Priority Issues
Disability Law Center Fiscal Year Proposed 2006-2009 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) or e-mail ericmitchell@disabilitylawcenter.org.

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 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

Community Services

Team Mission
Ensure that all people with disabilities have access to appropriate services in the community.

  • Assistive technology
  • DSPD waiting list
  • Enhanced DLC services in rural Utah
  • Mental health treatment for juveniles
  • Services for persons with mental retardation and mental illness in the Utah State Hospital

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

Institutions

Team Mission
Reduce and eliminate abuse and neglect in Utah’s state institutions and ensure that appropriate accommodations, access to programming, and mental health services are provided to people in these institutions.

  • Adult Corrections
  • Juvenile Justice
  • Utah State Developmental Center
  • Utah State Hospital

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