We work on behalf of people with disabilities to combat all forms of discrimination, abuse and neglect through monitoring, investigations and legal action.
We support people with disabilities of all ages in order to advance individual rights and create systems change that focuses on community integration and quality of life.
We provide people with disabilities the tools, resources and assistance that empower them to exercise maximum independence and self-determination.
Our community is under attack. We're not going anywhere.
For 48 years, we've been fighting for the civil rights of people with disabilities in Louisiana.
Today, we're facing some of the biggest challenges we've seen in decades: Massive Medicaid cuts. Weakening federal oversight of special education. Policies pushing people back into institutions.
We cannot sit by and watch people with disabilities lose healthcare, get excluded from schools, or be pushed back into institutions after we've fought so hard for their right to live in the community.
We know how to win. And we need you by our side.
Our own federal funding is at risk of being cut. This year-end, we're raising $15,000 to begin building the donor support we'll need as federal funding becomes uncertain. We're already halfway there.
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Stand with Louisiana's disability community in this critical moment.
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Join us in holding the line for the civil rights of people with disabilities in Louisiana. Since 1977, Disability Rights Louisiana has been fighting for the rights of people with disabilities across o...Our disability community is greatly saddened by the loss of Alice Wong, a groundbreaking activist and founder of the Disability Visibility Project, whose passing at 51 leaves an irreplaceable legacy in disability justice.
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Alice Wong, ‘luminary’ writer and disability rights activist, dies aged 51
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Daughter of immigrants advocated for people with disabilities to have full autonomy over their livesIt’s a beautiful day out at Oak Street Po-Boy Festival! We’re hosting an art market today in our parking lot at our office located at 8325 Oak St, in New Orleans. Come by our resource table and say hi! ... See MoreSee Less