We provide advocacy and advise regarding public benefits, including social security benefits and IHSS benefits, special education, disability discrimination and mental health services for children and young adults in seven counties: Fresno, Tulare, Madera, Kings, Merced, Mariposa, and Tuolomne.

Disability Rights California is a nonprofit agency that advances the human and legal rights of persons with disabilities. Disability Rights California began protecting the rights of Californians with disabilities in 1978. We now provide services to people with disabilities under seven federal programs--the Developmentally Disabled Assistance and Bill of Rights (PADD) ACT; the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) Act; the Protection and Advocacy of Individual Rights (PAIR) Act; the Protection and Advocacy for Beneficiaries of Social Security (PABSS) Act; the Assistive Technology (AT) Act of 1998; the Protection and Advocacy Traumatic Brain Injury (PATBI) act; and the Protection and Advocacy Voting Access (PAVA) act. Under a contract with California's Department of Mental Health, Disability Rights California operates the Office of Patients' Rights (OPR)--to advocate for the rights of people who have a psychiatric disability or emotional impairment. Disability Rights California operates the Office of Clients' Rights Advocacy (OCRA) under a contract with California's Department of Developmental Services. OCRA provides clients' rights advocacy to individuals with developmental disabilities who are clients of California's 21 regional centers.