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Alabama Client Assistance Program - a state agency that is unique in all
the nation for providing services to children and adults with disabilities.
[http://www.rehab.state.al.us]

Alabama Protection & Advocacy Organization - ADAP provides quality,

legally-based advocacy services to persons with disabilities through
protecting, promoting, and expanding their rights.
[http://www.adap.net]

Arizona Protection & Advocacy Organization - The Arizona Center for

Disability Law advocates for the legal rights of persons with disabilities to
be free from abuse, neglect and discrimination and to have access to
education, health care, jobs, and other services in order to maximize
independence and achieve equality.
[http://www.nau.edu/~ihd/acdl]

Arkansas Protection & Advocacy Organization/Client Assistance Program

- Advocacy Services, Inc. is a federally funded, private non-profit agency
which serves as the independent protection and advocacy system for
people with disabilities in Arkansas.
[http://www.advocacyservices.org]

California Protection & Advocacy Organization - PAI works in partnership

with people with disabilities - to protect, advocate for and advance their
human, legal and service rights. We strive toward a society that values all
people and supports their rights to dignity, freedom, choice and quality of

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[http://www.pai-ca.org]

Florida Protection & Advocacy Organization/Client Assistance Program -

The Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities Inc., is a non-profit
organization providing protection and advocacy services in the State of
Florida.
[http://www.advocacycenter.org]

Georgia Protection & Advocacy Organization - The Georgia Advocacy

Office (GAO) is a private non-profit corporation. Its mission is to work
with and for oppressed and vulnerable individuals in Georgia who are
labeled as disabled or mentally ill to secure their protection and
advocacy.
[http://thegao.org]

Idaho Protection & Advocacy Organization/Client Assistance Program -

Comprehensive Advocacy, Inc. (Co-Ad) protects, promotes and advances
the legal and human rights of people with disabilities, through quality
legal, individual, and system advocacy.
[http://users.moscow.com/co-ad]

Massachusetts Protection & Advocacy Organization - The Disability Law

Center is a private, non-profit public interest law firm providing free legal
assistance and information to people with disabilities throughout
Massachusetts.
[http://www.dlc-ma.org/]

Michigan Protection & Advocacy Organization/Client Assistance Program

- Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service, Inc. (MPAS) is a private,
non-profit organization designated by the Governor to protect and
promote the human and legal rights of people with disabilities in Michigan
through the provision of information and advocacy.
[http://www.mpas.org]

Montana Protection & Advocacy Organization/Client Assistance Program

- The Montana Advocacy Program (MAP) is a non-profit corporation that
administers five Protection and Advocacy programs that advocate the
rights of Montanans with disabilities.
[http://www.mt.net/~advocate]

Nevada Client Assistance Program - The CLIENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

provides information across Nevada about benefits and services to
individuals under the Americans with Disabilities Act and about all
available benefits and services under the Rehabilitation Act.
[http://members.delphi.com/nvCAP/inde x.html ]

Nevada Disability Advocacy and Law Center - Nevada Disability Advocacy

and Law Center (NDALC) is Nevada's federally mandated protection and
advocacy system for the human, legal, and service rights for individuals
with disabilities.
[http://www.ndalc.org]

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New Jersey Protection & Advocacy Organization/Client Assistance

Program - New Jersey Protection and Advocacy, Inc. (NJP&A) is the
consumer-controlled, non-profit organization that serves as New Jersey's
designated protection and advocacy system for people with disabilities in
the state.
[http://www.njpanda.org].

New Mexico Protection & Advocacy Organization/Client Assistance

Program - We are advocates working together with people who have
disabilities in promoting and protecting their legal and service rights
[http://www.nmprotection-advocacy.com ]

New York Protection & Advocacy Organization/Client Assistance Program

- The Commission on Quality of Care for the Mentally Disabled serves
people with mental disabilities and their families by providing
independent oversight of the quality and cost effectiveness of services
provided by all mental hygiene programs in New York State. It administers
five federal formula grant programs through which it provides legal and
non-legal advocacy services to persons with disabilities to assist them in
obtaining the services and protections of federal and state laws.
[http://www.cqc.state.ny.us]

North Carolina Protection & Advocacy Organization - The Governor's

Advocacy Council for Persons with Disabilities (GACPD) is part of a
nationwide system of protection and advocacy agencies. It is a civil rights
protection agency committed to serving citizens with disabilities in North
Carolina.
[http://www.doa.state.nc.us/doa/gacpd /gac pd.htm]

Ohio Protection & Advocacy Organization - Ohio Legal Rights Service

(OLRS) is an independent state agency and the federally designated
Protection and Advocacy (P & A) agency for Ohio. The mission of this
agency is to protect and advocate the human, civil, and legal rights of
people with disabilities. OLRS' goal is to enable people with disabilities to
realize self-determination, equality of opportunity, and full participation.
[http://www.state.oh.us/olrs]

Oklahoma Protection & Advocacy Organization - the mission of the

Oklahoma Disability Law Center, Inc. is to protect, promote and expand
the rights of people with disabilities and mental illness.
[http://www.flash.net/~odlcokc/]

South Dakota Protection & Advocacy Organization/Client Assistance

Program - South Dakota Advocacy Services (SDAS) is an independent,
private, non-profit, tax exempt corporation designated by the Governor to
assist in providing protection and advocacy services to eligible South
Dakotans.
[http://dakotalink.tie.net/sdastxt.html]

TTAC/NAPAS - An association which represents federally mandated

programs that protect the rights of persons with disabilities
[http://www.protectionandadvocacy.com]

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Utah Protection & Advocacy Organization/Client Assistance Program - To

enforce and strengthen the laws that protect the rights of people with
disabilities in Utah through legal advocacy.
[http://www.disabilitylawcenter.org]

Virginia Protection & Advocacy Organization/Client Assistance Program -

The Department is dedicated to the mission of providing responsive,
expert assistance and legal representation to address disability-related
abuse and neglect, discrimination, and inappropriate services and
treatment throughout Virginia.
[http://www.state.va.us/hhr/drvd]

Washington Protection & Advocacy Organization - The Washington

Protection and Advocacy System (WPAS) is a private, non-profit
organization that has been protecting the rights of people with disabilities
since 1974.
[http://www.wpas-rights.org/]

West Virginia Protection & Advocacy Organization/Client Assistance

Program - West Virginia Advocates, Inc. (WVA) provides advocacy to
people with disabilities. WVA services are supported by federal, state, and
private funds. WVA is the designated protection and advocacy agency for
West Virginians with disabilities under the federally mandated national
protection and advocacy system. WVA operates five distinct federal
protection and advocacy programs which address the diverse needs of
people with disabilities[http://www.newwave.net/~wvadvocates]

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