Disability Rights Network of Pennsylvania (DRN) is a statewide, non-profit corporation designated as the federally-mandated organization to advance and protect the civil rights of adults and children with disabilities. DRN works with people with disabilities and their families, their organizations, and their advocates to ensure their right to live in their communities with the services they need, to receive a full and inclusive education, to live free of discrimination, abuse and neglect, and to have control and self-determination over their services. DRN works to ensure that people with disabilities have equal and unhindered access to employment, transportation, public accommodations, and government services; to enforce their rights to vocational, habilitative, post-secondary educational, health, and other services; and to protect them from abuse and neglect. DRN identifies systemic issues which are important to people with disabilities and seeks change and reform through litigation, administrative advocacy, and public education.
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Pennsylvania Protection and Advocacy, Inc. (PP&A) and the Disabilities Law Project (DLP) have merged their public intake systems. PP&A is an independent, non-profit corporation designated pursuant to federal law to advocate for and protect the rights of Pennsylvanians with disabilities. DLP, a non-profit public interest law firm, contracts with PP&A to provide services to Pennsylvanians with disabilities who have legal problems relating to access to services and discrimination. People with disabilities, their family members, and advocates can contact the intake system to seek advice about disability rights, access to services, or abuse and neglect by calling PP&A's toll free number at 1-800-692-7443 (voice) and 877-375-7139 (TDD).
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