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Governor's Council for People with Disabilities

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• ➥ Accessible, Universal Design
• ➥ Advocacy Training
• ➥ Americans with Disabilities (ADA) / Civil Rights
• ➥ Arts / Culture
• ➥ Assistive Technology
• ➥ Children and Youth
• ➥ Community Inclusion / Housing & Livability
• ➥ Data / Statistics
• ➥ Disability Rights Organizations
• ➥ Education (K-Post Secondary)
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• ➥ Travel / Recreation
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Accessible, Universal Design

• ADA Standards for Accessible Design
• Center for Universal Design
• Functional Homes: Universal Design for Accessibility
• Human Centered Design Institute
• Indiana Complete Streets Initiative

Advocacy Training

• ADA Online Training Courses
• Advocacy Unlimited Online Courses and Tutorials
• Disability Rights Course
• Financing Special Health Care Needs Training Series
• Indiana Advocacy Training Programs
• Learn About Self Advocacy Online
• Partners in Policymaking Online Training
• Successful Strategies for Getting What You Want from Government

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) / Civil Rights

• Access Board
• ADA.gov
• ADA Basics Web-course
• ADA Indiana
• ADA Library
• ADA Technical Assistance Network
• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Technical Assistance Program
• ADA Training
• Civil Rights·Org: a Social Justice Network
• Great Lakes ADA Center
• Law, Health Policy and Disability Center
• National Fair Housing Advocate Online
• Steve Gold's Nuggets
• US Office for Civil Rights

Arts/Culture

• Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts
• ART Thread
• Association of Performing Arts Presenters
• Association of Science and Technology Centers (museums)
• Disability Arts and Culture
• Arts Work Indiana
• VSA Arts of Indiana
• Folk Art Society of America
• Hands On
• Indiana Arts Commission
• International Center on Deafness and the Arts
• Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
• National Arts and Disability Center (NADC)
• National Captioning Institute
• Resources for Artist with Disabilities
• VSA Arts National
• VSA Arts of Indiana

Assistive Technology

• ABLEDATA database on assistive technology
• Alliance for Technology Access
• Assistive Technology Training Online
• AssistiveTec. NET National Database
• Equal Access to Software and Information
• Family Center on Assistive Technology
• Family Guide to Assistive Technology
• Finding the Money
• INDATA (Indiana Assistive Technology Act) Project
• Information Technology Technical Assistance and Training Center (ITTATC)
• PATINS Project (Education AT)
• Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA)
• Trace Center (Telecommunications and Electronic Access)
• Web Accessibility Resources

Children and Youth

• Association for Successful Parenting (with disabilities)
• Autism Café
• Council for Exceptional Children
• Family Voices : families with Special Health Care Needs
• Hands and Voices (Families of Deaf/Hard of Hearing Children)
• Through the Looking Glass / Parents with Disabilities
• Birth Injury Guide
• Kids as Self Advocates (KASA)
• Zero to Three

Community Inclusion / Housing and Livability

• Asset Based Community Development
• Becoming a Home Owner (Indiana)
• Better Together
• Build a Better Block
• Communities for a Lifetime
• Concrete Change
• Guerrila Gardening
• Habitat for Humanity Indiana
• Institute on Communication and Inclusion
• Inclusion Research Institute
• Indiana Housing Now (Affordable Rental)
• Indiana Main Streets Initiative
• Indiana Public Housing Authorities
• Institute for Community Inclusion
• Little Free Libraries
• Neighborlink Indiana
• Partners for a Livable Community
• Reconnecting Those in Isolation
• Regular Lives: interviews with Kathy Snow of Diability is Natural
• Serve Indiana (Service and Volunteerism)
• Social Capitol and People with Disabilities
• Smart Growth USA
• Stellar Communities in Indiana
• Tactical Urbanism: Short Term Action/Long Term Change
• Tools for Action: 99 Ideas for Positive Change

Data / Statistics

• Annual Disability Statistics Compendium
• Disability Counts
• Disability Data
• Disability Tablets/Statistics
• Health Rankings
• Indiana Statistics
• Labor Statistics
• US Census Bureau

