AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES
• Ensure access to, and fully fund, home and community-based long-term care services.
• Eliminate the legal exceptions that allow employers to pay some disabled workers less than
minimum wage.
• Reverse the requirement that private entities be given notice and the opportunity to cure
access violations under the Arizonans with Disabilities Act before a person can sue.
• Consider alternatives to guardianship, such as supported decision making, which safeguard
disabled people’s fundamental rights while allowing them assistance from trusted others
when making important life decisions.
• Provide social-service support rather than relying on an armed police response to individuals experiencing a mental health crisis.
• Ensure that governments have the resources to plan for disabled people’s needs in public
health and safety emergencies.
• Fund special education so that students with disabilities can learn in the most inclusive
environment possible, with access to appropriate adaptive technology.
• Expand access to vocational rehabilitation programs.
• Offer employers financial incentives, such as tax breaks, to hire disabled people.
• Improve and expand affordable public transportation so that people with disabilities can use it safely and conveniently.
• Secure disabled people's reproductive and child-rearing rights and choices.
A UCP of Southern Arizona employment services program. WorkAbility is an individualized and supportive employment program dedicated to teaching and preparing people with disabilities for competitive, integrated and sustainable work opportunities in the Tucson area. We also help with resume building, job searching, interview strategies, assist with job placement, and more.
In 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was established to ensure inclusive equal opportunity for persons with disabilities in all aspects of American life. The ADA prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability and provides for equal access to education, housing, transportation, health care and employment.The ADA prohibits discrimination:
in employment (Title I)
in the provision of State and local government programs, services and benefits (Title II)
by private business and other entities that operate places of “public accommodation” (Title III)
provisions for the deaf, hard of hearing and speech impaired (Title IV)
The ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA) went into effect on January 1, 2009. According to Congress, the ADAAA was passed “to carry out the ADA’s objectives of providing a clear and comprehensive national mandate for the elimination of discrimination’ and ‘clear, strong, consistent, enforceable standards addressing discrimination’ by reinstating a broad scope of protection to be available under the ADA.”
By breaking down and eliminating barriers, individuals with disabilities have equal opportunity to participate in all aspects of community life. Most of all, the ADA enables society as a whole, and the Pima County community specifically, to benefit from the skills, talents, gifts and other contributions of individuals with disabilities. Pima County Government is committed to ensuring that the terms and conditions mandated by the ADA as amended are enforced within the County’s level of authority and within its jurisdiction.
Pima County employees who wish to discuss a reasonable accommodation for their workplace, Pima County applicants who require special testing accommodations and members of the general public who have questions or concerns about access for disabled individuals are encouraged to contact the Pima County ADA Coordinator. For additional information see Board of Supervisors Policy D.30.2 and Administrative Procedure 23-29.
Ensure access to, and fully fund, home and community-based long-term care services.
• Eliminate the legal exceptions that allow employers to pay some disabled workers less than
minimum wage.
• Reverse the requirement that private entities be given notice and the opportunity to cure
access violations under the Arizonans with Disabilities Act before a person can sue.
• Consider alternatives to guardianship, such as supported decision making, which safeguard
disabled people’s fundamental rights while allowing them assistance from trusted others
when making important life decisions.
• Provide social-service support rather than relying on an armed police response to individuals
experiencing a mental health crisis.
• Ensure that governments have the resources to plan for disabled people’s needs in public
health and safety emergencies.
• Fund special education so that students with disabilities can learn in the most inclusive
environment possible, with access to appropriate adaptive technology.
• Expand access to vocational rehabilitation programs.
• Offer employers financial incentives, such as tax breaks, to hire disabled people.
• Improve and expand affordable public transportation so that people with disabilities can use
it safely and conveniently.
• Secure disabled people's reproductive and child-rearing rights and choices.