Webinar: Explore Your Right to Safe Living Conditions
Webinar: Explore Your Right to Safe Living Conditions
Many people with mental health disabilities miss opportunities to have equal access because they do not know they have a right to safe living conditions. Join our webinar to learn more about your rights, self-advocacy skills and reporting processes that can benefit you as a person with a disability!
Explore Your Right to Safe Living Conditions
Join us for a Live Webinar
Many people with mental health disabilities miss opportunities to have equal access because they do not know they have a right to safe living conditions. Join our webinar to learn more about your rights, self-advocacy skills and reporting processes that can benefit you as a person with a disability!
*This training is presented from a peer perspective by people who have lived experience with mental disabilities.*
Live Caption and ASL Interpreter Available
When:
June 13, 2023
11:00 AM
Pacific Time
About the webinar:
This webinar will cover information about your right to safe living conditions. Safe living conditions are essential for mental health and overall wellbeing. You will also discover how rights, rules and regulations vary whether you rent a room in a house, live in a facility, reside in room and board or in a licensed board and care home.
Together we will explore the following:
- What is considered unsafe living conditions?
- How to request repairs for the unsafe living conditions?
- What Self Advocacy steps to take when living in unsafe conditions?
- What if I have to move due to unsafe living conditions?
Speaker:
Debi Davis, MSW, is a person with lived experience and a long-time mental health advocate. She volunteered for 10 years with Riverside County Patient Rights Office. For the past 13 years, Ms. Davis has worked in the Peer and Self-Advocacy unit of Disability Rights California, facilitating self-advocacy groups at a state hospital and facilities in the community.