Disability Rights Maryland's FY 2025 Advocacy Services Plan Survey

FY 2025 Advocacy Services Plan Survey

Disability Rights Maryland (DRM) strives to create a just and inclusive society by advancing the rights of people with disabilities, securing their opportunities to participate fully in community life, and defending their rights to self-determination, dignity, equality, choice, and safety. DRM receives federal money to provide legal services to Marylanders with disabilities. We would like your help to decide which issues we should focus our limited resources on for the next three years.

DRM provides legal and advocacy services in the following general areas:

· Freedom from Abuse and Neglect

·Freedom from Unnecessary Institutionalization

· Access to Education

· Access to Transportation

· Access to Community-Based Services for People with Traumatic Brain

Injury

· Access to Assistive Technology Devices and Services

· Access to Housing

· Protection of Voting Rights

· Access to Medicaid and Health Care Services that are Non-

Discriminatory and Equitable

· Protection of Employment Supports

· Advocacy for Social Security Beneficiaries

To answer a brief survey and provide input on DRM’s advocacy and legal priorities, please continue below. Please answer based on your personal experience, or your relationship with the people with disabilities in your life. DRM needs your reply by: August 22, 2024. Thank you!

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* 1. I am (check all that apply)

a person with a disability

an advocate for people with disabilities

a family member of a person with a disability

a service provider for people with disabilities

Other (please specify)

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* 2. I live in the following Maryland county:

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* 3. OPTIONAL: If you are a person with a disability or a family member of a person with a disability, what is your:

Race/Ethnicity?

Gender?

Age of person with disability?

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* 4. What is the most important legal issue DRM should work on over the next several years?

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* 5. What can DRM do to better protect the rights of people with disabilities?

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* 6. How can DRM better serve people with disabilities in Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) communities and others affected by intersectional discrimination and oppression? Do you recommend any groups we should connect with to accomplish this?

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* 7. Do you have suggestions for how DRM should collaborate with the disability community?

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* 8. Is there anything else you would like to tell us about our services?

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* 9. OPTIONAL: If you would like to receive DRM’s newsletter, please give us your contact information:

Name

Address

Address 2

City/Town

State/Province

ZIP/Postal Code

Email Address