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DISABILITY ADVOCACY TEAMS (DAT), RESOURCES FOR INDEPENDENCE CENTRAL VALLEY (RICV)

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• Description: RICV is focused on three types of advocacy-self-advocacy, individual advocacy and systems advocacy.
  Services include:
  
  • Provides information to people with disabilities about their human rights.
  • Assisting people with disabilities to uphold their rights by speaking with and writing to people and organizations to raise awareness of problems and seek solutions.
  • Helping people with disabilities learn to advocate within complaint processes or legal action to enforce their human rights.
  • Writing and educating the government to encourage changes that protect the rights of individuals with disabilities.
  • Campaigning for social change by speaking to the media to raise
    awareness of situations where people with disabilities are treated unfairly.
• Website: http://www.ricv.org
• Email: info@ricv.org
• Phone(s): (559) 221-2330
• Hours: Mon 8:30am - 5:00pm; Tue 8:30am - 5:00pm; Wed 8:30am - 5:00pm; Thu 8:30am - 5:00pm; Fri 8:30am - 5:00pm;
• Eligibility: Adults (age 18 and older)
• Requirements: None
• Areas Served:
  • Fresno United States
  • Madera United States
• Categories:
  • Health Related Advocacy Groups
  • Disability Rights Groups
• Contacts:

Location(s)

Location Name: FRESNO OFFICE

• Accessibility: ADA accessible
• Physical Address: 3636 North First Street, Suite 101, Fresno, CA, 93726