Links to Protection and Advocacy Organizations
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NDRN - The National Disability Rights Network (NDRN), is the voluntary national membership association of protection & advocacy systems and client assistance programs (including Advocacy, Inc.) http://www.ndrn.org
Alabama Client Assistance Program - a state agency that is unique in all the nation for providing services to children and adults with disabilities. http://www.rehab.state.al.us
Alabama Protection & Advocacy Organization - ADAP provides quality, legally-based advocacy services to persons with disabilities through protecting, promoting, and expanding their rights. http://www.adap.net
Arizona Protection & Advocacy Organization - The Arizona Center for Disability Law advocates for the legal rights of persons with disabilities to be free from abuse, neglect and discrimination and to have access to education, health care, jobs, and other services in order to maximize independence and achieve equality. http://www.nau.edu/~ihd/acdl
Arkansas Protection & Advocacy Organization/Client Assistance Program - Advocacy Services, Inc. is a federally funded, private non-profit agency which serves as the independent protection and advocacy system for people with disabilities in Arkansas. http://www.advocacyservices.org
California Protection & Advocacy Organization - PAI works in partnership with people with disabilities - to protect, advocate for and advance their human, legal and service rights. We strive toward a society that values all people and supports their rights to dignity, freedom, choice and quality of life. http://www.pai-ca.org
Florida Protection & Advocacy Organization/Client Assistance Program - The Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities Inc., is a non-profit organization providing protection and advocacy services in the State of Florida. http://www.advocacycenter.org
Georgia Protection & Advocacy Organization - The Georgia Advocacy Office (GAO) is a private non-profit corporation. Its mission is to work with and for oppressed and vulnerable individuals in Georgia who are labeled as disabled or mentally ill to secure their protection and advocacy. http://thegao.org
Idaho Protection & Advocacy Organization/Client Assistance Program - Comprehensive Advocacy, Inc. (Co-Ad) protects, promotes and advances the legal and human rights of people with disabilities, through quality legal, individual, and system advocacy. http://users.moscow.com/co-ad
Massachusetts Protection & Advocacy Organization - The Disability Law Center is a private, non-profit public interest law firm providing free legal assistance and information to people with disabilities throughout Massachusetts. http://www.dlc-ma.org/
Michigan Protection & Advocacy Organization/Client Assistance Program - Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service, Inc. (MPAS) is a private, non-profit organization designated by the Governor to protect and promote the human and legal rights of people with disabilities in Michigan through the provision of information and advocacy. http://www.mpas.org
Montana Protection & Advocacy Organization/Client Assistance Program - The Montana Advocacy Program (MAP) is a non-profit corporation that administers five Protection and Advocacy programs that advocate the rights of Montanans with disabilities. http://www.mtadv.org/
Nevada Client Assistance Program - The CLIENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM provides information across Nevada about benefits and services to individuals under the Americans with Disabilities Act and about all available benefits and services under the Rehabilitation Act. http://www.ndalc.org/
Nevada Disability Advocacy and Law Center - Nevada Disability Advocacy and Law Center (NDALC) is Nevada's federally mandated protection and advocacy system for the human, legal, and service rights for individuals with disabilities. http://www.ndalc.org
New Jersey Protection & Advocacy Organization/Client Assistance Program - New Jersey Protection and Advocacy, Inc. (NJP&A) is the consumer-controlled, non-profit organization that serves as New Jersey's designated protection and advocacy system for people with disabilities in the state. http://www.njpanda.org.
New Mexico Protection & Advocacy Organization/Client Assistance Program - We are advocates working together with people who have disabilities in promoting and protecting their legal and service rights http://www.nmpanda.org/
New York Protection & Advocacy Organization/Client Assistance Program - The Commission on Quality of Care for the Mentally Disabled serves people with mental disabilities and their families by providing independent oversight of the quality and cost effectiveness of services provided by all mental hygiene programs in New York State. It administers five federal formula grant programs through which it provides legal and non-legal advocacy services to persons with disabilities to assist them in obtaining the services and protections of federal and state laws. http://www.cqc.state.ny.us
North Carolina Protection & Advocacy Organization - The Governor's Advocacy Council for Persons with Disabilities (GACPD) is part of a nationwide system of protection and advocacy agencies. It is a civil rights protection agency committed to serving citizens with disabilities in North Carolina. http://www.gacpd.com/
Ohio Protection & Advocacy Organization - Ohio Legal Rights Service (OLRS) is an independent state agency and the federally designated Protection and Advocacy (P & A) agency for Ohio. The mission of this agency is to protect and advocate the human, civil, and legal rights of people with disabilities. OLRS' goal is to enable people with disabilities to realize self-determination, equality of opportunity, and full participation. http://www.state.oh.us/olrs
Oklahoma Protection & Advocacy Organization - the mission of the Oklahoma Disability Law Center, Inc. is to protect, promote and expand the rights of people with disabilities and mental illness. http://www.flash.net/~odlcokc/
South Dakota Protection & Advocacy Organization/Client Assistance Program - South Dakota Advocacy Services (SDAS) is an independent, private, non-profit, tax exempt corporation designated by the Governor to assist in providing protection and advocacy services to eligible South Dakotans. http://www.sdadvocacy.com/services.asp
Utah Protection & Advocacy Organization/Client Assistance Program - To enforce and strengthen the laws that protect the rights of people with disabilities in Utah through legal advocacy. http://www.disabilitylawcenter.org
Virginia Protection & Advocacy Organization/Client Assistance Program - The Department is dedicated to the mission of providing responsive, expert assistance and legal representation to address disability-related abuse and neglect, discrimination, and inappropriate services and treatment throughout Virginia. http://www.vopa.state.va.us/
Washington Protection & Advocacy Organization - The Washington Protection and Advocacy System (WPAS) is a private, non-profit organization that has been protecting the rights of people with disabilities since 1974. http://www.wpas-rights.org/
West Virginia Protection & Advocacy Organization/Client Assistance Program - West Virginia Advocates, Inc. (WVA) provides advocacy to people with disabilities. WVA services are supported by federal, state, and private funds. WVA is the designated protection and advocacy agency for West Virginians with disabilities under the federally mandated national protection and advocacy system. WVA operates five distinct federal protection and advocacy programs which address the diverse needs of people with disabilities http://www.wvadvocates.org
Wisconsin Coalition for Advocacy The Wisconsin Coalition for Advocacy (WCA) is the designated protection and advocacy agency for people with disabilities in Wisconsin. WCA engages in a variety of strategies including, providing individual advocacy assistance for people with disabilities and their families; training for consumers, their family members, and a variety of professionals; and legislative/systems advocacy and coalition efforts to make the human service and government systems more responsive to the needs of people with disabilities