What’s New
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Defending Access
This toolkit equips advocates with practical strategies and tools to ensure survivors with disabilities can access the support and justice they deserve.
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Left Behind
Our Left Behind report exposes how survivors with disabilities are trafficked, overlooked, and too often denied protection — and what must change
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Overrepresented + Overlooked
Our report exposes how people with disabilities are disproportionately impacted by local criminal legal systems—and offers solutions for equity and reform.
Our Mission
Activating Change works to end the widespread victimization and mass incarceration of people with disabilities and Deaf people by raising awareness, transforming narratives, strengthening movements and organizations, and uplifting the leadership of people with disabilities and Deaf people while providing direct services that restore dignity, safety, and healing.
Our Program Areas
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Creating Pathways to Healing
We partner with communities to remove barriers, build new pathways, and develop disability-centered, trauma-informed approaches that place survivors at the heart of safety and healing.
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Expanding Deaf Services
We help Deaf survivors access victim services in ASL by providing direct support, growing Deaf-led programs, and breaking barriers in hearing programs.
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Ending Mass Incarceration
We confront the drivers of incarceration for people with disabilities by supporting system-impacted leaders, advancing reform, and creating accessible off-ramps into community.
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