To give voucher programs a toehold in state legislatures, politicians touted how students with disabilities would gain access to private education. But those students’ families often have the hardest time finding schools that will accept them.

The Voter EVE (Education and Voter Engagement) webinar is to educate our community on the importance of voting in the midterm elections (what are midterm elections, what's on the ballot and why it is important to participate in the electoral process) access to resources and supports as a voter with disability and how people with disabilities and everyone can request assistance in voting. Learning Objectives: 1. Define what the midterm elections and explain why it is important to participate. 2. Identify what is on the ballot and identify different ways votes can be casted. 3. Access resources and recognize the Right to Help and the Right to Request. Speaker: Monica Wiley, NDRN

If you receive home care, you are also an employer — whether you hire through IHSS or privately. That means a task list, a paycheck, a set of legal obligations, and a working relationship you have to manage, often while navigating a benefits system that is shifting under your feet. This two-hour training starts with the resource that answers the benefits questions. DB101 California is a free, plain-language website that explains how the state's benefit programs work and lets you run your own numbers before you make a decision — we'll walk through it live so you know how to use it on your own. From there, Hand in Hand's My Home is Someone's Workplace curriculum turns to the employer side: defining the work, understanding what the law requires of you, and building communication that keeps a good worker in the job. Amid Medi-Cal budget pressure and federal changes under H.R. 1, home care recipients are being asked to make consequential decisions with incomplete information. This workshop is designed to give consumers, families, and the professionals who support them a practical footing on both fronts and to leave you with tools you can return to long after the session ends.

Many Dateability users said they were drawn to the app after negative experiences on mainstream platforms.

“The foundation that underpins our nation’s wide spectrum of community-based services is crumbling,” write Barbara Merrill and Tony Coelho.

"The ADA owes its birthright not to any one person, or any few, but to the many thousands of people who make up the disability rights movement..."

The Trump administration is unveiling long-awaited details about new, more stringent Medicaid eligibility rules and raising fresh concerns about implications for people with disabilities.