ADA Partner's Project

A Cooperative Effort of Access Alaska and the Disability & Business Technical Assistance Centers

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Partner's Project

The Partner's Project

The purpose of the Partner's Project is to provide expert in-depth advise for implementing the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The Partner's Project maintains a statewide network of community based experts, most of whom experience disabilities, to provide interpretive guidance and training for business and local government. ADA Partners are familiar with the unique difficulties that are faced by Alaskans in complying with the ADA.

Local governments can receive interpretive guidance in providing program access that complies with the ADA. Partners are trained to provide assistance in developing a Transition Plan that will systematically address the removal of physical barriers to accessibility.
Business owners can receive technical assistance in meeting their barrier removal responsibilities. Partners are available to help with compliance surveys that will identify barriers that prevent access to the facility. Partners are trained to review your compliance plans to insure that access priorities are met and the highest level of access possible is attained.
Employers can receive training on how to provide an accessible workplace. ADA Partners' can assist employers in providing reasonable accommodation that will allow a valued employee with a disability to remain on the job.

Individuals with disabilities and disability organizations can receive training to help understand the rights and responsibilities that come with ADA protection.

Contact the Partner's Project at 1-888-462-1444 (V/TT) 1-907-235-0159 (Fax)

jimbrady@xyz.net

Americans with Disabilities Act

The Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law on July 26, 1990. It was the fulfillment of a decades long effort by a coalition of disability organizations. The law is the response to an entrenched, persistent, and crippling systemic discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all aspects of American society.
The Americans with Disabilities Act gives guidance to state and local governments, private business, and transportation systems in removing attitudinal and architectural barriers which tend to exclude people with disabilities from full participation in American life.
The Americans with Disabilities Act defines as discrimination the failure to remove barriers that prevent access, by individuals with disabilities, to state and local government programs, services and activities, private business, and transportation systems.

Disability & Business Technical Assistance Centers

The Northwest Disability and Business Technical Assistance Center (NWDBTAC) provides information, technical assistance and training on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to all people with rights and responsibilities under the law. NWDBTAC is one of ten regional centers in the United States specifically designated to assist with the dissemination of information about the ADA. The state partners participating in this venture are Access Alaska, the Idaho Task Force on the ADA, Independent Living Resources of Oregon and the Washington Governor's Committee on Disability Issues and Employment. Funding for the NWDBTAC comes from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, U.S. Department of Education.

Access Alaska

Access Alaska - assisting Alaskans with disabilities to live independently in the community of their choice. Bringing a message of disability strength, pride, and dignity to the north country for over fifteen years. Access Alaska has two offices, in Anchorage and in Fairbanks...Individuals with disabilities can best make their own decisions about their lives. The only handicaps they face are societal attitudes and physical barriers, not the disabilities they experience.

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