It's important for people with disabilities to live in our communities. But it’s harder for disabled people of color to access community living. There are barriers. The barriers come from policies that make our communities unfair to people of color. These barriers are caused by racism. Racism affects policies about dealing with emergencies, police violence, housing, and more. “Crisis in our Communities: Racial Disparities in Community Living” explains how policy choices, now and in the past, keep disabled people of color from accessing community living.

This toolkit begins by talking about what racial disparities are. It explains how policies cause racial disparities in emergency management, employment, community supports, the criminal legal system, housing, and health care. It also talks about how we can start to fix inequality in each of these areas. The toolkit is available in Easy Read and plain language. You can find both of these materials here [[link removed]] .

We hope you’ll use this toolkit in your advocacy, and share it widely. It’s important to keep talking about community living, the barriers that disabled people of color face, and what we can do to change them!


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