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2023-02-01
Disability & Philanthropy Forum;
One in four adult Americans and an estimated 1 billion people globally experience disability, but foundation funding for disability only represents approximately two cents of every foundation dollar awarded.Foundation Giving for Disability: Priorities and Trends offers a first-ever, detailed examination of how U.S. foundations focus their support for disability communities. It serves as a resource for understanding the scale and priorities of current support and provides a baseline for measuring changes in funding going forward.
2023-05-25
Asset Funders Network;
More than 41 million people in the United States (12.7% of the population) have disabilities that affect their ability to work or engage in major life activities. Helping this population achieve economic security, build assets, and achieve economic mobility—by removing systemic barriers, shifting discriminatory attitudes, and providing needed tools—is a core part of an economic justice agenda.
2023-05-09
New York Women's Foundation;
This landscape analysis focuses on existing and emerging disability justice and inclusion efforts at the intersections of gender and racial justice across New York City and State, and areas for funding that would support the work of disability justice leaders and advocates.In alignment with The Foundation's mission and values, the final report of findings includes an overview of organizations leading this critical work, a spotlight on community-based leadership moving this agenda forward, and information on emerging groups supporting gender and economic equity by and for people with disabilities.
2023-07-16
Our Collective Practice;
Stories of Girls' Resistance is the largest ever collection of oral and narrative history of adolescent girls' activism, offering a window into girls' lives and their resistance in all of its messiness, pain, and power. Held by Our Collective Practice, the initiative is a multi-year, multi-site project spanning regions, organisations and offerings with over 100 contributors and co-conspirators.Â
2023-10-11
Urban Institute;
In this brief, we used December 2022 data from a nationally representative survey of adults ages 18 to 64 to examine rates at which adults with and without disabilities reported they were treated or judged unfairly in the past year in three settings: at doctors' offices, clinics, or hospitals; at work; and when applying for public benefits. We also examined the impact of such treatment on their well-being.Despite important federal antidiscrimination protections, people with disabilities experience unfair treatment in health care settings, workplaces, and when applying for public benefits. Understanding and addressing these experiences is necessary to ensure that people with disabilities have equitable access to health care, employment opportunities, and economic support essential for meeting basic needs.
2023-08-10
Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law;
This report examines early voting poll site accessibility in New York State during the 2022 election cycle, three years after the state enacted its early voting program. Data from in-person poll site accessibility surveys conducted by Disability Rights New York (DRNY) — the state's P&A system and coauthor of this report — and an online survey of early voters' experiences reveals that at least one early voting location in every surveyed county violated state and federal accessibility standards. Of the 179 early voting poll sites across the 57 surveyed counties — every county outside New York City — 169 (94 percent) were not fully accessible to voters with disabilities.
2023-07-19
Human Rights First;
Immigrants with disabilities face many barriers as they navigate deportation proceedings in U.S. immigration courts, where they must gather and submit evidence, testify, and present their case, often without a lawyer. These proceedings are adversarial, confusing, and terrifying for many immigrants, particularly people facing deportation to persecution or torture. As detailed in this report, the barriers that disabled immigrants face are exacerbated by a lack of resources and information about immigrants' rights under disability law in immigration court proceedings, absence of an established protocol for exercising those rights, denials of reasonable accommodations and safeguards to meaningfully participate in their proceedings, the use of detention to jail people during their immigration court cases, and disability discrimination in immigration court, including bias, stigma, and hostility from immigration judges. These barriers and harms violate federal disability law, Constitutional due process protections, and immigration law.
2024-02-14
New America;
This report examines, state by state, the policies that drive the use or eliminationof subminimum wage, as well as the programs each state provides to morecomprehensively support individuals with disabilities as they seek meaningfulemployment and fair wages. Analyzing and comparing policies across all statesallows for a national perspective on the drive to eliminate the subminimum wage.It also highlights other employment-related policies used to support individualswith disabilities. We hope our report not only provides an opportunity forstakeholders to dive into their own state's policies and practices but helps mapout best practices. Whether it is Maine or Mississippi, Oregon or Iowa, ouranalysis offers evidence of sweeping and often surprising progress. States aroundthe country, blue and red, rural and urban, are making significant headway inlasting ways, leading to an improved quality of life and competitive integratedemployment for disabled workers in the United States.
