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The Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities
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The Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities (CCD) is the largest coalition of national organizations working together to advocate for federal public policy that ensures the self-determination, independence, empowerment, integration and inclusion of children and adults with disabilities in all aspects of society.
 
WHAT'S NEW AT CCD?
Aging Disability Sign-on for Reconciliation House Floor Vote
The undersigned 730 organizations who are members of the Disability and Aging Collaborative (DAC), the Health and Long Term Services and Supports Task Forces of the Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities (CCD), and allied organizations write with grave concern about the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” because of the harmful cuts and changes to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that will result in at least 13.7 million people having their coverage taken away, including millions of people with disabilities and older adults.
(May 20,  2025) - Download [ PDF ]
Education Task Force
CCD ED TF Statement on House Budget Bills
Washington, DC- This week, the House Ways & Means Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Committee have proposed budget reconciliation bills that include provisions harmful to children with disabilities. Specifically, the House Ways & Means bill includes a $20 billion proposal diverting public funds to private schools via the Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA) which CCD has opposed.
(May 14,  2025) - Download [ PDF ]
Financial Security and Poverty Ad Hoc Task Force
CCD FSP SNAP Reconciliation
The undersigned members of the Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities (CCD) Financial Security and Poverty Task Force write to express our grave concern with proposals under consideration for inclusion in budget reconciliation that would cut funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
(May 13,  2025) - Download [ PDF ]
Long Term Services and Supports Task Force
CCD DAC Cochairs Letter on additional Medicaid Cuts in EC Reconciliation
On behalf of the undersigned co-chairs of the Long Term Services and Supports and Health Task Forces of the Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities (CCD) and the Disability and Aging Collaborative (DAC), we urge you to reject cuts to the Medicaid program that would threaten the health and well-being of millions of people with disabilities and older adults.
(May 12,  2025) - Download [ PDF ]
Transportation Task Force
Comment on the DOT Regulatory Reform RFI
The undersigned co-chairs of the Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities (CCD) Transportation Task Force submit these comments on the proposed questions regarding existing transportation regulations and guidance in response
(May 5,  2025) - Download [ PDF ]
Housing Task Force
CCD 2025 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Revisions, Interim Final Rule, FR-6519-I-01
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Revisions” Interim Final Rule (2025 AFFH IFR). The undersigned are members of the Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities (CCD) Housing Task Force.
(May 2,  2025) - Download [ PDF ]
Housing Task Force
CCD FY26 Appropriations Letter for Critical Housing Programs for Adults with Disabilities
On behalf of the Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities (CCD) Housing Task Force, we write to urge your leadership to secure essential Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 funding for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Section 811 and Mainstream/Non-Elderly Disabled (NED) Voucher programs, as well as fair housing enforcement programs.
(April 30,  2025) - Download [ PDF ]
Education Task Force
CCD Education Appropriations FY 26
As you draft the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Labor, HHS, Education, and Related Services appropriations bill, the Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities (CCD) Education Task Force urges you to provide robust funding for the federal programs that support infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities, their families, and the educators and other service providers who serve them while avoiding cuts to other education programs.
(April 21,  2025) - Download [ PDF ]
Developmental Disabilities, Autism and Family Support Task Force
CCD DD Autism FS TF FY26 Appropriations
On behalf of the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities Developmental Disabilities, Autism and Family Supports Task Force (Task Force) and undersigned organizations, we write to urge adequate Fiscal Year 2026 funding for programs authorized by the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (DD Act), Assistive Technology Act, Autism CARES Act, the Lifespan Respite Care Act, and Kevin and Avonte’s Law, the National Family Caregiver Support Program and Parent Information Centers, and the Transition Programs for Students with Intellectual Disability (TPSID) Model Demonstrations, National Coordination Center and National Technical Assistance and Dissemination Center.
(April 15,  2025) - Download [ PDF ]
Education Task Force
CCD Letter NO to dismantle move IDEA to HHS
The Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities (CCD) is writing to implore that you take no action—through appropriations or authorizing statutes—to weaken or dismantle the U.S. Department of Education (Department).
(April 4,  2025) - Download [ PDF ]
CCD Co-Chair Statement on the HHS RIF and Dismantling of ACL
The Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities (CCD) is the largest coalition of national organizations working together to advocate for federal public policy that ensures the self-determination, independence, empowerment, integration, and inclusion of children and adults with disabilities in all aspects of society.
(March 28,  2025) - Download [ PDF ]
CCD Co Chair Letter on EO to Close Department of Education
The U.S. Department of Education (“the Department”) is a critical federal agency for students with disabilities. The Department oversees the implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) – which serves more than 8 million children, youth and young adults – and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504)
(March 20,  2025) - Download [ PDF ]
 
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  TASK FORCES
Members of the Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities advocate for a broad range of federal public policy that ensures the self-determination, independence, empowerment, integration and inclusion of children and adults with disabilities in all aspects of society. CCD’s public policy work is carried out by task forces. Click on the links below to get information on the activities of any individual task force or to contact co-chairs by email.

CCD also has Ad Hoc Task Forces that focus on federal policy but meet on a less frequent basis than official Task Forces and Working Groups that focus on both internal practices for CCD as a coalition and policy.

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