Transcript of About Us (DRW) [audio description]: Disability Rights Washington staff and community members at various locations. - There are over 900,000 people with disabilities in Washington state. - We want to work. - We want the ability to go to dinner with our friends. - We want access to healthcare. - To affordable and accessible housing. - To be able to get where we need to go. - Disability Rights Washington is the sole advocacy agency in the state of Washington dedicated to serving people who have all kinds of disabilities. - We advocate using the law. - Public policy. - Video and social media. - And community organizing. - We're people with disabilities. - Investigators. - Filmmakers and storytellers. - Attorneys and organizers. - There is a little-known federal law that allows DRW to go anywhere that people with disabilities are. - That includes hospitals, nursing homes, even jails and prisons. - This means, we reach people who can't just come to us. - This power to go wherever people with disabilities are, helps us stop abuse and serious civil and human rights violations. - We provide individualized rights information and self-advocacy tips, so that people with disabilities, and our families, can advocate for our own rights. - We create system wide changes to improve access to services. - We help individuals resolve their own issues. - We educate public policy makers on the impact of laws of people with disabilities. - And train people with disabilities to advocate in the legislature. - We tell authentic, accessible stories. - And redefine narratives around disability, mental health, and chronic illness. - We are litigating. - Organizing. - Educating. - And dreaming. - To make a more accessible future. - Join us. - Join us. - Join us. - And co-create a world where we can all be included. [NARRATOR]: Disability Rights Washington. End of Transcript.
Transcript of About Us (DRW)
[audio description]: Disability Rights Washington staff
and community members
at various locations.
- There are over 900,000
people with disabilities
in Washington state.
- We want to work.
- We want the ability to go
to dinner with our friends.
- We want access to healthcare.
- To affordable and accessible housing.
- To be able to get where we need to go.
- Disability Rights Washington
is the sole advocacy agency
in the state of Washington
dedicated to serving people
who have all kinds of disabilities.
- We advocate using the law.
- Public policy.
- Video and social media.
- And community organizing.
- We're people with disabilities.
- Investigators.
- Filmmakers and storytellers.
- Attorneys and organizers.
- There is a little-known
federal law that allows DRW
to go anywhere that people
with disabilities are.
- That includes hospitals, nursing homes,
even jails and prisons.
- This means, we reach people
who can't just come to us.
- This power to go wherever
people with disabilities are,
helps us stop abuse
and serious civil and
human rights violations.
- We provide individualized
rights information
and self-advocacy tips,
so that people with disabilities,
and our families,
can advocate for our own rights.
- We create system wide changes
to improve access to services.
- We help individuals
resolve their own issues.
- We educate public policy makers
on the impact of laws of
people with disabilities.
- And train people with disabilities
to advocate in the legislature.
- We tell authentic, accessible stories.
- And redefine narratives
around disability, mental health,
and chronic illness.
- We are litigating.
- Organizing.
- Educating.
- And dreaming.
- To make a more accessible future.
- Join us.
- Join us.
- Join us.
- And co-create a world
where we can all be included.
[NARRATOR]: Disability Rights Washington.
End of Transcript.