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Hospital-Based Advocates Continue Supporting People with Disabilities During the Pandemic

by Caleb Baker | Mar 28, 2022 | Inpatient Psychiatric Settings & Group Homes

Disability Rights Maine’s four hospital-based advocates have a unique role among DRM staff. We get to meet with patients of Maine’s largest psychiatric hospitals and find ways to protect their rights as recipients of mental health services. There are DRM offices...

Now is the time to end the discriminatory use of abbreviated school days in Maine

by Guest Author | Jan 25, 2022 | Children's & Education Rights

Maine students with disabilities are routinely subjected to abbreviated school days due to disability-related behaviors. While federal law requires that schools provide supportive services when a student’s disability-related behaviors interfere with their learning or...

Voting Access a Work in Progress for People with Disabilities

by Guest Author | Sep 21, 2021 | Voting

Disability rights activist Justin Dart once said, “vote as if your life depends on it because it does.” Americans have been fighting for their right to vote since the founding of this country. From the elimination of literacy tests and poll taxes, to the passage of...

“I Don’t Wanna Be So D**n Protected”

by Guest Author | Jul 23, 2021 | Alternatives to Guardianship & Supported Decision-Making, Success Stories

Mikala Bolmer, DRM Intern, Student at University of Maine School of Law Britney Spears’ high-profile, protracted, legal battle contesting her conservatorship (known as guardianship in Maine) sheds light on the role of conservatorship/guardianship as an excessive limit...

The Law Court’s Decision in A.S. v. LincolnHealth and Its Impact on Maine’s “Blue Paper” Law (34-B M.R.S.A. § 3863)

by Mark Joyce | Jun 4, 2021 | Inpatient Psychiatric Settings & Group Homes, Success Stories

In January of this year Maine’s highest state court, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, also known as the “Law Court”, issued a decision called A.S. v. LincolnHealth.[1] This decision had a substantial impact on the process used to hold someone in a general hospital’s...

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Hospital-Based Advocates Continue Supporting People with Disabilities During the Pandemic

Now is the time to end the discriminatory use of abbreviated school days in Maine

Voting Access a Work in Progress for People with Disabilities

“I Don’t Wanna Be So D**n Protected”

The Law Court’s Decision in A.S. v. LincolnHealth and Its Impact on Maine’s “Blue Paper” Law (34-B M.R.S.A. § 3863)

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