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Disability Rights Oregon (DRO) is Oregon's Protection & Advocacy (P&A) System.
We help people who have a disability-related legal issue in Oregon.
Click here to see a list of our handbooks and guides. The topics include Social Security, guardianship, developmental disability services, employment, special education, mental health law, and housing.
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DRO is seeking a new Director of Operations. Please see our employment page for more information.
DRO has launched a Special Education Volunteer Attorney Program. We are seeking volunteer attorneys who are interested in helping students learn and make progress in school. Please click this link for more information.
- Disability Rights Oregon launches Special Education Volunteer Attorney program
- Disability Rights Oregon is seeking volunteer attorneys to increase its ability to help Oregon’s children with disabilities who are not receiving adequate special education services. Volunteer attorneys will assist students whose situations can be appropriately addressed with straightforward written complaints, limited to clear violations of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). DRO’s Special Education Advocacy Program has been designed so that participating volunteer attorneys will be able to do valuable and needed work with a high degree of control over how that work impacts their own schedules and practice demands.
- Free CLE: Protecting the Rights of Students with Disabilities
- Attend this free CLE to learn more about special education advocacy and DRO's new Special Education Volunteer Attorney program. This free CLE will be hosted by Smith Freed and Eberhard P.C. on April 18, 2013. The CLE presentation will be 3pm-4:30pm. It will be followed by a meet and greet from 4:30pm-5:30pm with hors d'oeuvres and beverages provided. 1.5 CLE credits pending. Register by April 11. Registration is limited to 50 attendees.
- Legislative Update - 2/22/13
- This week's legislative update addresses mental health service dogs for veterans, family law, the state disabilities act, restraint and seclusion in schools, and mental health crisis services, abuse protection and funding.
Editorials about the work Disability Rights Oregon is doing, and state, local and national disability issues. Written by Disability Rights Oregon Executive Director Bob Joondeph. The most recent 3 blog posts are below.
- Mental Health Funding in Oregon: Doubling Down on Segregation
- Why is Oregon's approach to spending on mental health services like a confidence game?
- The Governor's Executive Order
- Empty Promises for People in Sheltered Workshops
- Meaningful Choice
- If a person with disabilities is offered to choose between an established segregated service or a poorly funded, trained or regulated integrated service, does she really have a "choice?"
Local and national news relevant to Oregon clients, consumers and advocates, including public services, community events and legal issues.
- EEOC issues revised publications on employment rights for people with specific disabilities
- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today issued four revised documents on protection against disability discrimination, pursuant to the goal of the agency’s Strategic Plan to provide up-to-date guidance on the requirements of antidiscrimination laws. In plain, easy-to-understand language, the revised documents reflect the changes to the definition of disability made by the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA) that make it easier to conclude that individuals with a wide range of impairments, including cancer, diabetes, epilepsy, and intellectual disabilities, are protected by the ADA. Each of the documents also answers questions about topics such as: when an employer may obtain medical information from applicants and employees; what types of reasonable accommodations individuals with these particular disabilities might need; how an employer should handle safety concerns; and what an employer should do to prevent and correct disability-based harassment.
- OPB story on "seclusion cells" in schools
- An audio and text OPB story on the use of seclusion rooms in schools and the current legislative effort to ban their use. Chris Lehman visits and describes a seclusion room. We have embedded the audio in this link.
- Housing discrimination? There's an (iPhone) app for that!
- HUD has released an iPhone and iPad app for housing discrimination. You can learn about your rights and file a complaint.
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