Address Abuse and Neglect

Disability Rights DC (DRDC) monitors inpatient facilities, schools, and community-based residential and day settings. We also investigate and advocate to address complaints of improper seclusion, restraint, and other abusive and neglectful conduct in these settings if impacted individuals qualify under these programs: Mental Health, Developmental Disability, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Physical Disabilities (see below).

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Program Priorities

To determine your eligibility for our services and better understand the breadth of our work, please review our 2024 priorities for the following Protection and Advocacy programs, linked below: 

• Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities.
• Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness.
• Protection and Advocacy for Individual Rights.
• Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury.

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Are you in need of our services?

Do not hesitate to contact us today at (202) 547-0198 (telephone), (202) 547-2657 (TTY), or email us at drdcintake@uls-dc.org.