2024-03-14
Urban Institute;
In this brief, we examine challenges that adults with disabilities and members of their households face when trying to obtain home- and community-based services and other health care. Our analysis draws on nationally representative survey data and in-depth follow-up interviews with disabled adults who reported delaying or forgoing needed services.Many people with disabilities require home health care, personal assistance, physical or occupational therapy, medical equipment and supplies, and other home- and community-based services to live independently in their communities and meet complex medical needs. Despite shifts in public funding for long-term services and supports toward home and community settings over time, barriers to accessing home- and community-based services have persisted and worsened dramatically in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. These barriers intersect with and magnify other challenges people with disabilities face when navigating the health care system.We analyzed data on adults ages 18 to 64 who reported having disabilities in the December 2022 round of the Urban Institute's Well-Being and Basic Needs Survey. In May and June 2023, we conducted follow-up interviews with 25 survey participants who reported any delayed or unmet needs for selected home and community-based services. Members of a community advisory board with lived experience with disabilities and professional experience as disability advocates informed each stage of the research process.
2024-03-14
Urban Institute;
Using nationally representative survey data, we assessed the prevalence of delayed and unmet needs for medical equipment, supplies, and other vital services and supports among nonelderly adults with disabilities and members of their households. We also examined the types of equipment and supplies households had difficulty obtaining and the reasons for delayed or unmet needs.People with disabilities face persistent inequities in access to high-quality, affordable health care. These inequities include challenges obtaining consistent access to medical equipment and supplies and other health services and supports that are critical for their health and well-being and ability to live independently in their communities. Though people with disabilities of all ages are affected by these gaps in the health care system, nationally representative data on the experiences of adults under age 65 are limited.Our analysis draws on June 2022 data from the Urban Institute's Health Reform Monitoring Survey (HRMS), a nationally representative survey of adults ages 18 to 64 living in households. Survey questions on delayed and unmet needs were developed in collaboration with members of a community advisory board who have lived experience with disabilities and who serve as advocates for people with disabilities.
2022-04-26
California HealthCare Foundation;
Through CalAIM (California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal), a multiyear initiative to transform the Medi-Cal program, managed care plans now have the option to offer any of 14 Community Supports that provide person-centered services to address a variety of social drivers of health. Several of these Community Supports could help older adults and people with disabilities remain in their own homes, participate in their communities, and live independently in the setting of their choice.To support understanding and increased uptake of these services over time, this report provides an overview of and evidence summary for six Community Supports most relevant to supporting independent living for older adults and people with disabilities, including:Respite Services. Short-term services aimed at providing relief to caregivers of those who require occasional or temporary assistance or supervision.Nursing Facility Transition / Diversion to Assisted Living Facilities. Services that help people remain in the community by facilitating transitions from a nursing facility back into a home-like, community setting or prevent nursing facility admissions for those with imminent need.Community Transition Services / Nursing Facility Transition to a Home. Nonrecurring support, including setup expenses, to avoid further institutionalization and help people remain in the community as they return home from a licensed nursing facility.Personal Care and Homemaker Services. Supports for people needing assistance with daily activities, such as bathing, dressing, cooking, eating, and personal hygiene.Environmental Accessibility Adaptations (Home Modifications). Physical adaptations to a home when necessary to ensure health, welfare, and safety, or promote greater independence at home through improved functionality and mobility.Medically Supportive Food / Meals / Medically Tailored Meals. Meal services to help people achieve their nutritional goals at critical times (such as after a hospital or nursing facility stay) to regain and maintain their health.
2022-04-25
Urban Institute;
Immigrants with disabilities face multiple structural challenges, including discrimination, socioeconomic disadvantage, and barriers to safety net access. However, limited research discusses the prevalence of disability among nonelderly adult immigrants and the characteristics of this population. Drawing on five-year estimates from the 2015 to 2019 American Community Survey, this brief provides a snapshot of select characteristics of nonelderly immigrants with disabilities ages 18 to 64. Overall, 5.6 percent of nonelderly immigrants have a disability. Disaggregation by race and ethnicity shows us that this prevalence is highest among nonelderly Black Latinx immigrants at 10.2 percent and lowest for non-Latinx Asian immigrants at 4.2 percent. Other key findings are as follows:Roughly 1 in 3 (35.3 percent) immigrants with disabilities has limited English proficiency.About 3 in 10 (30.7 percent) immigrants with disabilities are from Mexico.Nearly half (49.3 percent) of nonelderly immigrants with disabilities report having low family incomes (under 200 percent of the family federal poverty level).About four in 10 (41.4 percent) immigrants with disabilities are employed. Three in 10 (30.0 percent) immigrants with disabilities are working in service occupations, such as janitors and building cleaners, housekeeping cleaners, and personal care aides.One in 8 (12.7 percent) immigrants with disabilities reported receiving Supplemental Security Income in the 12 months before the survey.Three in 10 (30.3 percent) noncitizens report being uninsured at the time of the survey, while 1 in 10 (9.5 percent) naturalized citizens report being uninsured.The results presented in this brief can inform efforts to improve the well-being of immigrants with disabilities through strategies such as increased access to government public services, improvements in job access and quality, and development of community models to promote disability inclusion.