The People With Disabilities Foundation is a group dedicated to advocacy for the disabled, especially in legal matters. Here is a description from their Web site:
Our Mission is to provide education and advocacy for people with psychiatric and/or developmental disabilities, with or without physical disabilities, so that they can achieve equal opportunities in all aspects of life.
Our goal is to provide total integration of people with mental disabilities into the whole of society. PWDF is an IRS approved § 501(c)(3) public charity. Contributions are tax deductible.
Education / Public Awareness
PWDF puts on free public seminars examples of which include:
- Disabled students in elementary and secondary schools, coping skills and sensitivity training;
- Accommodating Students with Psychiatric Disabilities in Colleges and Universities;
- Health Care Issues for People with Mental and/or Developmental Disabilities (focus: Emergency Room Triage Issues); and
- Multiculturalism and Psychiatric Disabilities
- Guest speaking.
- Social Security Work Incentive Programs. Available in 1 hour CD. See the Online Store.
- Accommodating Employees and Job Applicants with Psychiatric Disabilities in the Workplace. Also in 30 minute training video. See the Online Store.
- Housing Issues for People with Psychiatric and Developmental Disabilities. Available in 1 hour CD. See the Online Store.
- “Understanding Employees and Job Applicants with Psychiatric Disabilities.” This training video focuses on medical and vocational aspects associated with invisible disabilities in the workplace, functional limitations and ways to provide reasonable accommodations, if necessary. See the Online Store.
Representation on ADA employment, Health Care, and other services as resources permit.
- Assistance for Medi-Cal based on disability.
- Brief services (consults) on Social Security, employment, health care and related matters.
- We have a sliding scale for attorney fees starting at $00.00 for those who cannot afford it. We turn down no client’s case so long as it has merit and sufficient evidence.
