We Want to Hear From You - 2026 Disability Rights California Survey

We’d like your input as we review and revise the priorities of our work for 2026. You can tell us what is important by answering the questions below. If you need help, please call us at (800) 776-5746 and say, “I need help with your survey.”

We’re planning our work for 2026, and we want to hear from you! Your answers to the questions below will help us understand what matters most and how we can focus our work.

If you need help with the survey, please call (800) 776-5746 and say, “I need help with your survey.”

If you want to give us input, please finish the survey by June 7, 2026.

We also ask some optional questions about your race, ethnicity, age, sex, and sexual orientation. This helps us learn who uses our services and how we can better serve everyone. You can choose to answer these questions, or you can skip any you don’t want to answer.

Here is a link to our proposed goals for next year!

Click here to view this survey in ASL.

Survey

Age

Race/Ethnicity

Gender

Sexual Orientation

What is your disability?

What Would You Like to Tell Us About? (select all that apply)

Learning and Self-Advocacy

Rights, Access, and Fair Treatment

Health Care and Community Services

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Facilities and Institutions

Mental Health

Employment

Voting and Civic Participation

School Supports

Learning and Self-Advocacy

What skills do you need to help you speak up for yourself?

What situations make it hard to advocate for yourself?

What tools or supports help you understand your rights or say what you need?

If we cannot represent you, what other services would be helpful?

Rights, Access, and Fair Treatment

What is the biggest problem you have getting housing?

What is the biggest problem you have using transportation?

What is the biggest problem you have using other things (like public places?)

How do you want to solve those problems?

Where do you see the most discrimination?

Health Care and Community Services

What health or support services do you have trouble getting?

What equipment, technology, or accommodations do you need to get healthcare?

What would make appointments or service systems easier to find your way through?

Intellectual & Developmental Disability Supports

What services from the regional center or other agencies are most important to you?

What choices or decisions do you want more control over?

What help do you need to make decisions on your own?

Facilities and Institutions

If you live in a facility, what do you want to tell us?

What supports or practices help you feel respected and heard?

Mental Health

Have you been able to get mental health services?

Where do you get your mental health services?

What makes it easier or harder to get mental health services?

How would you like to be supported when making decisions about your care?

Employment

Are you a Department of Rehabilitation client?

If not, do you know about the Department of Rehabilitation?

What kind of job or work environment are you interested in?

What makes it hard to find or keep a job?

What training or support would help you reach your work goals?

Voting and Civic Participation

What support would help you vote?

What makes it hard to vote?

School Supports

What support do you or your child need to succeed at school?

What situations make school hard for you or your child?

Final Questions:

What goals are most important for you to work on this year? Why?

Is there anything we didn’t ask that you want us to know that will help us provide better services?