FREE White House Webinar Celebrating the Olmstead Act

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What is the Olmstead Act?
A 1999 US Supreme Court decision giving people with disabilities the right to live in the community and receive services, instead of being in institutions. That nobody should be forcibly removed from society and they should be able to make decisions for themselves.
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This Tuesday, 18 June 2024, NACDD (National Association of Councils for Developmental Disabilities) and State DD Councils will play an integral role in The White House’s 25^th Anniversary Olmstead Act celebration.  A dozen DD Councils will be represented at the event in-person, and three council members will be speakers. NACDD will be there to represent all of the Councils. And, most importantly, people with IDD are centered at the event – holding six of the 11 speaking elements of the event.

This celebration will be open for the public to attend virtually. Our National Council has been working closely with the White House on the event. We ask that you all please get this out to your networks. We want as many people as possible to attend, not only our DD council or disability circles. This is not about politics, and it is not just for ‘people who do disability stuff’. Olmstead is all about community, and we hope to get all sorts of members of the community to attend.  Real people will be talking about their real lives, and we want everyone to understand what Olmstead is and means to us, and – because having people with disabilities living in the community is good for the WHOLE community – we want people outside of disability circles to understand that Olmstead is good for them too. Please, tell you family, friends, neighbors to attend this event.

Again, it takes place this Tuesday, 18 June at 7:45am Hawaii Time.

It would be wonderful for the White House to see that Hawaii, the NACDD and the DD Councils can really turn out the folks! We want them to see that we can get people to show up for what matters to us. Please help us make this happen!

You MUST register for this White House event in order to attend virtually.