Welcome to Disability Rights Advocates
Disability Rights Advocates (DRA) engages in multi-pronged strategies to achieve systemic change for people with disabilities. Some of these strategies include direct negotiations, education and regulatory advocacy. DRA pursues these efforts as part of organized projects to achieve systemic improvements outside of traditional litigation.
Disability Rights Advocates is working with GGNRA on a plan to address barriers to access and enjoyment of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) by people with mobility and sensory disabilities. Learn More about the GGNRA Project.
To address the numerous barriers to quality health care and insurance that people with disabilities face everyday, DRA created the Health Access Project. We work to remove access barriers through litigation, research and public education, leading the way in protecting the right to access health care for people with disabilities. Learn more about the Health Access Project>
In 2004, DRA initiated a telecommunications project focused on representing the needs of people with disabilities before the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). Major changes in telecommunications are affecting people with disabilities; however until DRA initiated this project, there was no entity regularly representing their interests before one of California's most powerful regulatory agencies. Learn more about the Telecommunication Project>
Education is key to overcoming many of the barriers that people with disabilities face. Unfortunately, education itself has been a major obstacle due to access barriers. DRA challenges the barriers at all levels from K-12 to college and graduate studies. DRA's work seeks to remove physical barriers in school facilities, modifications of discriminatory policies and entrance and exit exams and other high stakes exams accessible. Learn more about the Access to Education Project.
Through the San Francisco Foundation, Disability Rights Advocates established the DRA Fund to support projects that advance the rights and fill unmet needs of people with disabilities.
The DRA Fund announces the availability of emergency grants to organizations to assist mobilizing people with disabilities to act upon time-sensitive and urgent matters affecting the disability community. Up to $7,500 is available in funding and may be used to cover the transportation, interpreter, and/or personal assistant costs associated with a community mobilization effort.
For more information, please contact the San Francisco Foundation.
