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Advocacy for Individuals with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, their Families and Allies
The legislative Notebook is your resource for advocacy. It includes public policy ideas that community members are working on and information to help you understand how health, education and social services affect people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).
This web page will be updated througout the legislative session.
About the Notebook:
You can download the December 1, 2025, Legislative Notebook Meeting presentation here. It includes short summaries of the issue proposals, as well as highlights from the IDD Support and Advocacy Survey. You can view the recording here.
Accessible slides available here.
You can view Joanne Woiak’s slides about the preservation of records here.
Scroll down for issue papers and links to data.
Legislative Notebook Meeting Recording
Download One Page Issue Papers for Advocacy!
Below are links to individual one-pagers or short documents that are focused on specific advocacy issues within the IDD community. The issues highlighted here come from across the IDD community, including community members, coalitionsm and organizations. They propose legislation to improve services or support. Each document lists the groups working on the issue and a contact person. They are not necessarily endorsed by The Arc of Washington or the Community Advocacy Coalition.
This year, issues fall into these categories:
- Protect Disability Rights
- Protect Disability Services
- Protect Community Living
- Eliminate the Community Protection Program (Office of DD Ombuds)
- End Isolation, Restrict Restraint in Schools (The Arc of King County/ODMF)
- Protect immigrant and refugee families with I/DD from discrimination and guarantee access to needed supports and services (Washington Multicultural Services Link)
- Address systemic anti-Black discrimination (Washington Multicultural Link)
- Preserve & Make Available historical records at Lakeland Village (The Arc of Washington)
