Our vision statement: People with disabilities enjoy equality, dignity, power, freedom of choice, independence

Collaborative Projects

NEW - Our new Collaborative Projects Brochure (pdf) (rtf) (December 2010, English, 2 pages, publication #5492.01)

What does Collaborative Projects do?

Collaborative Projects helps people with disabilities develop statewide or local advocacy projects. These projects create opportunities for people with disabilities to assume leadership roles in promoting their rights and work collaboratively across disability communities.

Collaborative Projects provides technical assistance, leadership, training, and guidance to local disability-run groups to develop and implement projects. This may include providing training and developing training materials so people can become involved in their communities on issues of importance to them.

Supporting civic participation by Californians with disabilities

(From the 2009 Annual Report )

Our collaborative projects staff, based in Sacramento, has been successful this year in involving more Californians with disabilities in civic issues, such as taking an active part in poll monitoring in Los Angeles County during the historic 2008 election; and assisting disability organizations in El Dorado County to identify community issues they find important. The response has been enthusiastic and some results are:

  • A follow-up poll monitoring project was conducted in the May 2009 election;
  • Several poll sites were evaluated for accessibility and at least two inaccessible sites will no longer be used;
  • Agreement was reached to implement measures to ensure that all polling sites in the county are accessible; and
  • The El Dorado groups identified housing and public transportation as issues to work on and self-advocacy training is scheduled for Spring 2010.