Disability Rights Organizations

• ADAPT : Disability Rights Activists
• American Association for People with Disabilities (AAPD)
• Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
• Commission on Disability Rights (American Bar Association)
• Diablity Rights Education and Defense Fund, Inc. (DREDF)
• Kids as Self Advocates (KASA)
• Mind Freedom
• National Disability Rights Network
• Self Advocates Becoming Empowered
• World Association of People with Disabilities
• World Institute on Disability

Education (K-Post Secondary)

• Assistive Technology and Special Education Resources
• Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD)
• Center for Universal Design in Education
• Center for Parent Information and Resources
• College Resources for Disabled Students
• DO-IT higher education and employment
• DOE-IDEA resources
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education
• HEALTH Resource Center (national clearighouse on postsecondary education)
• Indiana Center on Education and Lifelong Learning
• Indiana Secondary Transition Resource Center
• Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Resources (IDEA)
• Learning Disabilities On Line
• National Center on Secondary Education and Transition
• National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities (NICHCY)
• Office of Special Education Program Publications
• Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights (PACER)
• Special Education Advocacy Institute
• Special Education Guide
• Wrights Law; Special Education and Advocacy

Employment/Income

• Association of People in Supported Employment (APSE)
• Disability Benefits and Work
• Employment Laws and Regulations
• Guide to Self Employment
• Hoosiers Ready to Work (how work affects benefits)
• Hire Heroes USA
• Indiana Asset Development and Financial Literacy
• Indiana Association of People in Supported Employment
• Indiana Business Leadership Network
• Indiana Employment First Initiative
• Indiana Vocational Rehabilitation Services
• Job Accommodation Network (JAN)
• Job Doozy ( Job Postings for Hoosiers with Disabilities)
• Medicaid Works (for employed people with disabilities)
• Office of Disability Employment Policy (DOL)
• Small Business and Self Employment Service
• Real People Real Jobs
• Social Security Benefits and People with Disabilities
• Social Security Work Incentives (PASS Plans)
• Ticket to Work
• USA Jobs Resource Center
• U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• U.S Office of Disability Employment Policy

Government / Federal

• ADA·Gov
• Administration for Community Living US
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
• Congress•Gov (Federal legislation and process)
• Disability•Gov (Federal Programs and links)
• Department of Justice
• U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• Federal Register On-line
• GPO Access (info on Federal Gov)
• Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services (OSERS)
• Social Security Online
• U.S. House Directory
• U.S. Senate Directory
• White House

Government- Indiana

• Bills and Summaries
• Civil Rights Commission
• Department of Health
• Disability and Rehabilitation Services (FSSA)
• Family and Social Services Administration
• First Step Early Intervention for Infants and Toddlers
• FSSA Organizational Directory
• General Assembly
• Governor’s Office
• Housing & Community Development Authority (IHCDA)
• IndianaVoters.com
• Office of Special Education (DOE)
• Search the Indiana Code
• Secretary of State (Voting/elections)
• State Agency Directory-Find a Person

Grants /Fundraising

• Fundraising programs
• Grant Writing Guide for Writing a Funding Proposal
• Grants * Gov (National)
• Grant Funding Opportunities for Families/ Professionals
• Grant Funding: Indiana
• Grant Writing On-line Training
• Grant Writing Guide for Non-profits
• Proposal Writing Resources
• Requests for Proposal –Foundations
• Tips for Searching for Funding Sources
• Foundation Center
• Indiana Funding Sources for Grants

Health / Long Term Care

• American Association on Health and Disability
• Affordable Care Act
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Center for Medicare Advocacy
• Commit to Inclusion Implementation Guide
• Council on Quality and Leadership
• Covering Kids and Families (CKF)
• Disaster & Emergency Preparedness for Special Populations
• Families USA Health and Longterm Care
• Health Information Privacy Rights
• Health and Long Term Care Policy: National Council on Disability
• Health and Wellness Families and Children
• Healthy Indiana Plan(low income adults)
• Indiana Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics
• Indiana Medicaid
• Indiana Medicare Patrol (fraud and education)
• Kaiser Family Foundation on Health Policy
• Living Healthy ( People with Disabilities)
• Medicare Rights Center
• National Center on Physical Activity and Disability
• National Health Law Project
• Women with Disabilities-Health Research

