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Disability Rights California’s Peer Self-Advocacy (PSA) Program advocates for and oversees the California Memorial Project (CMP). The CMP’s mission is to honor and restore dignity to individuals with mental health and developmental disabilities who lived and died in California state institutions.

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We’d like your input as we review and revise the priorities of our work for 2023. 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.”

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Governor Newsom released his 2023-24 proposed budget on January 10, 2023 (https://ebudget.ca.gov/budget/2023-24/#/BudgetSummary). The Governor’s Budget proposes $296.9 billion in total spending. In contrast to recent years where California enjoyed large budget surpluses, this year’s budget projects a $22.5 billion deficit, which the Governor proposes to address primarily with delays in some funding. The Governor stressed the State’s robust reserves to provide readiness for an economic downturn.

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Ending sexual violence is inextricably linked to disability justice, sex workers rights, gender self-determination, queer and trans liberation and the prison industrial complex.

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This explainer has information about Porterville Developmental Center and what it’s like for the people who live there. It also includes statistics about the race and ethnicity of Porterville residents, their length of stay, and troubling data about how often and for how long DDS staff at Porterville put people in manual and mechanical restraints.

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This policy brief makes the case for community-led solutions to address longstanding racial and ethnic disparities in California’s regional center system and offers four key strategies to make the system more equitable for disabled people of color.

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When Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the CARE Act into law in September, he set the clock on seven counties to have the program with its signature courts up and running by Oct. 1, 2023. The graduated rollout gives the rest of the state, including Los Angeles County, until December 2024, but the Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment Act has already been hailed as a fix for the state’s broken behavioral health system, a road to recovery for those who are severely mentally ill.

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This policy brief makes the case for community-led solutions to address longstanding racial and ethnic disparities in California’s regional center system and offers four key strategies to make the system more equitable for disabled people of color.

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This fact sheet provides information about Supplemental Security Income (SSI) overpayments: what they are, what can cause them, who is responsible for them, and what your options are if you have an SSI overpayment. This fact sheet does not address overpayments of other kinds of Social Security benefits, such as Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI).

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Governor Gavin Newsom has signed the California budget for 2023. The 2022-23 budget includes total spending of over $300 billion with a focus on schools, addressing climate change and wildfires, and providing relief to low-income families and individuals. A summary of the enacted budget can be found at https://www.ebudget.ca.gov/FullBudgetSummary.pdf

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