Tag: #DOR

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Community & Advocacy Disability Justice & Access Public Health & Policy

Our Lives Cannot Wait: California’s Rehabilitation Waitlist and Blind Community Advocacy

California Blind Advocacy: A Fireside Conversation. California’s outline, a gold capitol dome and gavel, and the National Federation of the Blind of California logo. Tagline: Live the life you want.

California’s rehabilitation waitlist affects education, employment, health, and daily life. Watch our September 14 fireside conversation about Order of Selection, learn from blind advocates, and find ways to take action and support NFB of California.

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Ableism Community & Advocacy Disability Justice & Access Public Health & Policy Public Record

When Ableism Becomes Policy: The Public Health Cost of Delayed Rehabilitation

Editorial illustration reading “When Ableism Becomes Policy.” A blocked application on a laptop sits beside a white cane, with California’s outline, a public health pulse line, government columns, and a narrow rainbow stripe in the background.

Two DOR applications, no response, inaccessible government forms, and why disability service delays are a public health emergency. This post has three parts: the problem, my letter to Governor Newsom, and why I wrote it the way I did.