History / Awareness

• American Eugenics Movement
• Beyond Affliction: The Disability History Project
• Disability Awareness Resources
• Disability History Museum & Learning Resource Center
• Disability Social History Project
• History of “Idiocy” (International)
• History of 504:
• Indiana Disability Awareness Resources
• Indiana Voices
• Museum of the Person (Indiana)
• Parallels in Time: A History of Developmental Disabilities
• Smithsonian-Virtual Disability Rights Movement
• The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
• The Museum of disABILITY History

Independent Living

• Association of Programs for Rural Independent Living ( APRIL)
• Dimenet Virtual
• Independent Living Research Utilization
• Indiana Independent Living Centers
• Indiana Council on Independent Living
• National Council on Independent Living
• Research and Training Center on Independent Living

Indiana Statewide Organizations

• About Special Kids
• Autism Society of Indiana
• Best Buddies Indiana
• Brain Injury Association of Indiana
• Breaking New Grounds Resource Center
• Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Education
• Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana
• Covering Kids and Families (CKF)
• Family to Family (Indiana Early Childhood Resources)
• Family Voices Indiana
• Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health
• Fifth Freedom (Disability Advocacy Coalition)
• Hands and Voices
• Indiana Association of Area Agencies on Aging
• Indiana Association of Rehabilitation Facilities
• Indiana Citizens Alliance for Transit
• Indiana Down Syndrome Foundation
• Indiana Institute on Disability and Community
• Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services
• Indiana Special Olympics
• Indiana Resource Center for Autism (IRCA)
• Indiana Resource Center for Families with Special Needs (INSOURCE)
• Mental Health America Indiana
• NAMI Indiana (Mental Health Consumers)
• Rural Transit Assistance Program
• Self Advocates of Indiana
• The Arc of Indiana

Media / Magazines

• Ability Magazine
• Center for an Accessible Society
• Disability World (international disability news)
• Disability Scoop (Developmental Disability News)
• Inclusion Daily Express
• Mouth Magazine
• National Center for Accessible Media
• Ragged Edge Magazine
• The Riot (Self Advocates)

National Disability Organizations

• American Association of People with Disabilities
• American Council of the Blind
• American Foundation for the Blind
• Association of University Centers on Disability
• Autism Society of America
• Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities
• National Association of Council's on Developmental Disabilities
• National Association of the Deaf (NAD)
• National Association of Public Transit Advocates
• National Center on Learning Disabilities
• National Council on Disability
• National Council on Independent Living
• National Disability Rights Network
• National Federation for the Blind
• Paralyzed Veterans of America
• President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities
• Self Advocates Becoming Empowered
• TASH International Advocacy Association
• The Arc of the United States
• United Cerebral Palsy
• United Spinal Association
• U.S. Easter Seals

Non Profit Resources

• Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (non partisan research/policy institute)
• Independent Sector/Non Profit Advocacy and Info
• Indiana Philanthropy Alliance
• Management Training on-line (Free)
• National Center for Charitable Statistics
• Non-Profit Management Library
• Principles for Good Governance and Ethical Practice

Sports

• American Association of Adapted Sports
• Disabled Sports USA
• Inclusive Martial Arts Academy
• League of Miracles Indiana
• National Alliance for Accessible Golf
• National Sports Center for the Disabled
• Special Olympics National
• Special Olympics Indiana
• US Paralympics

Travel /Recreation

• Accessible Journeys
• Accessible Travel Source
• Disability Travel and Recreation Resources
• Flying with a Disability
• National Center on Accessibility (Recreation and Parks)
• Indiana Recreation Guide

Voting

• Hoosiers Vote (Indiana Disability Rights)
• Indiana Institute on Disability and Community Voting Guide
• Secretary of State (Voting/elections)
• Voting Guide for Hoosiers with Disabilities

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