Provide education and self-advocacy tools to Californians with disabilities to increase and advance their rights by:

1. Provide advocacy services to Californians with disabilities on legal issues impacting their communities.
2. Provide education, training, or other engagement activities on issues impacting disability communities.
3. Create, promote, or distribute self-advocacy materials.

Work in solidarity with disability communities, to create positive change by ending discrimination and preserving and advancing civil and human rights by:

1. Engage in ongoing advocacy to oppose the unnecessary institutionalization of people with disabilities.
2. Challenge disability discrimination by private and public entities and protect self-determination.
3. Protect and expand accessible, affordable, and/or integrated housing* for people with disabilities.
4. Increase the accessibility and safety of transportation systems and modes of travel
5. Ensure equal access to information in all places, including higher education, employment, public places, and other settings

Ensure Access to Healthcare and Home and Community-Based Services by:

1. Ensure access to healthcare and home and community-based services in the Medi-Cal system (includes IHSS for children and adults).
2. Protect and expand access to Medi-Cal services for children, including in the California Children’s Services (CCS) program and protect rights to services under Early and Periodic Screening Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT).
3. Increase access to necessary durable medical equipment (DME) and other technology which supports people with disabilities in their homes and communities.

Affirm the inherent right of intellectually and developmentally disabled people to live self-determined lives in, the community by:

1. Protect and advance the rights of people with I/DD to get services through California’s Lanterman Act and ensure those services are delivered in non-discriminatory ways.
2. Help people with I/DD get the quality regional center funded services they need in their homes and communities and fight to end California’s reliance on institutional settings.
3. Advance the rights of people with I/DD to have the autonomy and freedom to make their own life choices and protect those rights from being taken away.
4. Assist individuals, families, and their representatives to access services.

Ensure vigorous and meaningful oversight by the abuse response system and end abusive practices in facilities, programs and community settings by:

1. Investigate and address abuse and neglect of people with disabilities.
2. Improve adequacy and timeliness of abuse response system and oversight entities through advocacy and data tracking.
3. Investigate and address neglect and abusive conditions and practices in facilities.
4. Investigate and address excessive restraint* and seclusion in facilities and programs.
5. Investigate and address detention practices on people with significant mental illness and significant emotional impairment to ensure that these individuals do not experience abuse or neglect in congregate settings.
6. Collaborate with community groups and leaders to lead advocacy that addresses the root causes of abuse and neglect of people with disabilities, including stigma, unnecessary institutionalization, and lack of trauma-informed and person-centered, community-based services.
7. Provide accessible trainings to disability communities, professionals, and the public to further the goal of ending abusive practices and ensuring vigorous and meaningful oversight.

Decrease Stigma, Discrimination and Ensure Deinstitutionalization, and Community Integration by:

1. Advance freedom and justice by stopping or avoiding discriminatory and/or inhumane practices in locked facilities.
2. Advocate for access to trauma-informed and voluntary community-based services and supports for people with significant mental illness and fighting against discrimination and unnecessary institutionalization. 
3. Combat stigma and discrimination in public settings or by government entities or private businesses against people with significant mental illness. 
4. Advance autonomy, freedom, choice, informed consent, and self-determination for people with significant mental illness.
5. Collaborate with community groups and leaders to lead advocacy and education efforts on issues that impact people with significant mental illness. 
6. Provide education and advocacy materials to people with significant mental illness or other stakeholders.

Increase employment and access to employment services and supports for people with disabilities by:

1. Ensure services and systems to support competitive, integrated work and expand opportunities for people with disabilities. 
2. Increase employment of people with disabilities by addressing barriers to hiring and retention. 
3. Collaborate with community groups and leaders to advocate for supports that increase employment of people with disabilities
4. Empower people with disabilities, their families, and allies, through education about employment rights, accessing employment services and supports, and Social Security work incentive programs. 

Educate mental health peers with significant mental illness or significant emotional impairment, providers, and families about their rights, benefits, services and how to self- advocate for their expressed interest.

1. Provide education to people with significant mental illness or significant emotional impairment.
2. Train providers to recognize stigma, discrimination, and support expressed interest for those they serve and how to support the rights of those receiving the services.
3. Inform those who support mental health peers about the peers’ individual rights, personal autonomy, and expressed interest, in a variety of formats.
4. Collaborate with community peer groups and peer leaders to lead advocacy on issues that impact people with significant mental illness.
5. Work collaboratively within and outside of Disability Rights California to provide education to people with significant mental illness or significant emotional impairment.

Ensure that people with disabilities understand how to register to vote and that voter registration is accessible and easy for people with disabilities by:

1. Educate people with disabilities (including those under a conservatorship) and their stakeholders about voter registration.
2. Ensure that people with disabilities who are eligible to vote and who express a desire to vote (including those under a conservatorship) are able to register to vote.
3. Monitor compliance with voting rights requirements for people under conservatorship by courts, counties, and the State.
4. Monitor voter registration agencies and Secretary of State processes for compliance with the law and advocate for improvements to their processes.
5. Monitor the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to ensure automatic voter registration and accessibility.

Improve the voting experience of people with disabilities by ensuring that it is as accessible, private, and independent as possible by:

1. Maintain a voting hotline and represent voters with disabilities who experience barriers to voting.
2. Increase public awareness and the accessibility of Remote Accessible Vote-by Mail.
3. Ensure people with disabilities can vote privately and independently.
4. Train election workers, election worker trainers, and elections officials about disability access and disability etiquette.
5. Develop a stronger network of advocates with awareness of and sensitivity to disability-related voting issues.

Ensure that there are Safe, Universally Designed Schools by:

1. Ensure access to education and services that are designed to achieve better educational outcomes for students with disabilities.
2. Ensure the use of safe, restorative practices to support student behavior, in lieu of discipline, exclusion, restraint, seclusion, police contact, segregation, suspension, and expulsion.
3. Ensure schools that are designed for and meet the needs of disabled students.
4. Ensure access to technology, effective communication, language access and other necessary services students who can benefit from these services.