Arizona Center for Disability Law
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People with Disabilities. The Center provides legal services to people who have a wide range of physical, mental, psychiatric, sensory and cognitive disabilities. We receive specific federal protection and advocacy funding to assist people with certain kinds of disabilities, such as developmental disabilities or serious mental illness. If you call the Center requesting our help, we have to ask you about your disability because of our funding requirements. | |
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People with disability-related problems. The Center does not handle general legal problems encountered by all people whether they have disabilities or not, such as probate of an estate, obtaining a divorce or filing for bankruptcy. The Center serves individuals whose disability is the reason for discrimination, abuse or neglect, or failure to provide needed services. | |
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People whose legal problems fall within priority areas. Demand for Center services far exceeds our resources. On a yearly basis, the Center is required to adopt priority areas for its services based on public input. These priorities are available upon request. The types of priorities generally addressed by the Center are listed under What kinds of problems does the Arizona Center for Disability Law address?. | |
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People whose cases have merit and generally where there is no other agency or attorney available to solve the problem. Given our limited resources, Center staff must concentrate their efforts on cases where advocacy will make a difference. If another organization can handle the matter, or the claim has limited merit given the time and resources needed to resolve it, the Center may not be able to take on the case. | |
| If a person meets these guidelines, assistance is provided based on the availability of staff and resources. | ||
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