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Policy and Civic Engagement

Promoting best practices in education, employment, entrepreneurship, civic engagement, and access.

Our Approach to Policy Advocacy

RespectAbility works across sectors and branches of government to promote state and federal policies that empower disabled people, especially those who are multiply marginalized.

  • As a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, we collaborate with diverse stakeholders to achieve our policy goals.
  • We partner with the disability community to identify and address urgent challenges.
  • We educate disabled people on the policies most relevant to their lives and how to advocate for themselves.

Our Policy Partners

RespectAbility advocates alongside the broader disability advocacy community at the federal level through the following coalitions and working groups:

  • Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities
  • Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology
  • National Coalition on Accessible Voting
  • Disabled Marriage Equality
  • Increasing Access for Voters with Disabilities

Our 2023-2024 Policy Priorities

  1. Eliminate barriers to work.
  2. Promote competitive, integrated employment.
  3. Support effective school-to-work transitions.
  4. Advance accessibility best practices across sectors.
  5. Empower disabled people to advocate for themselves.

Advancing these priorities in the current session, RespectAbility supports the following bills:

  • The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Savings Penalty Elimination Act
  • The Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act
  • The Communications, Video, and Technology Accessibility Act (CVTA)
  • The Accessible Voting Act (AVA)

Learn more about current legislation that RespectAbility supports.

When opportunities arise, RespectAbility also advocates to:

  • Eliminate subminimum wages and support effective transitions from segregated work to competitive, integrated employment
  • Support robust and individualized supported employment and vocational rehabilitation services
  • Create additional work incentives for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) recipients, including continued access to health care
  • Remove income and asset caps from Medicaid
  • Eliminate marriage penalties for SSI and Medicaid
  • Eliminate accessibility barriers to the voting process

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Contact Us

Mailing Address:
RespectAbility
43 Town & Country Drive
Suite 119-181
Fredericksburg, VA 22405

Office Number: 202-517-6272

Email: info@respectability.org

Operational Excellence

RespectAbility is recognized by GuideStar at the Platinum level, and has earned a Four-Star Rating from Charity Navigator.
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