Envisioning the Future: Allies in Self Advocacy Report

Updated on 12/13/2011 1:47:57 PM.

The Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD) launched an unprecedented commitment to better understand what is happening nationally in the self-advocacy movement. With the goal of strengthening and enhancing those efforts, the Commissioner of ADD called for a series of regional self-advocacy summits. The purpose of the summits is four-fold:

• to assess what is currently happening in the states in self-advocacy - the support structures, activities, accomplishments and challenges;
• to plan steps we can take to strengthen and enhance current efforts at the state level;
• to develop recommendations for actions that we can take at the national level; and
• to develop policy recommendations that can lead to a stronger, more effective, and long lasting self-advocacy movement across the country.

A full report, summary report, and video of the summary report are now available at: http://alliesinselfadvocacy.org