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Disability Rights Iowa Areas of Focus Planning Survey 2025

Disability Rights Iowa (DRI) provides legal-based advocacy to Iowans with disabilities in disability civil rights issues. If we cannot help, we will provide a referral to an agency that may be able to help.  DRI provides legal-based advocacy to both adults and youth with disabilities.  Every three years DRI's Board of Directors decides the types of disability rights issues DRI will focus on for the following three years.  In September of 2025, DRI’s Board will determine our new Areas of Focus for 2026-2029.   We encourage you to share the disability issues most impacting you and your community.  Your responses to this survey will help determine DRI’s next three years of disability-rights advocacy.   To Learn more about DRI's current Areas of Focus visit our website. 

1. First, to ensure you are a human, please select the option that says "orange"
2. Ensuring Accountability of Systems: KEEP IOWANS WITH DISABILIITES SAFE

Systems include places that provide services and/or supports for individuals with disabilities and/or a place where individuals with disabilities reside.

This includes:
  • facilities - institutions where people with disabilities live and receive care, such as nursing homes, intermediate care facilities (ICF), psychiatric hospitals, jails, and prisons;
  • disability service providers - organizations that provide home and community-based (HCBS) services and supports to people with disabilities living in the community;
  • representative payees - a person or organization that manages social security payments for people with disabilities;
  • and more!
3. Disability Civil Rights:  ALL PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES POSSESS THE CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS AFFORDED TO ALL


DRI works to:
  • ensure equal access to state and local government services, programs and activities (includes access to schools and government buildings); 
  • ensure equal access to public spaces;
  • reduce the number of Iowans with unnecessary substitute decision makers; 
  • ensure voting is fully accessible; 
  • and more!
  • * This question is required.
4. Community Inclusion: PEOPLE WITH DISABILITES LIVE, WORK, AND LEARN IN THE COMMUNITY OF THEIR CHOICE WITH NECESSARY SUPPORTS AND SERVICES


DRI works to:
  • ensure Iowans with disabilities move from institutions to the community with all supports and services they are entitled;
  • advocate for Iowans with disabilities to remain living in the community of their choice with the necessary supports and services they are entitled to, and are not at risk of being placed in an institution;
  • ensure access to Medicaid long-term services and supports, including durable medical equipment and early, periodic, screening, diagnosis and treatment for children up to the age of 21;
  • increase assistive technology and services for adults and children with disabilities at school, home, work, facilities, and in the community;
  • support employees and job applicants to ensure reasonable accommodations are provided;
  • provide planning and assistance to Social Security beneficiaries who want to return to work, but are fearful of losing essential supports;
  • assist individuals who want to use employment services to navigate vocational services or other employment networks;
  • remove employment  barriers for Social Security beneficiaries;
  • keep students with challenging behaviors in school all day and assist them in making adequate progress in curriculum;
  • and more!
  • * This question is required.
6. To ensure you are human one more time, please select the option that says "book"
Who Are You?

DRI helps people in Iowa with disabilities. This information is not required but will help us understand who we are reaching and where.
 
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