The purpose of the Center is to assist protection and advocacy systems to ensure voting access for citizens with cognitive disabilities

Key Center Activities:

• Assist protection and advocacy systems to identify and address barriers to cognitive accessibility.
• Connect protection and advocacy systems with self-advocacy groups.
• Provide national technical assistance through Go Vote P & A teleconferences, NDRN conference in-service training, leadership on the Disability Vote Alliance (DVA), an interactive website (www.govoter.org), listserv, email and toll-free telephone support.
• Develop tools and material that are important to protection and advocacy systems for increasing cognitive access.
• Provide training at NDRN national conferences
• Intensive on-site training with P & As, self-advocacy groups, and election officials in providing cognitively accessible voter education for citizens with cognitive disabilities, including voter registration, casting a ballot, and full participation in the electoral process
• Develop materials and tools for increasing cognitive access, including an “I CAN VOTE” public service announcement; cognitively accessible voter education training curriculum, and a quick guide to voter registration.
• Provide technical assistance to P & As in building partnerships with self-advocacy groups.

The National Technical Assistance Center is a partnership of

• Self-Advocates Becoming Empowered
• The National Center for Self-Determination and 21st Century Leadership at Portland State University
• The RRTC on Aging with Developmental Disabilities at the University of Illinois
• Arizona Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities
• TheArcLink Incorporated
• Oklahoma Disability Law Center

Working in collaboration with

• National Disability Rights Network (NDRN)

For more information on the Center please contact Hannah Bowen by phone (503-725-9609) email: bowenh@pdx.edu

Nancy Ward phone: 405-528-1900 nward@thedesk.info

Funded in part by a grant from the Administration on Developmental Disabilities.

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