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Direct Advocacy
We help people and families understand services, organize information, and work through barriers affecting their goals.
The Disabled Dream
The freedom for people with disabilities to shape their lives, pursue their goals, and build the futures they choose.
Beyond The Box Advocacy works to make that freedom possible through better disability policy and stronger systems.
Systems for Life
The policies people rely on should support education, work, relationships, mobility, financial security, community, and everyday life.
It means being able to take a job, go to school, move closer to someone you love, build financial security, participate in your community, and make decisions about what comes next. Disability policy plays a powerful role in whether people have that freedom.
Learn About The Disabled DreamAbout Our Work
We connect lived experience with policy analysis to identify where disability systems create limits and where change can expand people's choices.
Learn More About UsWhat We Do
Our work spans direct advocacy, policy and research, public engagement, and systems strategy.
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Policy and Research
We study recurring gaps in disability services and develop policy ideas for stronger continuity, portability, and access.
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Public Engagement
Writing, speaking, storytelling, and education connect policy decisions with the ways they shape daily life.
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Systems Strategy
We advise organizations on access, accountability, program design, and the real-world effects of policy choices.
Policy in Practice
Our research examines how disability policy shapes the choices people can make about where they live, work, study, travel, and participate in their communities.
Explore Policy and ResearchPolicy Framework
Disability Support Service Portability
Keeping essential supports more consistent across geographic lines, temporary travel, relocation, and major life changes.
Research Focus
Geographic Lock-In
Examining how location-based rules can influence where people live, work, study, travel, and build relationships.
Policy Framework
Enforced Barriers
Identifying barriers created or reinforced through policy, procedures, and administrative practices.
Systems Model
Structural Model of Disability
Looking at how policy design shapes the choices and opportunities available to people with disabilities.
Explore Our Resources
Our library brings together research, federal guidance, data, and plain language explanations on disability policy and community living.
Browse ResourcesGet Involved
Share your experience, contribute to research, collaborate on advocacy, or stay connected to the work.
Get InvolvedPartner With Us
We collaborate with organizations, researchers, advocates, policymakers, funders, universities, and community groups on projects aligned with our mission.