Disability Rights New Mexico/

Disability Rights New Mexico

To ensure COVID safety, the office is closed to walk-ins but is continuing to provide services by phone.

Programs:

• Developmental Disabilities: Provides advocacy services to persons who have severe disabilities which occur or develop before age 22 and who need individually planned services and supports.
• Client Assistance Program (CAP): Advocates for people who have questions or concerns about the services offered by Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, the Commission for the Blind, and Centers for Independent Living.
• Mental Health: Promotes and protects the rights of persons diagnosed as mentally ill or emotionally disturbed who live in or have recently left a facility providing services or treatment. Also helps persons who are receiving mental health services in the community.
• Protection and Advocacy for Beneficiaries of Social Security (PABSS): Promotes and protects the rights of persons with disabilities who receive SSI/SSDI and who want to return to work. The goal is to overcome barriers to maintaining employment or to return to work.
• Protection and Advocacy for Individual Rights: (PAIR) Protects and promotes the rights of persons with severe disabilities who are not eligible for other P&A programs. The focus of the project is on the federal and state laws establishing rights for people with disabilities, which are listed on the next page.