The Grassroots Project
DC
Opportunity
The Grassroots Project is a national effort to support disability grassroots advocacy. This project is administered by Human Services Research Institute with funding from the Administration for Community Living. The purpose of the project is to build effective advocacy networks and leaders to support high quality policy design and implementation.
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
Grassroot advocates often bring vital and practical lived experience of accessing services from the very service system being developed and can contribute to design and implementation to ensure that state government is working as intended.
Related news, publications, and resources
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- A National Environmental Scan of the Disability, Systems Change Advocacy Landscape
- BACs: A Vital New Element in Medicaid Service Design and Oversight
- Guide to Commenting on 1915c HCBS Waivers
- 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
Contact the Grassroots Project
Email grassroots@hsri.org