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Disability Rights Maine Receives 2025 Advocacy Award
June 2, 2025
In a remote part of Maine, an individual with a representative payee was subjected to horrific conditions, neglect, and financial exploitation. Thanks to the swift and determined action of DRME, this individual is now safe and receiving the support and services they deserve.
General - Funding
National Disability Radio: Spilling the Tea on All Things
May 29, 2025
NDRN's Deputy Executive Director for Public Policy Eric Buehlmann came on the podcast to explain what's going on with the budget and how it impacts the funding NDRN and the Protection and Advocacy network receives.
Podcast - P&A Advocacy
Disability Network Warns: Eliminating ACL Will Endanger Lives, Erode Rights, and Collapse Community Supports for 1 in 4 Americans
April 24, 2025
A leaked draft budget from the Trump administration proposes eliminating the Administration for Community Living (ACL), threatening essential services for people with disabilities and older Americans. National disability organizations — NDRN, NACDD, and AUCD — strongly oppose the move, warning it would dismantle the Developmental Disabilities Network (P&As, DD…
Press Release - Voting
The National Coalition on Accessible Voting (NCAV) Strongly Opposes the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act and its intent to Suppress the Vote of Marginalized Communities
April 1, 2025
The consequences of enacting such laws has the potential to negatively impact the rights of disabled voters, including the right to voter assistance, or total exclusion from the democratic process altogether, based on perception and false misconceptions.
Press Release - Education
National Disability Radio: Should Stephanie Get a Cat?
March 31, 2025
This we had on Taylor Easley for Social Work Month. Taylor talks about her experiences earning a social work degree and how social work overlaps with the disability rights movement.
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