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Legal Services Advocacy Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services (IPAS)
Works to protect and promote the rights of individuals with disabilities through empowerment and advocacy.
Legal Services Advocacy Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services (IPAS)
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Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services (IPAS)
Program Description
-Provides information and technical assistance to empower individuals to advocate for their own rights.
-Investigates, or causes an investigation to take place, concerning reports of abuse or neglect of individuals living in the community, in residential facilities or in correctional facilities.
-Assists in securing the appropriate medical, psychiatric or habilitation services.
-Assists families in securing the free and appropriate public education services for children with disabilities, to which they are entitled.
-Helps gain access to public places and governmental buildings.
-Corrects discrimination when individuals attempt to obtain housing or employment.
-Empowers individuals to make their own decisions and be fully participating members of their communities.
-Helps to secure the assistive technology services and devices individuals need to be more independent.
-Helps to assure that private information is not released without an individual's permission.
-Helps secure the rights of individuals to make their own choices as they prepare for employment through Vocational Rehabilitation or Ticket to Work training programs.
-Helps to ensure that voting machines and polling places are accessible to individuals with disabilities.
-Investigates, or causes an investigation to take place, concerning reports of abuse or neglect of individuals living in the community, in residential facilities or in correctional facilities.
-Assists in securing the appropriate medical, psychiatric or habilitation services.
-Assists families in securing the free and appropriate public education services for children with disabilities, to which they are entitled.
-Helps gain access to public places and governmental buildings.
-Corrects discrimination when individuals attempt to obtain housing or employment.
-Empowers individuals to make their own decisions and be fully participating members of their communities.
-Helps to secure the assistive technology services and devices individuals need to be more independent.
-Helps to assure that private information is not released without an individual's permission.
-Helps secure the rights of individuals to make their own choices as they prepare for employment through Vocational Rehabilitation or Ticket to Work training programs.
-Helps to ensure that voting machines and polling places are accessible to individuals with disabilities.
Person in Charge
Debbie Dulla
Address
4701 N. Keystone Ave., Suite 222, Indianapolis, IN, 46205-1561
Telephone
(800) 622-4845
Fax
(317) 722-5563
E-mail
Hours of Operation
Monday-Friday, 8:00 am-4:00 pm.
Website
Created
2008-06-27
Modified
01/15/2012
Visited
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