Administration for Community Living awarded HSRI the lead on The ACL Grassroots Project
The Administration for Community Living (ACL) awarded HSRI the lead on The Grassroots Project: Engage. Connect. Advocate., which will use 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.
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
HSRI will work with nine subcontractors to form the National Advocacy and Action Coalition:
- National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities
- National Disability Rights Network
- Association of University Centers on Disabilities
- Autistic Self-Advocacy Network
- Self-Advocacy Resource and Technical Assistance Center
- Association of Programs for Rural Independent Living
- National Council on Independent Living
- National Paralysis Resource Center
- National Associations of State Head Injury Administrators
These groups, together with HSRI, will engage with state and local advocacy and action groups to support the growth of a robust grassroots disability advocacy network.
We are thrilled to continue HSRI’s long-standing relationship with ACL and partners to develop networks of people and co-create solutions that support meaningful improvements in community living.
Alixe Bonardi, co-director of The Grassroots Project and Vice President (IDD-AD)