Law & Policy Resources

LAW & POLICY RESOURCES

Action Inc. Medical review team for Pennsylvania Disability Advocate Project.

ADA Technical Assistance Program is a federally funded network of grantees which provides information, training, and technical assistance to businesses and agencies with duties and responsibilities under the ADA and to people with disabilities with rights under the ADA. As part of the ADA Technical Assistance Program, ten regional DBTACs provide information and referral, technical assistance, public awareness, and training on all aspects of the ADA.

American Pain Foundation A nonprofit information resource and patient advocacy organization serving people with pain. Their mission is to improve the quality of life of people with pain by providing practical information for patients, raising public awareness and understanding of pain, and advocating against barriers to effective treatment.

Americans with Disabilities Act Document Center includes ADA Statute, regulations, ADAAG (Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines), Federally Reviewed Tech Sheets, and other assistance documents. Created by Duncan C. Kinder with the assistance of the Job Accommodation Network, the Great Lakes Disability and Business Technical Assistance Center, and the ADA OHIO Steering Committee

The ADA Information Center for the Mid-Atlantic Region is established to provide training, information, and technical assistance on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to businesses, consumers, and state and local governments. You may order materials from the Center's extensive library of ADA and disability- related publications. The materials are provided free or at low cost. These materials include the full regulations, technical assistance manuals, architectural guidelines, easy-to-read fact sheets and summaries, advice on how to make different types of businesses accessible to the public, and consultation on employment issues, such as reasonable accommodation. All materials are available in alternate formats such as large print, Braille, tape, and computer disk.

The Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) is a coalition of national disability organizations working together to advocate for national public policy that ensures the self determination, independence, empowerment, integration and inclusion of children and adults with disabilities in all aspects of society.

Department of Justice: ADA Settlements and Consent Agreements U.S. Department of Justice operates an electronic reading room for viewing ADA documents including settlements and consent agreements.

icon publishing developed a ADA/FMLA Reference Library on CD-ROM. Contains current information regarding laws and final rules, rights and responsibilities, questions and answers, fact sheets, recent case law, technical assistance, resources and contacts.

FirstGov - This is the NEW Federal Government Web Portal that just started. It contains an index of millions of Government web pages.

Law.com: Business provides business law headlines and analysis, Law Dictionary, briefing papers, and links to law and business sites.

NCD BULLETIN A monthly publication of the National Council on Disability (NCD), is free of charge, available in alternative formats, and available on the Internet, brings you the latest issues and news affecting people with disabilities.

The National Rehabilitation Association offers information-packed educational programs and is a powerful government advocacy to discount insurance. This site keeps you informed, involved and in focus.

The National School-to-Work Learning & Information Center has been working with partnerships, practitioners, and the public at large to answer: What is school-to-work? How do you start a school-to-work initiative in your community? What models work? Who has good examples of integrated curriculum? How do you create a school-to-work system with so many different stakeholder interests?

The Social Security Administration (SSA): Social Security has a toll-free number that operates from 7AM to 7PM, Monday to Friday: 1-800-772-1213 If you have a touch-tone phone, recorded information and services are available 24 hours a day, including weekends and holidays. People who are deaf or hard of hearing may call the toll-free "TTY" number, 1-800-325-0778, between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Monday through Friday.

Social Security Administration - The Work Site promotes the employment of Social Security beneficiaries with disabilities by: designing policies that make work pay; promoting research and program innovation; educating the public about programs and services that facilitate entry into the workforce; partnering with other public and private groups to remove employment barriers for people with disabilities.

State Legislatures - Listing of links to every state legislature.

The U.S. Access Board, (also known as the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board), is the federal agency which develops minimum guidelines and requirements for standards issued under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Architectural Barriers Act (ABA), develops accessibility guidelines for telecommunications equipment and customer premises equipment under the Telecommunications Act, develops accessibility standards for electronic and information technology under section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, provides technical assistance on those guidelines and standards, and enforces the Architectural Barriers Act.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) promotes equal opportunity in employment through administrative and judicial enforcement of the federal civil rights laws and through education and technical assistance.

USWORKFORCE.ORG is designed to provide both answers to current and emerging questions about the Workforce Investment Act, and a work space where anyone and everyone with an interest in workforce development can pose questions, participate in discussion, and gather information. It represents an unprecedented collaboration between public and private sector groups and individuals to provide access to workforce information and resources and to apply that information toward innovative and effective partnerships and programs.