Links:

1. Community Links

2. Press Coverage

Community Links:

• The Boston Center for Independent Living

The Boston Center for Independent Living is a private nonprofit organization, which is controlled and directed by persons with disabilities.  We empower others and ourselves with disabilities to advocate and take control over our lives, and become active members of the communities in which we live.  As a center, we work to promote the civil rights of all people with disabilities and to respond to the needs of persons with many different disabilities.

http://www.bostoncil.org/

• D.E.A.F., Inc.

D.E.A.F., Inc. encourages and empowers Deaf and Hard of Hearing individuals to lead independent and productive lives.  D.E.A.F., Inc. offers a comprehensive package of programs and services in a supportive community environment that is linguistically and culturally accessible for Deaf and Hard of Hearing individuals from diverse ethnic and cultural populations.

http://www.deafinconline.org/

• The Disability Law Center

The Disability Law Center (DLC) is the Protection and Advocacy agency for Massachusetts.  DLC is a private, non-profit organization responsible for providing protection and advocacy for the rights of Massachusetts residents with disabilities. DLC receives federal, state and private funding but is not part of the state or federal government.  DLC’s mission is to provide legal advocacy on disability issues that promote the fundamental rights of all people with disabilities to participate fully and equally in the social and economic life of Massachusetts.

http://www.dlc-ma.org/

•  The Institute for Community Inclusion

The Institute for Community Inclusion supports the rights of children and adults with disabilities to participate in all aspects of the community. As practitioners, researchers, and teachers, we form partnerships with individuals, families, and communities. Together we advocate for personal choice, self-determination, and social and economic justice.

http://www.communityinclusion.org/

• The Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

More than 500,000 Deaf, late-deafened, and hard of hearing people live, work, and play in Massachusetts. MCDHH’s mission is to ensure Communication Access at all levels of state government and in the private sector to enable productive participation for all.

http://www.mass.gov/mcdhh/

• The Massachusetts Office on Disability

The Massachusetts Office on Disability (MOD) was created in 1981, by M.G.L. c. 6, sec. 185, as the state advocacy agency that serves people with disabilities of all ages.  MOD's primary mission is to ensure access!

http://www.mass.gov/mod/

•  The RIDE Advocacy Project

The RIDE Advocacy Project (RAP) is a grassroots community-organizing effort aimed at bringing THE RIDE, the MBTA's paratransit service for people with disabilities, into compliance with Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act. RAP members, most of whom have disabilities or chronic illness themselves, are deeply concerned about the poor quality of RIDE service and its negative impact on RIDE users. We are committed to bringing about improvements in RIDE service by building alliances within the larger disability community, as well as among health care and service providers, and together holding the MBTA and its vendors accountable for providing safe, reliable, accessible service to all eligible riders. 

 

Contact RAP from 9-5 at (617) 277-0080 (messages only).

http://www.rideadvocacy.org

 

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Press Coverage:

The efforts of the Daniels-Finegold litigation team and its allies have been covered by the following news stories. 

2007

·        The Boston Globe: Getting accessibility back on track, June 6, 2007. 

2006

·        Associated Press on Boston.com: MBTA to upgrade accessibility for disabled riders, April 4, 2006

·        The Boston Globe: T agrees to spend $310m on accessibility, April 4, 2006

·        The Patriot Ledger:  MBTA upgrades will benefit everyone,  April 8, 2006. 

2005

·        The Boston Globe: Boston can be one rough ride as city reassesses its 1992 access plan, the MBTA faces charge it broke law, April, 4, 2005.