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Colorado Caucuses on Tuesday

February 28, 2016 by admin Leave a Comment

Colorado Caucuses on Tuesday! Go to your local caucus to vote for your preferred candidates. Caucuses are also a time to shape party platforms. Please introduce this resolution at your caucus to make Colorado a place where disabled parents do not face discrimination.
 
2016 Caucus Resolution
 
Because over 80% of parents involved in the child welfare system have one or more disabilities; and
 
Because disability status is not a predictor of parental fitness; and
 
Because Colorado statutes allow disability as a separate and distinct basis upon which the state may seize and detain children and terminate parental rights; and
 
Because the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits this type of discrimination on the basis of disability;
 
Be it resolved that Colorado should adopt an act to preserve families that include a parent with a disability by eliminating disability as a reason to terminate parental rights, and instead focus those statutes on parental actions or inactions that create unsafe homes for children.
You can download the resolution at this link.

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Internet Resources

  • ABA Center on Children and the Law
  • Disabled Parents Network
  • Invisible Children's Project
  • MS Moms
  • Parents with Disabilities Online
  • RISE magazine — By and for parents in the child welfare system
  • Rocking the Cradle: Ensuring the Rights of Parents with Disabilities and Their Children
  • The Association for Successful Parenting
  • Through the Looking Glass

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