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
• Oklahoma Disability Law Center
• The RRTC on Aging with Developmental Disabilities at the University of Illinois
• Arizona Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities
• TheArcLink Incorporated

Working in collaboration with

• National Disability Rights Network (NDRN)

For more information on the Center please contact

Hannah Bowen           phone: 503-725-9609
                                email: bowenh@pdx.edu
Nancy Ward                phone: 405-528-1900  
                                email: nward@thedesk.info

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

National Technical Assistance Center for
Voting and Cognitive Access

The National Technical Assistance

        Center for Voting and Cognitive

     Access is managed and operated

             by self-advocacy leaders.

Key Center Activities:
 

• Provide technical assistance to protection and advocacy systems through an interactive website (www.govoter.org), bi-annual conference calls, email and telephone support.
• Conduct intensive on-site training with state P&As to provide cognitively accessible voter education.
• Assist protection and advocacy systems to identify and address barriers to cognitive accessibility.
• Connect protection and advocacy systems with self-advocacy groups.
• Develop tools and material for increasing cognitive access, including an “I CAN VOTE” public service announcement and a quick guide to voter registration.
• Provide training at NDRN national conferences