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ALT Header: Digital Rally. Title Text: The American Promise: Defending Birthright Citizenship. Text: RSVP: bit.ly/defendbirthright3-26. Text: March 26 10-11am PT/1-2pm ET. Hosted by: Asian Law Caucus, Move On, Vet Voice Foundation, Popular Democracy. Right, an illustration of the Statue of Liberty.
ALT Ever wondered how advocacy, policy, and community voices come together to improve systems for people with developmental disabilities? Our Deputy Director of Policy & Public Affairs, Christofer Arroyo, breaks it down on the Raising Ryan podcast. 🎧 Listen: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EDJFWfOJomTvWZ3ioPL8t?si=d54b982ae0ea4944 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/02-24-26-special-guest-christofer-arroyo-deputy-director/id1813304024?i=1000750882415 #DisabilityRights #Advocacy
ALT Image Description: Allie, our Managing Director, poses with three partners in front of a backdrop reading “Make Housing Justice Happen” and featuring the National Low Income Housing Coalition logo. Allie is pictured in a power wheelchair, with the three partners standing behind her. They all wear casual clothing and lanyards and are smiling at the camera.
ALT Image Description: Allie, a white queer person in a wheelchair, shakes hands with Senator Padilla. Allie has short brown hair, round glasses, earrings, and is wearing a light-colored outfit. Senator Schmidt stands next to Allie’s wheelchair. Both senators wear dark suits and ties. A corner of the American flag and the State of California flag are visible in the background.
ALT Image Description: Allie poses with Iliana, the Housing Organizer at Access Living and a former Raise the Roof participant. Both of them are in power wheelchairs. The words “Housing Policy Forum” and the National Low Income Housing Coalition’s logo are used as a pattern on a backdrop behind them. They are both wearing lanyards and casual clothing.
ALT Image Description: A quote by Allie Cannington and Stephen Jacob Smith from the op-ed “How elevator rules are throwing a wrench into America’s housing market,” published in The Washington Post. The quote is written in white text against a dark blue background and reads: “One of us has spent over a decade advocating for more missing-middle housing; the other uses a wheelchair and would mostly be locked out of living in such housing.”
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ALT Two women standing in front of a chalkboard look at a notebook. One woman has a cognitive disability.
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ALT Graphic 1: Title Text: Paths to Actually Improve Homelessness and Mental Health Care in California. Sub-title, boxed: #1: Peer Services & Supports. Above, a dotted line zig zagged going up. Blue/green DRC logo. White boxed APHC logo with a black crow. Large black and white illustration of the backside of a figure, wearing a robe and holding a staff, standing on a cliff, looking out to an expansive land beyond.
ALT Graphic 2: Title Text: Peer Services & Supports. Body Text: Evidence shows that, when we center peer-led responses, communities experience a decreased need for emergency or in-patient services, decreased unnecessary interactions with law enforcement, decreased incarceration or institutionalization, and therefore severely decreased costs. Blue/green DRC logo. White boxed APHC logo with a black crow.
ALT Graphic 3: Title Text: Peer Services & Supports. Body Text: Evidence also shows that, when we center voluntary, community-based, peer-led responses, individuals are more likely to engage in services, feel empowered and hopeful, and break cycles such that they’re less likely to need crisis services in the future. Blue/green DRC logo. White boxed APHC logo with a black crow. Bottom jagged cut out photo of two people seated across from each other, holding hands.
ALT Graphic 4: Title Text: Learn more on our Substack. Blue/green DRC logo. White boxed APHC logo with a black crow. Square graphic in the center of a large black and white illustration of the backside of a figure, wearing a robe and holding a staff, standing on a cliff, looking out to an expansive land beyond. Text over image: DISABILITYRIGHTSCALIFORNIA.SUBSTACK.COM. Blue/green DRC logo. Title Text: California Mental Health Policy Is At A Desperate Crossroads. Text: In response to The SF Chronicle, the new legislative session, and the people, DRC & APHC demand a better path
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