Priority Issues
Disability Law Center Fiscal Year 2010 Goals

This provides a general overview of the DLC's long range goals. For more information, contact Eric Mitchell, Director of Community Relations, at 1-800-662-9080 (Voice) or 1-800-550-4182 (TTY)

Abuse and Neglect

Team Mission
Implement strategies that will prevent abuse and neglect in private health care facilities.

  • Investigate abuse and neglect of people with disabilities in public and private residential facilities
  • Reporting and prosecution of abuse and neglect
  • Youth Residential Treatment Facilities

Access and Rights

Team Mission
Increase access by people with disabilities to services, programs, and facilities open to the public and reduce discriminatory barriers in voting, employment and housing, especially in rural Utah.

  • Access to services, programs, and facilities
  • Employment
  • Housing (systemic advocacy)
  • Transportation (systemic advocacy)
  • Voting

Education

Team Mission
Ensure that all Utah children with disabilities have available to them a free, appropriate public education (FAPE) designed to meet their unique needs.

  • Eligibility, services, and transition
  • Juvenile Justice issues
  • Self-advocacy training and technical assistance
  • Systemic policy issues

Employment

Team Mission
Provide information and assistance to people with disabilities that will maximize their independence and remove barriers to employment.

  • Access to appropriate services
  • Access to information about Voc Rehab and Independent Living Centers
  • Self-advocacy
  • Un/underemployment in rural areas

Public Policy

Team Mission
The Disability Law Center (DLC) bases its public policy on the belief that Utahns with disabilities have the constitutional right and responsibility to be full participants in society. The DLC's legislative agenda is informed by our organizational mission, values, and priorities and goals, and formulated with guidance from the Board of Trustees and input from our clients and constituents across the state.


If you have any questions or suggestions for our legislative team, please contact Andrew Riggle our Public Policy Advocate at ariggle@disabilitylawcenter.org or at 1-800-662-9080 (Voice)

 

STAT

Team Mission
Represent the Disability Law Center as front line of advocacy and information to the community and support the issue teams in their advocacy efforts.

  • Information and assistance
  • Legal clinics
  • Referral