Change in disability policy grows through research, advocacy, lived experience, public understanding, and people who choose to participate. There are many ways to contribute to the work of Beyond The Box Advocacy.
You can contribute your experience, expertise, time, connections, or platform. Each form of participation can help strengthen the ideas, evidence, and public understanding behind disability policy change.
Your experiences with disability services can help reveal patterns that deserve closer attention. We welcome stories about moving, travel, service interruptions, Medicaid, home and community-based services, administrative barriers, work, education, and other changes in life.
Researchers, students, practitioners, and community members can contribute ideas, sources, data, and subject-matter knowledge that deepen our understanding of disability policy and service continuity.
Advocates and community organizations can connect with us around recurring policy problems, emerging issues, and opportunities to strengthen disability services and accountability.
Conferences, classrooms, community gatherings, panels, and public programs can create space for clearer conversations about disability policy and the lives those policies shape.
Our resource library brings together research, federal guidance, data, and plain language explanations. Sharing these materials can help more people understand disability policy and the questions behind current systems.
Follow our work, return to the resource library, and reach out when you encounter a policy question or experience that connects with our focus. Staying connected helps build a stronger community around the Disabled Dream.
If you share a personal experience with us, you can tell us how you are comfortable having that information used. We will ask for clear permission before identifying you or sharing your story publicly.