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What is Assistive Technology? What is Medicaid? What is Medicaire? What is Special Education? Who can Serve as a Guardian? What is Vocational Rehabilitation? ~Quesitions asked and answered in Your Rights as a Vermonter with TBI |
DRVT Publications
You may open, download and print all our publications or you may order them from Disability Rights Vermont if you need larger quantities. All of our publications are free of charge for individuals. All of the publications listed below are in .pdf format.
Originally Published September 2006
Updated Edition Published July 2009 supported by the Social Security administration (SSA).
In November of 2003 an exciting and motivated group of people with disabilities came together to share their personal stories, their sources of strength and their tricks-of-the-trade for living with disabilities. They were supported and encouraged by staff of Disability Rights Vermont and the Vermont Center for Independent Living, largely folks with disabilities themselves.
Taking Charge: Tools and Tips from the Self-Help & Psychiatric Survivor Movement in Vermont
Originally Published in 2002
Updated Edition Published in 2007 supported by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Vermont Bar Foundation.
This book was conceived, dreamed up, and nagged into being by a group of psychiatric survivors who wanted Vermont Protection and Advocacy (P&A) now Disability Rights Vermont to create a self help and survival guide for individuals with psychiatric disabilities. It took a long time to be born.
TBI: Traumatic Brain Injury; Your Rights as a Vermonter with a Traumatic Brain Injury
Originally Published in 2007
Updated Edition Published in 2010 supported by the Dept. of Health and Human Services.
This book was the result of a collaboration between the staff of Vermont Legal Aid and Disability Rights Vermont and is used for a series of legal clinics around the state. This book won the 2008 most popular grant product award. It is a comprehensive guide for people living with a Traumatic Brain Injury in Vermont covering subjects such as: health care programs and services, abuse and neglect, employment, guardianship, social security benefits, etc...
Your Rights as a Vermonter Diagnosed as Having a Mental Illness
Originally Published in 2001
Updated Edition Published in 2010 supported by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Vermont Bar Foundation.
If you are receiving some type of mental health treatment and/or have been diagnosed as a person with a mental illness you do not lose any civil or human rights. Many people incorrectly believe they lose their rights because of a mental illness diagnosis or because they are being held for treatment. This booklet is written to provide you with information so that you can know, exercise, and protect your rights.
2010 Voter's Guide for People with Disabilities
Originally Published in 2008
Updated Edition Published in 2010 supported by the Dept. of Health and Human Services under the Help America Vote Act.
Disability Rights Vermont, Inc. (DRVT) is an agency that received money from the U. S. Congress under HAVA to help make sure people with disabilities get the information they need to vote and are not discriminated against when casting their ballots. This guide is one project DRVT is doing to provide that help. In it you will find information about your rights as a voter. You also will find information for each of the offices to which we elect people, for example, the Governor.
