"Shared Knowledge and Information May Be Our Best Ability."

"Be an aggressive participant in your local and national advocacy organizations - from AAPD, LCCR, CCD, NCIL, ADAPT, DREDF, People First, psychiatric survivors and People for the American Way to your local independent living center, disability and civil rights coalitions. If you support them, they will support your advocacy for individualized empowerment." - Yoshiko Dart

Disabled World

Disabled-World.Com is an interactive website with subject areas covering up to date news and comprehensive research on everything from helpful tips to disabled sports articles. These features plus the ability for users to post their own articles directly to the site make Disabled World an exciting online community.

Articles posted by members from around the world range from sad to the witty and entertaining, such as travel adventures and the frustrating and sometimes humorous side of traveling with a disability.

National PTSD Information Center

The PTSD Information Center contains in-depth information on PTSD and traumatic stress for a general audience. Weanswer commonly asked questions about the effects of trauma, including basic information about PTSD and other common reactions.You can find out about treatment and coping or view videos to learn more.

The National MS Society

The National MS Society addresses the challenges of each person affected by MS by funding cutting edge research, drivingchange through advocacy, facilitating professional education, collaborating with MS organizations around the world, and providingprograms and services designed to help people with MS and their families move their lives forward.

The National Down Syndrome Society

The National Down Syndrome Society envisions a world in which all people with Down syndrome have the opportunity torealize their life aspirations. NDSS is committed to being the national leader in enhancing the quality of life, and realizing thepotential of all people with Down syndrome. The mission of the National Down Syndrome Society is to benefit people with Downsyndrome and their families through national leadership in education, research and advocacy.

Disabled Women on the Web

Disabled Women on the Web was established by Corbett O'Toole of theDisabled Women's Alliance to provide information, resources, and support forwomen with disabilities

The Ragged-Edge Online

Ragged Edge Online launched in January, 1997 --
back then we called the site "Electric Edge."

Bipolar World

Bipolar World is a privately owned site(s) and is operated strictly by volunteers.

Access Solutions

Access Solutions knows firsthand the need for specialized products and services.

civilrights.org

civilrights.org is a collaboration of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and theLeadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund.

The Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities

The Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities is a coalition of approximately 100national disability organizations working together to advocate for national public policythat ensures the self determination, independence, empowerment, integration and inclusionof children and adults with disabilities in all aspects of society.

The National Council on Independent Living

The National Council on Independent Living is the longest-running nationalcross-disability, grassroots organization run by and for people with disabilities.Founded in 1982, NCIL represents thousands of organizations and individuals including:Centers for Independent Living (CILs), Statewide Independent Living Councils (SILCs),individuals with disabilities, and other organizations that advocate for the human andcivil rights of people with disabilities throughout the United States.

ADAPT

There's no place like home; and we mean real homes, not nursing homes.We are fighting so people with disabilities can live in the community with real supportsinstead of being locked away in nursing homes and other institutions.

Disability Rights Education
and Defense Fund

The mission of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund is to advance thecivil and human rights of people with disabilities through legal advocacy, training,education, and public policy and legislative development.

People For the American Way

People For the American Way is an energetic advocate for the values and institutionsthat sustain a diverse democratic society. Many of these are now threatened by theinfluence of the radical right and its allies who have risen to positions of political power.Our most fundamental rights and freedoms - and even our basic constitutional framework - areat risk. People For the American Way works in close collaboration with other leadingnational and state progressive organizations to mobilize Americans at this defining momentin our history.

Shoshana - Psychiatric Survivor

"And so, in us there is anger-- anger born of cavalier malpractice and habitual abuse.Our voice is the voice of those who have been terribly harmed-- some beyond repair-- bythose who claim to "help." And there are more of us every day. That's the tragedy. But weneedn't lie back and take it forever, nor must we meet it with the deference andunquestioning acceptance that's expected. We can speak up, we can unite and strengtheneach other, and we can arm ourselves with knowledge-- the best weapon, and perhaps theonly one that can never be neutralized. We can recognize that we do not have to acceptbeing made less so that others can feel they are more. In the ongoing battle for our rightto survival and self-determination, we must recognize that when those who take an oathto "first, do no harm" are free to destroy at will, and when those approved andself-approving agencies that purport to speak in our name then turn and act againstus, we cannot affort to be re-victimized by our own passivity. And we must understandthe bottom line-- that we, ourselves alone, are the only ones truly concerned with ourown protection."

Mike - Psychiatric Survivor

Mike Lawson is a psychiatric survivor activist with over thirty years experience.A founder member of The Mental Patients Union in the mid 1970s and a founder member ofSurvivors Speak Out in the 1980s.

As Vice-Chair of National Mind from 1986-1992, he continued to fight for alternativesto psychiatry and recipient advocacy both nationally and internationally.

Well-known as a broadcaster and writer on mental health issues, he continues to promotethe authentic voice of individuals who find themselves at risk of psychiatry and the"mental health" trap.

The Epilepsy Foundation

The Epilepsy Foundation is the national voluntary agency solely dedicated to thewelfare of the more than 3 million people with epilepsy in the U.S. and their families.

The Spina Bifida Association

The Spina Bifida Association (SBA) serves adults and children who live with thechallenges of Spina Bifida. Since 1973, SBA has been the only national voluntary healthagency solely dedicated to enhancing the lives of those with Spina Bifida and those whoselives are touched by this challenging birth defect. Its tools are education, advocacy,research, and service.

AAPD

AAPD is the largest national nonprofit cross-disability member organization in theUnited States, dedicated to ensuring economic self-sufficiency and political empowermentfor the more than 50 million Americans with disabilities. AAPD works in coalition withother disability organizations for the full implementation and enforcement of disabilitynondiscrimination laws, particularly the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.