Database Sheds Light on State’s Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTFs)
This month on Speak Up Arkansas, we’re talking about the Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities, or PRTFs. These facilities are long term residential treatment facilities designed to address mental illness or behavioral health needs for youth under the age of 21. DRA believes all children deserve to be safe and to receive trauma-informed, intensive treatment in […]
Support for Employment, Support for Living: This week on Speak Up Arkansas
Arkansas Employment First is a philosophy that all people with disabilities who are of working age or transition-age youth should have opportunities to work in their own communities, in an integrated setting, for competitive wages. Proponents of Employment First say that this approach ensures that people with disabilities receive better wages, better benefits, improved health, […]
Speak Up Arkansas: Talking self-advocacy, disability rights…and pie
March 14 (3/14…get it?) is Pie Day at the Arkansas State Capitol! Every year since 2019, disability advocates have converged on the Capitol during Developmental Disability Awareness Month. But this event raises more than just awareness: the goal is to provide an opportunity for people with disabilities to build connections with legislators, to advocate for […]
Questions about the COVID-19 vaccine? Ask the doctor!
Got questions about the COVID-19 vaccine? Ask the doctor! On this month’s episode of Speak Up Arkansas, we’ll be speaking with a doctor from the Arkansas Department of Health – and we’ll be asking YOUR questions! To ask a question, comment below or email your Q to info@DisabilityRightsAR.org, with the subject line “Speak Up Arkansas”. […]
Speak Up Arkansas sheds light on the horrors of solitary confinement
Nine out of ten people who spend time in prison in Arkansas eventually return home to their communities to begin a new life. And what happens in prison doesn’t necessarily stay in prison: a person who is released to begin anew brings with him or her the cumulative effects of all they experienced inside prison […]