Members of the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities address a broad range of federal legislative and legal issues. Click individual task force names to jump to their page to get detailed information including their mission, how to contact them, and a complete listing of announcements, articles, and reports.
The CCD Members page also contains links and contact information for each individual member organization.
Child Abuse
Developmental Disabilities
- Developmental Disabilities (Planning) Councils
- Protection and Advocacy
- University Affiliated Programs
- Reauthorization of the Developmental Disabilities Act
- Quality Assurance
- Family Support
Education
- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
- IDEA regulations
- Elementary and Secondary Education Act
- Education funding
- Family Support
Employment and Training
- Vocational Rehabilitation
- Supported Employment
- Work Incentives
- ADA Employment Issues
- Business Partnerships
- Workforce Investment
Fiscal Policy
- Federal Budget and Appropriations
- Tax Issues
Futures
- Social Events Planning
- Media Relations
Health
- Managed Care Consumer Protections (private insurance, Medicaid and Medicare) /Patient's Bill of Rights
- Medicare and Disability
- Medicaid and Disability
- Privacy and Confidentiality
- Non-discrimination and Health Care
- State Children's Health Insurance program (CHIP)
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Housing
- Critical shortage of affordable housing
- Public housing federal regulations
- Section 8/Public housing funding
- Section 811 Supportive Housing
- Local and municipal planning
- Fair Housing
International
- Ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Long Term Services & Supports
- Medicaid-funded long term services
- Home and community based care
- Quality assurance
- Intermediate Care Facilities/Mental Retardation (ICF/MR)
- Personal assistance services and supports
- Community Attendant Services and Supports Act (MiCASSA)
Prevention
- Early Intervention
- Prenatal, Perinatal and Postnatal Care
- Disability Prevention Research
- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prevention
- Prevention Education
Rights
- Protection and Advocacy
- Abuse and Neglect Prevention
- Civil Rights
- Immigration and Naturalization
- Americans with Disabilities Act
- Air Carrier Access Act
- Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA)
- Fair Housing Act
- Rehabilitation Act (Sections 504, 503 and 508)
- National Voter Registration Act
Social Security
- Social Security Act
- Income Supports/Supplementary Security Income
- Social Security Work Incentives
- Welfare Reform
Work Incentives
- Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) and Disability
- Welfare-to-Work and Disability
- Ticket to Work and Workforce Investment Act
Technology/Telecommunications
- Access to Telecommunications Products and Services
- Telecommunications Act
- Closed Captioning
- Gore Commission
- Access to Emergency Services
- Assistive Technology Act (ATA)
- Rehabilitation Act (Section 508)
- Americans with Disabilities Act
Transportation
- Americans with Disabilities Act
- Access to Public Transportation
- Paratransit
- Welfare-to-Work
- Air Carrier Access
