Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities

What are Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities? Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTFs) are places children and adolescents are admitted to get mental health treatment. The problems with PRTFs Many PRTFs fail […]

SSA Benefits Rep Payee Program

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljgjJYrO8K4 Sometimes people who receive benefits from the Social Security Administration (SSA) need someone to help them manage those benefits. When that happens, SSA will appoint someone to manage that […]

Self-determination and Guardianship

What is Guardianship? Adult guardianship is when a court decides that a person does not have the ability to manage their personal life, finances, or both. A person or agency […]

Public Policy

Laws and regulations are often the underlying cause of the problems people with disabilities face. For example, a statute or regulation may not be protective enough, or it may be […]

Investigations and Monitoring

Investigating and monitoring facilities is one of the primary jobs of a Protection and Advocacy Agency (P&A). *Those locations include, but are not limited to, schools, group homes, day programs, […]

Housing Rights

Others need their landlord to make changes to their home so that they can use and enjoy it as anyone else would. We call these changes reasonable accommodations or modifications. […]

Home and Community-Based Services

We help both children and adults with mental health and/or developmental disabilities obtain services. How DRNC advocates to improve HCBS Providing advice about getting State-funded services, like Personal Care Services. […]

Employment Rights

Examples of our work Successfully advocated for a state agency to use a program that helps workers with disabilities stay on Medicaid; Helped workers with disabilities receive reasonable accommodations, such […]