Disability Rights Nebraska operates a combined program of legal advocacy, relationship-based advocacy, systems advocacy, public policy analysis, education and other support activities for people with disabilities. This program is designed to help secure their rights, enhance their dignity, and advocate for their full participation as citizens with respect to their individual cultures. Among the P&A programs in the nation , Disability Rights Nebraska is one of the few that has such a broad range of advocacy activities, as many others focus primarily on litigation.
For more information, view a fact sheet for fiscal year 2025. The fact sheet is also available in Spanish.
FISCAL YEAR 2025 GOALS & OBJECTIVES
Disability Rights Nebraska uses a collaborative planning process in establishing a five year plan and developing annual objectives that includes input from staff, advisory councils, consumers, families, providers, policy makers and the general public. Each year we set new objectives for our work and invite comments from all interested persons on our activities. Our priority areas under the current strategic plan (2024 - 2028) are:
Focus Area 1: Freedom from Harm
People with disabilities have legal and human rights that protect their health, safety, personal integrity, and self-determination. Disability Rights Nebraska will protect and advocate for vulnerable people with disabilities, beginning with those living in congregated, isolated, and segregated settings, to ensure their rights are not violated and they are free from abuse, neglect, exploitation, and untimely death. Learn more.
Focus Area 2: Most Inclusive Settings
We recognize disability as a natural part of the human experience. People must be able to live the lives that they choose, and their lives must be free from abuse, discrimination, exploitation, harm, isolation, and neglect. Disability Rights Nebraska envisions a society where all people have the supports they need in order to experience self-determination by making their own real and meaningful choices — a society where all people are free to pursue opportunities in order to live culturally valued lives in fully integrated communities that are free from barriers, exploitation, and stigma. Learn more.
Focus Area 3: Engaging People with Disabilities in Advocacy
People who experience disabilities are the experts when it comes to their own lives. Disability Rights Nebraska advocates for all people with disabilities having access to services, skills, and supports needed to pursue their hopes, dreams, and things not yet imagined. Learn more.
