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FFY 2008 Draft Priorities
Summary of FFY 2008 Priorities and Plan
I. Background on Major Federal Protection and Advocacy Programs
A. Protection and Advocacy for Developmental Disabilities (PADD)
B. Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI)
C. Protection and Advocacy for Individual Rights (PAIR)
II. Case Selection Priorities and Special Initiatives
A. Personal Safety, Basic Health and Fundamental Liberty
B. Community Integration
C. Anti-Discrimination
D. Self-Determination
E. Special Education
III. Priorities for PABSS, PAAT, PATBI and PAVA Programs
A. Protection and Advocacy for Beneficiaries of Social Security (PABSS)
B. Protection and Advocacy for Assistive Technology (PAAT)
C. Protection and Advocacy for People with Traumatic Brain Injuries (PATBI)
D. Protection and Advocacy for Voting Access (PAVA)
IV. Miscellaneous Case Selection Guidelines
A. General Case Acceptance Guidelines
B. Litigation Guidelines
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Protection and Advocacy for Individual Rights (PAIR)

Equip for Equality receives funding from the Rehabilitation Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Education under the Protection and Advocacy of Individual Rights (PAIR) Act to provide protection and advocacy services to all individuals with disabilities, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, except for those eligible for PADD or PAIMI.

This website is made possible by funding support from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: the Administration on Developmental Disabilities, and the Center for Mental Health Services of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; and from the Rehabilitation Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Education. The contents of this website are solely the responsibility of Equip for Equality, Inc. and do not necessarily represent the official views of any of these agencies.

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