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Response to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
- The Office on Disability was created in 1975 in response to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as a Division within the Mayor’s Office. In 1998, the Mayor and the City Council created the Department on Disabilities, the first of its kind in the nation.
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This led to the development and beginnings of the City of Los Angeles Department on Disability (DOD). Shortly after this, the Rehabilitation Act was passed in 1973 and in 1990 the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was enacted into Federal law.
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About Department on Disability. The Department on Disability is responsible for: Proposing, developing and implementing policies, programs, services, and activities that will improve the quality of life for persons with disabilities; and. Development and implementation of the City's federally mandated ADA Transition Plan, which is designed to ...
The Office on Disability was created in 1975 in response to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as a Division within the Mayor’s Office. In 1998, the Mayor and the City Council created the Department on Disabilities, the first of its kind in the nation.
Oct 7, 2024 · The Department on Disability, on behalf of the City of Los Angeles, is committed to ensuring full access to employment, programs, facilities and services; through strategic management and partnership education, advocacy, training, research and improved service delivery; for the benefit of persons with disabilities, providers of essential ...
- 2002 Help America Vote Act
- 2001 Peer Self-Advocacy Project Becomes Its Own Program
- 2006 National Federation of The Blind V Target
- 2002 California Memorial Project; Remembering Those Who Died in Institutions
- 2006 Un Adopts Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- 2008 American Council of The Blind V Paulson
- 2004 DRC Reached Settlement with San Francisco Over Laguna Honda Hospital
- 2008 Mental Health Parity Act
- 2008 Ada Amendments Act
- 2009 Successful Fights Against State Budget Cuts
In 2002, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act. It made sweeping reforms to the US voting process. One of the most significant changes was a requirement that voting systems allow people with disabilities to vote privately and independently. Something many people with disabilities, such as people who are blind, have manual dexterity disabilities...
Disability Rights California's Peer Self-Advocacy Program (PSA) promotes the concept that sharing personal experiences and feelings is a powerful tool to help people with mental health disabilities learn about their rights. PSA’s goals are to help people understand their human, legal and service rights. “We focus our work on teaching people how to ...
The blind community made access strides in the early 2000s. A US District Court determined in National Federation of the Blind v Target Corp. that the ADA and California law applies to websites and the Internet.
From the mid-1800s to the 1960s, an estimated 45,000 people died while living in state institutions. For the most part, the state placed the remains in unmarked mass graves and records are incomplete. In 2002, disability rights advocates, including Disability Rights California's Peer Self-Advocacy Program began an effort to restore the graves and c...
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, adopted in 2006, is an international human rights treaty of the United Nations. Parties to the Convention must ensure the full enjoyment of human rights and equality under the law. The Convention helped make changes globally from viewing people with disabilities as objects of charity, medic...
A US District Court in American Council of the Blind v Paulson ruled that American paper money gave an undue burden to people who are blind. The bills denied them “meaningful access” to the US currency system. Because of the lawsuit, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing is placing a raised tactile feature in the next redesign of each note, except t...
Mark Chambers was a successful computer systems manager before he got a head injury in 1999. He entered Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center, a large nursing facility in San Francisco. “I don’t want to spend the rest of my life here,” Chambers said in 2006. He and five other residents of Laguna Honda and the Independent Living Resource C...
The federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 prevents health insurance providers from offering less favorable benefits for mental health issues as for medical issues. Mental health parity means equal coverage for health care. In 2014, the Affordable Care Act expanded the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act to apply to...
The Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008 clarifies that the definition of disability favors the broadest number of people and generally does not require extensive analysis. It rejects the holdings in several Supreme Court decisions. The effect of the changes is to make it easier for a person to establish they have a disability wit...
drc prevailed in three cases involving government budget cuts to critical community-based services. In 2009, David Oster learned his IHSS would be eliminated. These cuts put him and 130,000 low-income people with disabilities at risk of institutionalization instead of living in their own homes. drc reached a settlement fully restoring IHSS hours. T...
Mar 11, 1998 · Los Angeles City Council members Mike Feuer and Richard Alatorre have proposed the creation of a separate city department on disability, designed to jump-start the city's belated...
Nov 6, 2018 · In 1978, Gov. Jerry Brown designated Disability Rights California, then known as Protection & Advocacy, Inc. (PAI), as California’s statewide organization with our flagship office in Sacramento. PAI has a rich history of advocating for the rights of Californians with disabilities.
