether International promote advocacy through online educational personal empowerment workshops, support groups, individual services, and yearly awards promoting excellence.
  www.act2gether.org
  
  
• ADAPT
  This is the ADAPT (American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today) home page. 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.
  www.adapt.org/
  
  

• I'm Adapting to Disabilities
  A directory to individual state Disability services and programs as well as Advocacy & Protection assistance. It also features an art gallery focusing on creativity for people with disabilities.
  www.imadapting.com
  
  

• American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD)
  AAPD is a non-profit, non-partisan, cross-disability organization whose goals are unity, leadership and impact.
  www.aapd.com/

• American Council of the Blind
  This service provides general information about the Council including recent issues of our monthly publication, The Braille Forum.
  www.acb.org/
  
  
• ADA Watch
  ADA Watch is an informational online network designed to activate grassroots responses to threats to the ADA.  ADA Watch educates and informs people with disabilities, disability advocates, members of the general public, the business community, policy makers, and the media regarding threats to the civil rights of people with disabilities. ADA Watch also provide support to the ADA Watch coalition, a national network of organizations united to protect and strengthen the ADA. 
  www.adawatch.org/
  
  
• The Arc National Headquarters
  The Arc (formerly Association for Retarded Citizens of the United States) is the country's largest voluntary organization committed to the welfare of all children and adults with mental retardation and their families.
  www.thearc.org/

• Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
  Legal advocacy for the civil rights and human dignity of people with mental disabilities.
  www.bazelon.org/

• The Center for An Accessible Society
  The website of The Center for An Accessible Society, is where you'll find new ideas to replace old thinking, new stories to replace the same old ways of covering today's issues.  A national organization the Center for An Accessible Society is a project of Exploding Myths, Inc. a media enterprise company. The Center for An Accessible Society is a communications clearinghouse providing journalists credible information and quotable sources on national disability policy and independent living issues.
  www.accessiblesociety.org/
  
  
• Concrete Change
  Concrete Change refers to basic access in all new homes -- so that they are "visitable" by people with mobility problems. Concrete Change is an international effort to make all homes Visitable! To change that reality, three essentials can become routine: one ZERO-STEP entrance, all main floor interior doors--including bathrooms-- with 32 inches of clear passage space, and at least a half bath, preferably a full bath, on the main floor. Constructing homes with these features is inexpensive and easy. But advocates are needed to initiate and sustain the work required to change the status quo.
  www.concretechange.org/
  
  
• Disability Advocacy Work With Networking
  A source of names relating to the disability community. Local through national levels of reference. Legal and legislative organizations, local support groups, vendors and more.
  home.earthlink.net/~dawwn/
  
  

• disABILITY.gov (Access America)
  disABILITY.gov (Access America): Bringing Information on U.S. Federal Programs, Services, and Resources to Americans with Disabilities and Their Families.
  disabilities.gov/
  
  

• The Disability Rights Activist
  The Disability Rights Activist WWW site brings together information for persons interested in the rights of persons with disabilities. Information available includes: essential information needed for communicating with government officials and the media; current action alerts with summaries as well as detailed information about issues that you can use to support your rights; links to publications and organizations concerned with the rights of persons with disabilities; and voter information. This site is authored by Adrienne Rubin Barhydt who has been working in the field of disability rights for many years.
  www.disrights.org/
  
  
• Disability Rights Center of Kansas (DRC)
  Kansas Advocacy & Protective Services has a new name effective January 1, 2005: the Disability Rights Center of Kansas (DRC). The Disability Rights Center has a new web site and new email addresses, but the old ones will redirect and forward users to the new ones. The new web site is www.drckansas.org. The email prefixes will remain the same and the domain name will change (example: info@ksadv.org, the old email address, now becomes info@drckansas.org).
  www.drckansas.org
  
  

• Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Inc. (DREDF)
  Founded in 1979 by people with disabilities and parents of children with disabilities, the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Inc. (DREDF) is a national law and policy center dedicated to protecting and advancing the civil rights of people with disabilities through legislation, litigation, advocacy, technical assistance, and education and training of attorneys, advocates, persons with disabilities, and parents of children with disabilities.
  www.dredf.org/
  
  

