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July 15, 2009
The CommonHealth Subcommittee
Meeting Minutes:
September 12, 2007
Present for conference call:
Bill Henning
Bill Allen,
John Miller,
Andy Forem...
July 15, 2009
Employment Now! is a coalition of individuals and organizations that have come together to challenge the assumptions underlying funding, training, p...
July 15, 2009
President George W. Bush signed the ADA Amendments Act into law yesterday. Supported by a broad coalition of advocacy and employer organizations, the ...
July 15, 2009
Reports from the
American College of Chest Physicians
Click on the Titles of each Report to download a PDF copy
Abstract 1 of 4
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July 15, 2009
Selection from Shelter Best Practices
A recent discussion (November 2007) with a Regional Department of Public Health staff member was the impetus f...
July 15, 2009
DOJ's ADA TOOL KIT for State & Local Governments
On December 5, 2006, February 27, 2007, May 7, 2007, and July 26, 2007, the Civil Rights Divis...
July 15, 2009
Lawsuit: DPC vs MEMA
The Disability Policy Consortium, Inc. filed lawsuit in Superior Court on April 6, 2007 against the Massachusetts Emergency Ma...
July 15, 2009
DPH Project Reports
You can access of the project reports that the Disability Policy Consortium completed under contracts with the Massachusetts Dep...
July 15, 2009
The Statewide Task Force on Emergency Planning for People with Disabilities has been working since January 2007 to create a list of recommendat...
July 15, 2009
What you may not know:
In Massachusetts there are 352 communities each with their own Emergency Management Director (EMD), Fire Chief, Police C...
July 15, 2009
Massachusetts has a law similar to what is known on the federal level as a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA). In Massachusetts you may...
July 15, 2009
It is six years after the attack on the World Trade Center and one year after the New Orleans Katrina disaster and our governments have yet to ...
July 15, 2009
July 15, 2009
Legislative leaders asked the DPC in June 2004 “What will be the ‘woodworking’ effect if we support legislation to bring people with adult onset disab...
July 15, 2009
Started in January 2007, Health Care Voices Project is a statewide disability health awareness, education, and advocacy movement across the state. T...
July 15, 2009
People with disabilities continue to be absent from health care planning forums. Dental and eyeglass benefits were restored in July and people with d...
July 15, 2009
Disability advocates are dismayed that sixteen years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act many of the rights people expected to ...
July 15, 2009
The Disability Policy Consortium is pleased to announce that the Legislature’s web site now has a form to allow a person to request communication a...
July 14, 2009
Celebrating Accessibility Achievements
(September 29, 2008)
Watch the video here.
THERESE MURRAY:
Good afternoon. I';d like to welcome all of you ...
July 14, 2009
IRS TAX Credit Information
click here to read directly from the IRS Link
Facts About Disability-Related Tax Provisions
The Internal Revenue Code ha...
July 13, 2009
A Primer on Alternative Formats and Communications Access
The Americans with Disabilities Act requires businesses, institutions, and organizations to...
July 13, 2009
Does your website meet standards?
Simple HTML pages are often readily accessible with few changes necessary.
Traditionally, TML forms processing and...
July 13, 2009
Web accessibility is the next frontier in disability rights.
The American’s with Disabilities Act passed in 1992 with scant attention to the implicat...
July 13, 2009
Governor Patrick is sacrificing his commitment to civil rights in a rush to get billions of fast money through the federal stimulus package for Mass...
July 13, 2009
Download Complete Report
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Executive Summary
Disability affects people of every race, culture, age and economic class, wit...