Our Mission
To ensure that people with disabilities are treated as equals and that they are given the same decisions, choices, rights, responsibilities, and chances to speak up to empower themselves; opportunities to make new friends, and to learn from their mistakes.
Featured Projects
GoVoter
SABE’s GoVoter project collects stories that identify issues with voting for people with disabilities. GoVoter provides assistance to improve the voting experiences of voters with disabilities, and increase the number of voters with disabilities through training using the GoVoter Toolkit.
Go Voter hosts four annual webinars to teach self advocacy leaders and P&A staff how to use the SABE GoVoter Toolkit. This “distance training” has been provided in more than 13 states. P&As and Self Advocacy groups use the GoVoter Voter Experience Survey to gather personal experiences of voters with developmental disabilities.
Self Advocacy Resource and Technical Assistance Center (SARTAC)
Self Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE) has been awarded a grant from the Administration for Community Living to establish the first-ever national Self Advocacy Resource and Technical Assistance Center (SARTAC).
The mission of SARTAC is to strengthen the self-advocacy movement by supporting self advocacy organizations to grow in diversity and leadership.
2018 Support Needs of People with I/DD and Co-Occurring Mental Health Challenges and their Families
Self Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE) partnered with Boston University and The Arc. This partnership set out to learn more about the experiences and needs of young adults with I/DD and mental health challenges while accessing and using mental health services. Based on the survey and sessions, the partnership identified 8 priority topic areas for service providers, health systems, and researchers to further examine. Please click on the link to learn more.
Improving Research and Practice: Priorities for Young Adults with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health Needs
This article is about how the Intellectual and Developmental Disability Mental Health (IDD-MH) Research Partnership was created to learn about the experiences and needs of young adults with IDD-MH while accessing and using mental health services.
These recommendations highlight the importance of community-based options, choice, autonomy, and control for young adults with IDD-MH.
This month, Einstein Medical Center became one of the first hospitals in the region and one of few in the nation, to install electronic kiosks that allow anybody — patients, visitors or staff — to check their voter registration status and register to vote. The initiative is called VotER. Unlike other existing voter registration programs offered in hospitals and other healthcare spaces, VotER is digital, voluntary, and does not require the involvement of hospital staff, limiting any interference with patient care.
You can read more here: https://www.phillymag.com/healthcare-news/2020/01/22/the-emergency-room-is-the-new-place-to-register-to-vote/
Recent SABE News
SARTAC is Recruiting Self-Advocates for Policy Leadership Fellowships
The SARTAC Fellowship Opportunity has now closed. Fellowship Awards will be announced by the middle of May 2017. Thanks to everyone who summited an SARTAC Fellowship Application. Stay tuned, a new group of fellows will be chosen next year applications will be available after January 2018.
Where can you register to Vote
Learn where to vote from our friends at the Election Assistance Commission. They have many other voting resources on their site. In honor of the National Voter Registration Day, September 29, 2016, we are sharing this link. Pick your state to find the Secretary of State or Election board to complete your registration and your polling location.
Upcoming SABE Events
SABE July 2020 Board Meeting
8:00am - 5:00pm @ Home2
We will be staying at the Home2 Hotel in Denver, Colorado The room rate is $189 plus 15.75% SABE Executive Thursday, July 23, 9am to 5pm…