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ACL is excited to announce the first-ever grant to establish a National Resource Center for Self-Advocacy (NRCSA) to empower people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) for enhancing their voice on issues important to their well-being and daily life. Self Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE) will lead the effort in partnership with several organizations.
The self-advocacy movement is a human and civil rights movement, stemming from the civil rights movement of the 1960’s, but led by individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to ensure they have the same rights, responsibilities, and opportunities as people without disabilities. Starting internationally more than 40 years ago, the movement has empowered individuals to make choices in their lives, provided opportunities to have a voice, and opened pathways for leadership development.
“The people affected by policy should have the greatest voice in developing it,” said Katherine Cargill-Willis, Program Specialist with AIDD. “With this grant, ACL aims to make this ideal more of a reality for people with disabilities.”
Self Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE) will lead the effort as part of a $2 million, five-year cooperative agreement funded by ACL under the Administration on Disabilities as an AIDDProject of National Significance. Partner organizations on the new resource center include:
- Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN)
- Green Mountain Self Advocates (GMSA)
- Heartland Self-Advocacy Resource Network (HSRN)
- North East Advocates Together (NEAT)
- Pacific Alliance
- Project Action!
- Our Communities Standing Strong (OCSS)
- Southwest Alliance
- Southwest Institute for Families and Children (SWI)
- TASH
- University of Missouri-Kansas City Institute for Human Development (UCEDD) (UMKC-IHD)