Dean Meets with ADAPT Leadership Team
Announces Sponsorship of First-Ever ADAPT National FUN-RUN Event Washington, DC
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Damien LaVera, Democratic National Committee 202-863-8148
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean today met with the leadership of ADAPT, one of America's preeminent disability rights organizations, to discuss disability issues and announce the DNCs sponsorship of ADAPT's first-ever National FUN-RUN event on April 29. Dean met with ADAPT's leading organizers Bob Kafka and Stephanie Thomas, along with Topeka Independent Living Resource Center (TILRC) executive director Mike Oxford, Direct Action Network director Bobby Coward, and Center for Disability Rights executive director Bruce Darling at the Democratic Party Headquarters in Washington.
Dean and the ADAPT leadership discussed a variety of issues confronting Americans with disabilities, including a persistent institutional bias in America's health care system that forces too many people with disabilities into nursing homes and institutions. Dean highlighted the Democratic Partys support for the Community Choice Act of 2007, which would allow countless Americans with disabilities the choice to live and work in their own homes and communities. Dean issued the following statement following the meeting:
I am proud to lead a Party that supports the fundamental right of every single American to make their own choices about where to live and work.
That is why I am also proud to partner with ADAPT and their members in sponsoring the National FUN-RUN for Disability Rights in our nation's capital. For close to a quarter of a century, ADAPT and their members have been working to preserve and protect the rights of Americans with disabilities, and to end the institutional bias that for too long has forced too many of our fellow citizens into nursing homes and institutions instead of allowing them to live independent lives in their own homes and communities. Today, I join ADAPT in calling for swift passage of the bipartisan Community Choice Act.
Source: Democratic National Convention (DNC) FOR MORE INFORMATION on ADAPT visit our website at http://www.adapt.org/
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