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How are We Doing?

This is your chance to share how you think DRI is doing serving the disability community in Iowa.  

DRI provides legal-based advocacy to Iowans with disabilities in disability rights issues. If we cannot help, we will try to find someone who can help.  DRI helps adults and youth with disabilities. DRI does not have an income limit to qualify for assistance.   

Every three years DRI's Board asks Iowans with disabilities for help deciding how DRI should focus their advocacy in the coming years.  In the middle of the three-year cycle, DRI asks Iowans with disabilities if DRI is meeting their needs as requested through the Board Survey.   Results help guide the future of DRI’s 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"
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Keeping Iowans with Disabilities 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! 
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Civil Rights 
 
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! 
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Community Living 
 
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! 
5. 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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