Disability Rights Wisconsin
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WCA provides advocacy to persons with developmental disabilities, mental illness, physical and sensory disabilities and their families on a variety of issues, including abuse neglect in institutions and the community, access to appropriate treatment, special education rights, and accessibility and discrimination problems in employment, transportation, housing, and insurance. WE engage in a variety of advocacy strategies such as: - providing information, advice, referral and guidance in self advocacy to consumers and their families -providing individual advocacy which could include investigating,negotiating or mediating on the behalf of persons with disabilities - legal representation -training to parents, consumers, and professionals -legislative advocacy and coalition building -class action and impact litigation
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award for 20 years of making waves 1999
Wisconsin Council on Developmental Disabilities (now WI Board on Persons with Developmental Disabilities)
Professional Service Award 2003
National Association for Mental Illness - Wisconsin
President's award 2004
Wisconsin Brain Injury Association
Richard Blakely Organizationial Achievement Award 2008
Governor's Committee for People with Disabilities
Advocacy award 2009
National Disability Rights Network
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Disability Rights Wisconsin
Board of directorsas of 06/12/2012
Jeff Timm
business development consultant
Term: 2012 - 2012
Sandra Ahrens
Grassroots Empowerment Project
Janette Herrera
Milwaukee Public Schools
Leslie RIggs
Deaf Empowerment
Frank Sterzen
Kohler Corporation
Jeffrey Timm
self employed business develoment consultant
Gary Arms
No affiliation
John Donnelly
No affiliation
Cathy Kunze
No affiliation
Saphronia Purnell-Carson
No affiliation
Christopher Sigl
Neosho Trompler
Alice Skenandore
Wise Women Gathering
Mary Unkel
non porfit management consultant
Wayne Griffiths
no affiliation
Magda Kmiecik
no affiliation
David Keech
Wisconsin Rapids School District
Patrick Mateer
Catholic Services
Ted Skemp
attorney - sole practictioner
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