National Disability Rights Network

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Designed by and for people with disabilities, these items are love letters to community living, disabled activism, and the diversity of the disability community.

The best part: 100% of the profits help our network defend disability rights. When you buy these designs, you fund:

📣 policy advocacy,
⚖️ legal support, and
🔏 protections for people with disabilities.

Colorful merch AND disability rights funds? It's a win-win!

Spread messages of disabled leadership, anti-ableism, and disability pride with the new NDRN merch releases. Order today: https://www.bonfire.com/store/national-disability-rights-network

Isolation in institutions used to be the only option for people with disabilities. The Olmstead decision changed that.

Olmstead v. Lois Curtis and Elaine Wilson was a U.S. Supreme Court case. Lois and Elaine had been inappropriately placed into hospitals and institutions since they were teenagers. On June 22, 1999, the Court ruled that the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits the unnecessary institutionalization of individuals with disabilities.

This decision laid the foundation for people with disabilities to live in the community instead of institutions. Home and community-based services make community living possible. That’s why Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agencies from California to Connecticut fight every day to protect these services.

What is Olmstead? THIS is Olmstead: upheld and defended every day by the P&A network.

Here's to deinstitutionalization and community living.

Disability Rights Ohio
Disability Rights Center - NH
AARP Foundation
Disability Rights North Carolina
North Carolina Council on Developmental Disabilities
Disability Rights California
Disability Rights Connecticut