In 2021, CPWD created a staff-inspired IDEA Committee (Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity in Action). The mission of CPWD’s IDEA Committee is to foster a culture that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion while actively challenging and dismantling systemic racism...

While the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964, preventing labor discrimination based on race, religion, gender, or nationality, it wasn’t until 1972-73 that Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act was drafted. This was the first significant piece of modern legislation concerning people with disabilities.

In July, CPWD staff participated in and spearheaded an International Conference on disabilities in Armenia. The conference was also supported by the European Union, the Armenian Association of Social Workers, and included a partnership with Unison, the only Armenian...

We’ve got some amazing things happening in our Beyond Vision Program. Right now, people with visual impairment and blindness are getting white cane and other Orientation and Mobility (O & M) training so they can stay independent and live full lives in our...

The Obama Administration has always said that they support ADAPT’s goals for Olmstead, community integration and to end the Medicaid institutional bias; but activists say this meeting on the Community Integration Act is a turning point in the President saying he...