Independent Living Resource Center San Francisco
649 Mission Street
3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
English
(415) 543-6222
TTY
(415) 543-6698
Spanish
(415) 543-6743
Chinese
(415) 543-6768
FAX
(415) 543-6318
WEB LINKS
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Other Useful Web Links
ADA/Assistive Technology/Accommodations/Transportation
Bay Area Disability Organizations
State and National Independent Living Organizations
ADA/Assistive Technology/
Accommodations/Transportation
- ADA Information Services
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
- Department of Transportation offers technical assistance on ADA provisions applying to public transportations
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC) - Disabilities Rights Office
- Assistive Technology (AT Network)
- Disability & Business Technical Assistance Centers
- Pacific Disability and Business Technical Assistance Center (Pacific DBTAC)
- Job Accommodation Network (JAN)
- Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Inc. (DREDF)
- National Organization on Disability (NOD)
- American Association of Persons with Disabilities (AAPD)
- California Center for the Law and the Deaf
- ADA Regulations & Technical Assistance Materials
- People with disabilities work toward Concrete Change
- Center for Accessible Technology -- formerly DCCG
- www.elabresources.com Your assistive technology resources since 1999
- www.rehabtool.com Assistive Technology Making a World of Difference
- Access Unlimited AccessAble Vehicles for People with Disabilities -- Access Unlimited
Bay Area Disability Organizations
- Rose Resnick Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired
- United Cerebral Palsy of the Golden Gate formerly United Cerebral Palsy of San Francisco
- United Cerebral Palsy Associations (national office)
- Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University
- Women with Developmental Disabilities Website
- Developmental Disabilities Resources Center
State and National Independent Living Organizations
- California Foundation for Independent Living Centers (CFILC)
- California State Independent Living Council (SILC)
- Independent Living Research Utilization (ILRU)
- Independent Living USA
Advocacy Groups
- ADAPT
- www.tash.org/ TASH Equity, Quality and Social Justice for people with disability since 1975
- Consortium for Citizens with Disabiliites
- The Disability Rights Activist
- California Foundation for Independent Living Centers (CFILC)
- Environmental Health Network (EHN)
- Justice for All E-mail Network
- National Empowerment Center (NEC). See also the NEC-West link in the side-bar
- Disability Advocacy Worldwide
- Disability Rights Advocates
- The Freedom Clearinghouse Their Mission is to free all law abiding people with disabilities from institutions to live in the community.
- World Association of Persons with disAbilities - can translate ILRCSF web page in several languages - has a good set of resource links
- Protection and Advocacy, Inc. (PAI) talks with people and sends out good free written material concerning the rights of people with disabilities.
- National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy (NARPA) -- for recipients of mental health services
- Integrated Arts (IA) brings together artists with & without disabilities to promote social integration
- National Institute of Arts and Disabilities (NAID)
- National Artists for Mental Health (NAMH)
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD)
- National Arts and Disability Center (NADC)
- Very Special Arts (VSA) provides educational opportunities through the arts for children & adults with disabilities
- Disability Rights, Enforcement, Education, Services (DREES)
- Inside Out Productions Studio Artists with developmental Disabilities
- Artists Against AIDS a non-profit organization committed to mobilizing the artistic communities of Trinidad and Tobago to address the challenges posed by HIV and AIDS.
Travel
Support/Resource Centers
- www.makoa.org/ disABILITY Information and Resources -- all kinds of lings
- Women With Disabilities Resource Center Provided by the National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC)
- Breast Health Access for Women with Disabilities (BHAWD)
- Through the Looking Glass (TLG) For Parents with Disabilities
- Department of Developmental Services (DDS)
- ADAPT
- A Women's Wheelchair Building Project of Wheelchair International at San Francisco State University
- Spinal Chord Injury connection (SCI)
- Bay Area Outreach and Recreations Program (BORP) Recreation referral and consultation (for children and adults)
- www.tbi-sci.org/tbird/ The Rehabilitation and Research Center for Traumatic Brain Injury and Spinal Chord Injury
Aging and Disability
- American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
- California Department of Aging
- Aging with Disability
- Administration on Aging (AOA)
Federal Government
- www.ppcd.org/ People-to-People Committee on Disabilities since 1956
- Social Security Administration (SSA) Work Incentives
- Department of Labor Job Bank
- Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
- IRS Tax Forms
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Emergency Information
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) Medicare
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC) - Disabilities Rights Office
Local Government
- Mayor's Office of Disability (MOD) - has a good set of local links
Children and Disability
- Institute of Health and disability
- Special Child an internet magazine for parents of special needs children
Other
- www.sexualhealth.com seeks to provide the most accurate info about sexuality and disability possible
- www.disabilitynews.com/ Disability News Service
- whirlwind.sfsu.edu/ Whirlwind Wheelchair International -- to address the need for wheelchairs in developing countries
- June Kailes, Disability Consultant
- StudyBuddy Tutorial Services
- Home Modification
- Institute on Independent Living serves self-help organizations
- www.CanDo.com devoted to the needs of people with disabilities - includes online shopping
- Disability Access Symbols 12 signs that can be downloaded
- Towards a New Money System and Healthy Communities. It could help out people on SSI.
- Berkeley Region Exchange and Development, BREAD, a local alternative money experiment. It could help out people on SSI.
- Mind Freedom Journal - supporting human rights in the mental health system.
- users.primushost.com/~dmoisan/invisible_disability.html The Invisible Disabilities Page
- disABLEDperson.com Dealing with the Human Side of Disabilities, and employment.
- www.geocities.com/HotSprings/7319/ Disability Culture -- Pride in being who we are