The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law

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Please join us April 4th at 6PM at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. for our Annual Awards Reception!

Featured Speaker: Vanita Gupta, President and CEO, The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights

Corporation of the Year Award: Ernst & Young, LLP

Outstanding Pro-Bono Lawyer Award: Aaron M. Panner, Partner, Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick, PLLC

Outstanding Pro-Bono Law Firm Award: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

Advocate of the Year: Kathy Flaherty, Executive Director, Connecticut Legal Rights Project

Emerging Young Advocate: Nyamuon Nguany Machar, Cultural Strategist and Advocate, Disability Rights Maine

Please visit our Awards Homepage for more information about this event and how to become a sponsor!

FEATURED WORK

Implementing Endrew

ENDREW AMICUS WORK

We filed an amicus brief in Renee J. v. Houston Independent School District, urging the Fifth Circuit to properly apply the “markedly more demanding” standard for free and appropriate public education announced by the Supreme Court in Endrew F.
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New Case

M.J. v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

We filed a class action lawsuit in federal court challenging the District of Columbia’s failure to provide intensive community-based services, causing hundreds of children to be needlessly institutionalized or at serious risk of institutionalization.
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ADA Guidance

DISABILITY COMMUNITY LETTER

Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) and the Collaboration to Promote Self Determination (CPSD) wrote to the Justice Department to express concern about the Department’s recent withdrawal of a number of guidance and technical assistance documents concerning the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). read more »

BAZELON CENTER AND PARTNERS REACH GROUND-BREAKING SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT WITH STATE OF OHIO IN SPECIAL EDUCATION CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT

A settlement agreement reached in the longstanding Doe v. State of Ohio special education class action lawsuit will improve the academic achievement of students with disabilities, in part by supporting their inclusion in regular classrooms. The settlement is expected over the next five years to improve the state’s support for special education throughout Ohio, as well as create measurable improvements in student performance and inclusion for children with disabilities in 11 of Ohio’s large urban school districts. Disability Rights Ohio (DRO), the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, and the law firm Steptoe & Johnson celebrate this agreement and thank Ohio Governor John Kasich, the Ohio Department of Education and the State School Board for their efforts to arrive at this important outcome. Read more about this case here.