The Grassroots Project
DC
Opportunity
The Grassroots Project is a national effort to support disability grassroots advocacy. This new initiative is administered by Human Services Research Institute with funding from the Administration for Community Living.
Approach
The Grassroots Project uses a multi-system (e.g., national, state, and local) approach to:
- Develop structures, processes, and relationships necessary to build the next generation of cross-disability, cross-generational, and culturally diverse leaders within the advocacy movement.
- Connect, grow, and strengthen networks of grassroots advocacy and action coalitions supporting each other and with the skills and knowledge to advocate for improvements in the quality of community-living supports.
Impact
The project advances ACL’s efforts to support grassroots engagement in the implementation of the HCBS settings rule and ACL’s program priorities and focus areas, including:
- Person-centered planning, consumer direction, and self-direction
- Caregiver crisis
- Health and safety in community living
- HCBS settings rule
- Civil Rights
- Community integration
- Technology
HSRI is working with ten subcontractors to form the National Advocacy and Action Coalition:
- Association of Programs for Rural Independent Living
- Association of University Centers on Disabilities
- Autistic Self-Advocacy Network
- National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities
- National Association of Statewide Independent Living Councils
- National Associations of State Head Injury Administrators
- National Council on Independent Living
- National Disability Rights Network
- National Paralysis Resource Center
- Self-Advocacy Resource and Technical Assistance Center
Related news, publications, and resources
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- Administration for Community Living awarded HSRI the lead on The ACL Grassroots Project
- A National Environmental Scan of the Disability, Systems Change Advocacy Landscape
- BACs: A Vital New Element in Medicaid Service Design and Oversight
- Webinar: Finding One’s Advocacy Community: Stories and Insights from the Disability Community
- Webinar: Coalition Building: Strategies and Perspective in Disability Advocacy
- Webinar: Expanding Disability Advocacy by Working Together
This is a tremendous opportunity from ACL to invest in the power of connecting disabled people to have a voice in and control over their lives through grassroots impact on systems of support.
Kate Brady, co-director of The Grassroots Project