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Guide to Self-Advocacy

• Guide to Self-Advocacy by the National Mental Health Consumer’s Self-Help Clearinghouse

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

• Information and Technical Assistance on the ADA
  www.ada.gov

• Northwest ADA Center
  www.dbtacnorthwest.org

• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
  Read about the federal laws enforced by the EEOC, including the ADA
  www.eeoc.gov/policy/ada.html

Brain Injury

• Alaska Brain Injury Network
  www.alaskabraininjury.net

Consumer Law

• Alaska Division of Insurance
  https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/web/ins
  
• Consumer Protection Unit of the Attorney General's Office
  www.law.state.ak.us/department/civil/consumer/cpindex.html

Disability Information

• Federal government information on disability programs and services nationwide
  www.usa.gov/disability-services

Employment

• Job Accommodation Network – workplace accommodations for people with disabilities
  www.jan.wvu.edu

If you've been fired from your job and believe it was due to disability-based discrimination, contact the agencies below to see who best has jurisdiction to investigate: 

• U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
  https://www.eeoc.gov/how-file-charge-employment-discrimination
  
  
• Anchorage Equal Rights Commission
  https://www.muni.org/Departments/AERC/Pages/default.aspx
  
  
• Alaska State Commission for Human Rights
  https://humanrights.alaska.gov

General Help Resources in Alaska

• Alaska 211
  www.alaska211.org

Guardianship

• Alaska Office of Public Advocacy
  www.state.ak.us/admin/opa

• Alaska State Association for Guardianship and Advocacy (ASAGA)
  https://asaga.info 

HIPPA Violations

• Health Information Privacy - How to file a complaint
  www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/complaints

Housing

• Fair Housing Project – Alaska Legal Services

  https://www.fairhousingalaska.org

• Alaska Housing Finance Corporation - Rental Assistance
  https://www.ahfc.us/publichousing/rental-programs

• Filing a Building Code Complaint with the Municipality of Anchorage
  http://www.muni.org/Departments/OCPD/development/BSD/Pages/CodeEnforcement.aspx

• Alaska Landlord and Tenant Act
  A Summary of landlord and tenant rights and obligations under Alaska law
  http://www.law.alaska.gov/pdf/consumer/LandlordTenant_web.pdf

Legal Services

• Alaska Legal Services Corporation
  Private, nonprofit law firm that provides free civil legal assistance to low-income Alaskans
  www.alsc-law.org

• Alaska Law Help
  Helping Alaskans find answers to their legal problems
  www.alaskalawhelp.org

• Alaska Court System Self Help Center: Family Law
  http://courts.alaska.gov/shc/family/selfhelp.htm

Mental Health

• National Alliance on Mental Illness
  www.nami.org

Miller Trusts

• State of Alaska Brochure on Miller Trusts
  https://alaskalawhelp.org/resource/medicaid-qualifying-income-trust-miller-trust?ref=62Ry4

Public Assistance

• Alaska Division of Public Assistance
  http://dhss.alaska.gov/dpa/Pages/default.aspx

Representative Payees

• Social Security's Representative Payment Program
  www.ssa.gov/payee

Service Animals

• U.S. Department of Justice
  Commonly Asked Questions About Services Animals
  http://www.ada.gov/qasrvc.htm

Social Security

• Official Website for the U.S. Social Security Administration
  www.ssa.gov

Ticket to Work

• Ticket To Work Program
  Helping Social Security beneficiaries who want to go back to work, but are concerned about losing benefits
  www.ssa.gov/work