• DND Press
  DND Press is a publisher of books for the disabled, by the disabled. While the mainstream publishing community focuses on the needs of the “able bodied”, DND Press has set its sights higher. With a large percentage of the population disabled to one degree or another, DND Press is determined to provide information and resources tailored to their needs. The DND Press is the home of the Disability Resource Library. The Disability Resource Library is a comprehensive collection of disability  related documents including the complete texts of major disability laws, regulations, government reports, guides, and more. DND Press recently added the Disability Rights Calendar to its site. You can list your disability rights/advocacy events (at no cost) and learn about upcoming events around the nation.
  www.dndpress.com/
  www.dndpress.com/calendar.htm
  
  

• Family & Advocates Partnership for Education (FAPE)
  The FAPE is a new project which aims to inform and educate families and advocates about the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1997 and promising practices.
  www.fape.org/
  
  
• Family Voices
  Family Voices speaking on behalf of children and youth with special health care needs. Family Voices partnering with professionals and families to advocate for health care services that are family-centered, community-based, comprehensive, coordinated and culturally competent.
  www.familyvoices.org
  
  
• Health Care Access Resolution
  Join the growing movement to build support  for access to quality health care for all!
  www.uhcan.org/HCAR/
  
  
• Justice for All
  Justice For All and the JFA E-mail Network were formed to defend and advance disability rights and programs in the 104th Congress.
  www.jfanow.org
  
  
• June Isaacson Kailes Advocacy Sites
  Links to 16 Disability Rights Advocacy sites.
  www.jik.com/advlinks.html
  
  

• Kansas Association of Centers for Independent Living (KACIL)
  KACIL's mission is to advocate for the independent living needs of disabled citizens of the state of Kansas, and to develop new resources and identify and provide access to existing resources which provide the services needed by disabled Kansans so that they may live independently in the situation and community of their choice.
  www.kacil.org/
  
  

• Kansas Big Tent Coalition
  Kansas Big Tent Coalition members come together as a unified voice for the purposes of supporting the following initiatives: To raise sufficient revenue for the purpose of decreasing the impact of budget cuts and ensure access to the state’s human services to allow choice, dignity and self determination for those Kansans most in need; To restore and protect essential services for Kansas’ most vulnerable citizens; and To ensure continued participation by service providers in fiscal years 2003 and 2004; and To further use this revenue to secure independent living for all Kansas citizens.
  www.bigtentcoalition.org/
  
  

• Kansas Commission on Disability Concerns (KCDC)
  This site formally the ADA Information Center On-Line is presented by the KCDC. KCDC is starting the new millennium with a new goal. The Commissioners want Kansas to be the number one state in the nation for employment of people with disabilities and every high school graduate with a disability to have a job or be enrolled in vocational training or higher education upon graduating. This new direction will lead us away from the a strictly civil rights and legislative information and referral system to one of research into current employment and training programs and assistance to programs and businesses to make it easier for people with disabilities to participate and become employed.
  adabbs.hr.state.ks.us/dc

• Kansas Council on Developmental Disabilities (KCDD)
  KCDD Resource Library, Newsletters, Press Releases, Kansas Legislative Database (has summaries of bills that the Disability Coalition deems important to persons with disabilities), and Kansas Legislative Listserve (a subscriber service that will automatically send out legislative changes and late-breaking news to its subscribers). See Information Network of Kansas (INK) for full text of bills.
  www.nekesc.org/kcdd.html

• The Medicaid Clearinghouse
  This site will educate, inform and activate those who have an interest in making the Medicaid program as effective as possible and protecting its critical benefits for the people who count on it.
  www.familiesusa.org/medicaid
  
  
• National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems (NAPAS)
  NAPAS is an association which represents federally mandated programs that protect the rights of persons with disabilities.
  http://www.napas.org/
  
  
• National Council on the Aging (NCOA)
  NCOA is the world's leading organization representing agencies and individuals committed to the well-being of our increasing older population.
  www.ncoa.org
  
  

• National Disabled Students Union (NDSU)
  The National Disabled Students Union (NDSU) is a national, cross-disability, student organization dedicated to social justice for all. The NDSU mission is to mobilize and organize students with disabilities throughout the nation in order to continue the legacy of empowerment and community solidarity that is our heritage.
  www.disabledstudents.org
  
  

