The Disability Law Center (DLC) is a private non-profit organization. We are designated as the Protection and Advocacy agency for the state of Utah to protect the rights of people with disabilities in Utah.
Our mission:
To enforce and strengthen laws that protect the opportunities, choices and legal rights of people with disabilities in Utah.
Our vision:
We envision a just society where all people are treated with equity, dignity, and respect.
Our values:
- Equality, Equity and Fairness: People with disabilities are full and equal citizens under the law. They are entitled to equal access to the same opportunities afforded all members of society.
- People with disabilities are entitled to be free from abuse, neglect, exploitation, discrimination, and isolation, and to be treated with respect and dignity.
- Meaningful Choice and Empowerment: People, regardless of age, type and level of disability have the right to make choices both with respect to daily routines and major life events.
- Supports and Participation: Services and supports are shaped by the unique needs and preferences of each individual, and assure and enhance opportunities for integration in all aspects of life. Services are age-appropriate and premised on the fact that people with disabilities, continue to learn, change and develop throughout their lives. For children such growth is best accomplished within families, and for adults, within integrated communities, rather than institutions.
- Independence: Advocacy services are based on a philosophy of equal access, peer support and self-determination to be achieved through individual, professional and system advocacy. Services are delivered in a manner that maximizes leadership, independence, productivity and integration of individuals with disabilities.
- Cultural Competency: Advocacy services reflect, and are responsive to, the diverse cultural, ethnic and racial composition of society.
Our goals:
- People with disabilities will be free from abuse and neglect.
- People with disabilities will receive appropriate services.
- People with disabilities will be free from discrimination.
- People with disabilities will have equal employment opportunities.
Areas in which we work:
- Abuse and neglect in long term care facilities
- Accessibility
- Housing discrimination
- Voting access
- Medicaid or insurance denial of assistive technology
- Education issues (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)
- Clients and applicants of Vocational Rehabilitation
Areas in which we DO NOT work:
- Family law matters (divorce, custody, child support, etc.)
- Wills, trusts and probate
- Malpractice cases
- Worker Compensation
- Product liability
- Bankruptcy
- Consumer protection issues
- Tax, pension
- Property disputes
- Social Security
- TANF
- Food stamp claims
- Criminal proceedings
- Personal injury
- Guardianships
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