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Empower People With Disabilities
CPR uses legal strategies, advocacy, and policy to promote the integration and full community participation of people with disabilities and all others who are devalued in today’s society.
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Litigation
Expanding and protecting the rights of people with disabilities.
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Defend Section 504
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is under attack. Learn more and stay up-to-date on advocacy efforts to save it.
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Advocacy
Stay current on disability issues, educate yourself about the impact of proposed policy changes, and learn how to take action.
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Supported Decision-Making
Learn about SDM, read how SDM transforms lives, and become a participant, supporter or advocate.
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COVID-19
Get up-to-date resources on COVID-19 and its impact on people with disabilities, including information on the latest policy developments, medical rationing, and Medicaid.
News
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September 15, 2025CPR’s work nationally, and in Massachusetts, continues to focus on expanding the legal rights of people with disabilities to make choices in their own lives, including the right of persons subject to guardianship and conservatorship proceedings to choose, retain and, in appropriate circumstances, discharge their own counsel. When a recent Massachusetts Appellate Court case invited briefing on this question, CPR took primary responsibility for the organization and development of an amicus brief, in collaboration with local partners, DLC and MHLAC. The brief was filed on September 15, 2025.
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September 1, 2025The Bringing People Home initiative includes the named plaintiffs, their families and supporters, the Dignity Alliance, and six workgroups (ASAPs, Independent Living Centers, families and guardians, attorneys and advocates, behavioral providers, and cultural competency advocates) that assist in monitoring implementation of the Agreement.
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August 15, 2025The Trump administration is attempting to eliminate important civil rights protections contained in federal regulations, and CPR is working to push back and delay these efforts by drafting, and joining allied groups’, comments in response to proposed regulatory changes.
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August 8, 2025On June 17, 2025, Judge Orlando Garcia issued a landmark decision, finding that the State of Texas violated the rights of thousands of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in Texas nursing facilities. He ordered the parties to submit proposed remedial orders by August 1, 2025.
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August 7, 2025On August 7, APM published an article titled “‘We did not want to take this guy’: Abuse rates higher at nursing homes with more mental illness,” which highlights the systemic challenges faced by people with disabilities—particularly those with serious mental illness—when institutionalized in nursing facilities.