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  • Опубліковано 29 жов 2024

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    [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.