The Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities is a Coalition of national consumer, advocacy, provider and professional organizations headquartered in Washington, D.C. Since 1973, the CCD has advocated on behalf of people of all ages with physical and mental disabilities and their families. CCD has worked to achieve federal legislation and regulations that assure that the 54 million children and adults with disabilities are fully integrated into the mainstream of society.
CCD does this by:
- Identifying and researching public policy issues, developing testimony and policy recommendations and encouraging innovative solutions to public policy concerns.
- Educating members of Congress in an effort to improve public policies and programs that foster independence, productivity, integration and inclusion of people with disabilities.
- Encouraging people with disabilities and their families to advocate for themselves and coordinating grass roots efforts to support these advocacy efforts.
Vision
The Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) envisions an American society in which all individuals, aided by an enabling government, have the freedom and opportunity to exercise individual decisions concerning their own lives, welfare and personal dignity.
CCD envisions a society in which communities are fully accessible to all individuals with disabilities and their families, where they are included and fully participate in all aspects of community life.
In CCD's vision of society, individuals with disabilities exercise their full rights and responsibilities.
Mission
To achieve this vision the CCD engages in advocacy efforts for national public policy that:
- Ensure the self-determination, independence, empowerment, integration and inclusion of children and adults with disabilities in all aspects of society
- Enhance the civil rights and quality of life of all people with disabilities and their families
- Reflect the values of the Americans with Disabilities Act
| Position: | Name (Organization) |
| Chairperson | Marty Ford (The Arc and United Cerebral Palsy) |
| Vice Chairman | Donna Meltzer (Epilepsy Foundation) |
| Secretary | Katy Neas (Easter Seals) |
| Treasurer | Ethel Zelenske (National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives) |
| At-Large | Julio Abreu (Mental Health America) |
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Day Al-Mohamed (American Psychological Association)
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| Sharon McDonald (NAEH) | |
| Laura Kaloi (National Center for Learning Disabilities) | |
| Sharon McDonald (National Alliance to End Homelessness) | |
| Kim Musheno (Association of University Centers on Disabilities) | |
| Andrew Sperling (National Alliance on Mental Illness) | |
Immediate Past Chairperson |
Curt Decker (National Disability Rights Network) |
| Emeritus Board Member | Paul Marchand (The Arc and United Cerebral Palsy) |
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