Civil Disobedience Disability Justice 1987 Over the course of seven years of direct action, ADAPT (Americans Disabled for Accessible Public Transit – changed to Americ [...]
Americans with Disabilities Act Passes Disability Justice 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in emp [...]
Olmstead Supreme Court Case Disability Justice 1999 A United States Supreme Court case regarding discrimination held that under the Americans with Disability Act, individuals with me [...]
Money Follows the Person Disability Justice 2005 Money Follows the Person (MFP) is integrated into healthcare funding. MFP is part of a comprehensive, coordinated strategy to assi [...]
Community First Choice Option (CFCO) Disability Justice 2013 Community First Choice Option moves the Home and Community Based Services waiver into the Medicaid state plan. These services incl [...]
Fighting Nursing Homes Disability Justice 2014 Long term resistance and direct action leads to secured, state-funded housing vouchers for people transitioning out of nursing ho [...]
National ADA Symosium Disability Justice 2015 Changed policies and practices of the National ADA Symposium to include the local disability community. Grantee Changemaker [...]
Affordable Care Act Disability Justice 2017 18 disability rights advocates are arrested protesting a Colorado representative’s support of repealing the Affordab [...]
Health Care is a Human Right Disability Justice 2017 As we celebrate 30 years of fighting for what is right for our most vulnerable populations in Colorado, we must join continue the [...]
