DRNM Priority Community Survey

Disability Rights New Mexico (DRNM) is an independent, private non-profit agency legal rights center that protects and promotes the human and civil rights of people with disabilities. Every three years, the staff, Board of Directors, and PAIMI Advisory Council at Disability Rights New Mexico gather to share experiences to develop Priorities and Objectives on which the agency will focus its resources. Please help us decide what is most important in promoting, protecting, and expanding the legal rights of New Mexicans with disabilities. Thank you.

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* 1. From the list below, please select up to three types of legal rights violations you think are the biggest problems for people with disabilities in New Mexico.

Medicaid and Medicaid Waiver denials, reductions and delays of services and equipment.

Special education: denial of services such as evaluations, IEP, BIP, 504 plan development/implementation resulting in failure to provide Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE.)

Freedom from abuse, neglect and exploitation in facilities, including staff abuse, over-medication, forced treatment

Overly restrictive or unnecessary guardianships or denial of rights by any substitute decision maker

Failure to provide mental health services in community settings

Employment discrimination in hiring, compensating and maintaining employment, and providing reasonable accommodation

Impediments to accessing transportation, government offices and voting

Denial of reasonable accommodations in public settings and higher education

Failure to implement Advance Mental Healthcare Directives

Freedom from improper seclusion and restraint or excessive force by police or School Resource Officers

Inadequate discharge planning from hospitals and treatment facilities

Discrimination in housing such as denial of reasonable accommodation, refusal to rent on the basis of a disability, rental termination because of a disability

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* 2. Please tell us about yourself. Select all items that apply.

I am a person with a disability.

I provide direct services to people with disabilities.

I work for an agency/company that serves people who have disabilities.

I am a family member of a person/persons with a disability.

I am interested in the legal rights of people with disabilities.

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* 3. What community do you live in?

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* 4. Please tell us anything additional that will help us decide which rights violations to focus on in the coming years. Thank you for your participation!