Disability Policy Consortium

The mission of the Disability Policy Consortium (DPC) is to promote inclusion, independence, and empowerment of persons with disabilities through community organizing and advocacy. As a broad-based community organization run by and for people with physical, sensory, cognitive and psychiatric disabilities, we focus on organizing, activism and leadership development to promote civil rights, independent living, economic opportunity, and social equality. An estimated 22% of Massachusetts residents have some form of physical, sensory, cognitive or psychiatric disability. As a community, people with disabilities are among the most economically disadvantaged, least educated, and most unemployed of minority groups. We face barriers of prejudice and fear, lack of physical and communications access to healthcare, and other barriers leave people with disabilities and their families at the margins of society. The DPC organizes and advocates at all levels of community and state systems for an underserved population: people with disabilities. The DPC’s approach to community organizing and civic engagement encompasses all areas that the organization focuses on.