• National Federation of the Blind (NFB)
  The ultimate purpose of the National Federation of the Blind is the complete integration of the blind into society on a basis of equality.
  www.nfb.org/

• National Parent Network on Disabilities (NPND)
  NPND is a non-profit organization that advocates to improve the lives of children, youth and adults with disabilities.
  www.npnd.org

• Not Dead Yet
  Americans with Disabilities don't want your pity or your lethal mercy. We want freedom. We want LIFE.
  http://acils.com/notdeadyet

• Oklahoma Developmental Disabilities Partnership Network
  Known as the Redlands Partners, the University Affiliated Program of Oklahoma (UAP), the Oklahoma Developmental Disabilities Council (ODDC) and the Oklahoma Disability Law Center, Inc. (ODLC) are considered sibling agencies because they are related under one law.
  www.flash.net/~odlc2/

• Oklahoma Disability Law Center, Inc. (ODLC)
  ODLC is the Protection and Advocacy System of Oklahoma. The Mission of the Oklahoma Disability Law Center, Inc. is to Protect, Promote and Expand the Rights of People with Disabilities and Mental Illness.
  www.flash.net/~odlcokc/
  

• Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Aging with Mental Retardation (RRTCAMR)
  The RRTCAMR is a national resource for researchers, planners, providers, self-advocates, families and students in the field of aging and mental retardation.
  www.uic.edu/orgs/rrtcamr/index.html
  
  
• S.A.B.E. (Self Advocates Becoming Empowered)
  The Mission of S.A.B.E. is to ensure that people with disabilities are treated as equals and that they are given the same decisions, choices, rights, responsibilities, and chances to speak up to empower themselves; opportunities to make new friends; and to learn from their mistakes.
  www.sabeusa.org
  
  
• SACK (Self Advocate Coalition of Kansas)
  SACK is the statewide self-advocate group. SACK is made up of over 20 member local self-advocate groups from all over Kansas.
  www.grapevine.net/~thearcdc/SACK/
  
  
• Self-Advocate Leadership Network
  The Self-Advocate Leadership Network, established in 1998, is a collaboration between self-advocate from across the country and the Human Services Research Institute (HSRI). We offer training directly to self-advocates and others - including family members, direct support staff and board members.
  www.hsri.org/leaders
  
  
• Self Help for Hard of Hearing People, Inc. (SHHH)
  SHHH and our members are catalysts that make mainstream society more accessible to people who are hard of hearing. We strive to improve the quality of hard of hearing people's lives though education, advocacy and self help.
  www.shhh.org
  
  
• Statewide Independent Living Council of Kansas (SILCK)
  State Plan for independent living demands consumer empowerment, control, equal access, and integration. The plan shall insure that there are civil rights in place for total integration. The mission of the SILCK is to: Develop a State Plan through external input, which ensures independent living for Kansans; Advocate for the accomplishment of the State Plan objectives; Monitor, review, and evaluate the implementation of the plan; Be a statewide catalyst for independent living.
  www.silck.org/
  
  
• TASH
  TASH is an international association of people with disabilities, their family members, other advocates, and professionals fighting for a society in which inclusion of all people in all aspects of society is the norm.
  www.tash.org

• Thomas Legislative Information on the Internet
  Thomas currently offers the following databases: Congress This Week, Floor Activities, Bills, Laws, Congressional Record, Committee Information, Historical Documents, The Legislative Process, U.S. Government Internet Resources.
  thomas.loc.gov/

• UCPA - United Cerebral Palsy Associations
  Advancing the independence of people with disabilities
  www.ucpa.org
  
  
• Universal Health Care Action Network (UHCAN)
  UHCAN was formed in 1992 to bring together diverse groups and activists working for comprehensive health care for all in state and national campaigns across the country. Today, UHCAN serves as a national resource and strategic center to help build the capacity of the movement for health care justice and facilitate the development of strategies to create a U.S. health care system that is: Universal, Comprehensive, High Quality, Affordable, and Publicly Accountable. Read the Health Care Access Resolution.
  http://uhcan.org/
  www.uhcan.org/HCAR/
  
  
• The Whole Person Inc.
  The Whole Person, Inc, an independent living center, assists people with disabilities to live independently and encourages change within the community to expand opportunities for independent living.
  www.thewholeperson.org/

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