ADA Basics
This law prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in areas like public services, employment and telecommunications
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Respect for basic human dignity, services that are provided consistent with sound therapeutic practice and protection to exercise legal, civil, and human rights while receiving services
What are assured rights for individuals receiving services?
Both of these statues would be considered a civil law
What is the ADA and Human Rights?
This former president signed the ADA into law on July 26th, 1990.
Who is President George H Bush.
This specific title of the ADA ensures that state and local government services, programs, and activities are accessible to individuals with disabilities
What is Title II of the ADA?
Standardized rules that define and protect specific “assured” rights for individuals receiving services from providers of mental health, developmental or substance use services in Virginia.
What are the Human Rights Regulations?
Individuals receiving services in DBHDS facilities are covered by these two sets of laws.
What are Title II of the ADA and Human Rights?
How many titles are there within the ADA
Title II of the ADA requires this type of assistance to be provided to ensure effective communication for individuals with hearing disabilities
What is a sign language interpreter or auxiliary aids and services?
A complaint that alleges a provider of services that are licensed, funded or operated by DBHDS did not protect or enforce an individual's assured rights while the individual was receiving the provider's services.
What is a human rights complaint?
The scope of protections is within the delivery services for behavioral health and developmental services offered by providers that are licensed, funded, or operated by DBHDS
Human Rights
This 1973 law served as a foundation for the ADA by prohibiting discrimination based on disability in programs conducted by federal agencies.
What is the Rehabilitation Act of 1973?
According to the ADA, public services must make these types of adjustments to their facilities to ensure accessibility for people with mobility impairments.
What are reasonable accommodations, such as ramps or elevators
The complaint is connected to an assured right, the service setting and the individual's specific needs.
What makes a complaint a human rights complaint?
This 1948 document, drafted by a UN committee chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, enshrines the rights and freedoms of all human beings
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
Both are considered civil law