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Self Advocacy Organizations and Programs

Resources for Self Advocacy Organizations and Programs in Tennessee for people with disabilities and families.

Kids As Self Advocates

Kids As Self Advocates (KASA) is an organization created by youth with disabilities for youth to educate society about issues concerning youth with a wide spectrum of disabilities and special healthcare needs.

Legal Aid Help Library

Includes legal education and self-help materials on getting health care and medicine, health insurance, nursing home problems, and more.

Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services (TALS)

Provides information about legal and advocacy services for low-income Tennesseans in the civil legal justice system.

Tennessee Disability Coalition

The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD)

The country's largest cross-disability membership organization, organizes the disability community to advocate for change – politically, economically, and socially.

The Arc of Tennessee

The Arc of Tennessee is a grassroots, non-profit, statewide organization on intellectual & developmental disabilities. It was founded in 1952 and is affiliated with The Arc of the United States. The Arc of Tennessee is also a membership organization composed of people with intellectual, developmental and other disabilities, their parents, friends, and the professionals who assist them in reaching their goals.

The Partners in Policymaking Leadership Institute

A training initiative of the Tennessee Council on Developmental Disabilities. The Institute is designed to provide adults with disabilities and parents of children with disabilities with the latest information on disability policy issues, and to help them become advocates for themselves, and for others in their communities.

The Tennessee Youth Leadership Forum

A training initiative of the Tennessee Council on Developmental Disabilities. The Forum is designed to provide 10th, 11th, and 12th grade high school students who have disabilities with information about disability issues, and to help them become advocates for themselves, and for others in their communities.

Volunteer Advocacy Project

The Volunteer Advocacy Project trains volunteers as advocates to provide instrumental and effective support to parents of children with disabilities. Now Accepting Spring 2010 Applications!