April 26, 2023 | Issue 38

New 3-Part Webinar Series!

Know Your Rights: VR Services and Tuition

Join the Employment Team at Disability Rights NJ for a new 3-part series created for students with disabilities and their parents. This series will walk you through your rights to vocational rehabilitation services, show you how to apply for benefits, explain the eligibility process, and how to request tuition sponsorship to support your employment goals.

Monday, May 15 - Your Rights to Vocational Rehabilitation Services

Wednesday, May 17 - Applying for Vocational Rehabilitation Services

Friday, May 19 - Requesting Tuition Sponsorship

All webinars will be held via zoom at 3pm.

Learn more and Register for Webinars

SURVEY: Help Improve Bicycle, Scooter, and Pedestrian Access to Transit

NJ TRANSIT is working to improve access for bicycles, scooters, and pedestrians at all its stations. New Jerseyans are invited to contribute to this effort by participating in NJ TRANSIT's first Bicycle, Scooter, and Pedestrian Access Survey. The survey is open now and runs through the end of National Bike to Work Week, May 15th – May 21st, 2023. Those who complete the survey and provide their contact information will be entered into a drawing for a $100 gift card.

Take the Survey

HOW WE HELP

Disability Rights New Jersey, a nonprofit organization, is dedicated to advancing and protecting the human, civil, and legal rights of people with disabilities.

We aggressively investigate reports of abuse and neglect wherever a person with a disability may be receiving services.

We thoroughly monitor facilities and community-based programs to ensure that people living in those facilities and using those services are free from abuse and neglect, and that their rights are not violated.

We provide legal representation, without charge, to people with disabilities in cases that fall within our priority setting process.

We are dedicated to providing education, training, and technical assistance to people with disabilities, their families and advocates, the agencies that service them, and policy makers among others.

We provide state-of-the-art access to information and advice about assistive technology.

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Disability Rights NJ is funded by the Department of Health and Human Services: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services - Center for Mental Health Services; Administration for Community Living - Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities; Center for Integrated Programs, through the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, U.S. Department of Education: Rehabilitation Services Administration, and the Social Security Administration

DISABILITY RIGHTS New Jersey | disabilityrightsnj.org

210 South Broad Street, Third Floor

Trenton, New Jersey 08608

1.800.922.7233 (in NJ only) 1.609.292.9742 (Voice)

1.609.777.0187 (Fax) 1.609.633.7106 (TTY)

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New 3-Part Webinar Series!

SURVEY: Help Improve Bicycle, Scooter, and Pedestrian Access to Transit

HOW WE HELP﻿

HOW WE HELP