Statement of Priorities

PRIORITY EIGHT (continued):

E. HOUSING AND COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES
1. Represent persons who remain in hospitals, nursing homes, or other restrictive environments due to a shortage of community alternatives.
2. Represent persons denied home- and community-based services due to the state’s determination of ineligibility based on nature or severity of disabilityor to lack of resources when such denial significantly impacts the person’s liberty and autonomy.
Represent persons denied reasonable accommodations, or otherwise discriminated against, in housing.

F. GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS
1. Represent persons denied physical accessibility, policy modifications, or auxiliary communication aids and services by state or local governments.
2. Represent persons denied physical accessibility, policy modifications, or auxiliary communication aids and services by public or private schools, colleges and universities.
3. Represent persons denied physical accessibility, policy modifications, or auxiliary communication aids and services by health care providers.
4. Represent persons denied full participation in the electoral process.

G. CRIMINAL JUSTICE
1. Represent persons discriminated against in the provision of mental health treatment in correctional facilities.
2. Represent persons denied equal access to services in correctional facilities.

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