Program
DBTAC: Pacific ADA Center
The Pacific ADA Center (Pacific Disability and Business Technical Assistance Center - DBTAC) works to build a partnership between the disability and business communities and to promote full and unrestricted participation in society for persons with disabilities through education and technical assistance.
Projects
Community and Work Participation Disparities: A Program of the ADA Participatory Action Research Consortium
The Pacific ADA Center, under a subaward agreement with The Institute for Rehabilitation Research (TIRR), will coordinate with the participating ADA Centers to collect data and assist with data analysis and development of indicators of community and work participation disparities for people with disabilities. The Pacific ADA Center will also disseminate the findings back to the community.
DBTAC: Pacific ADA Center Research Progam
DBTAC: Pacific ADA Center is incorporating a high-quality, scientifically based research program into the center's existing dissemination, training and technical assistance efforts. This will generate new data and models that can inform the disability field, especially in the area of employment, while enhancing the center's service and support activities.
Emergency Personal Assistance Services for the Disabled in the 21st Century
The Center on Disability at PHI will provide technical assistance to the Center on Personal Assistance Services to conduct critical research on strategies to provide emergency personal assistance services to people with disabilities, and will disseminate the research findings.
Pacific ADA Center
The three goals for the Pacific ADA Center are to improve: 1) understanding regarding rights and responsibilities and implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act; 2) understanding of ADA stakeholders' needs for, and receipt of, Region IX services over time; and 3) the efficiency and effectiveness of ADA information dissemination, awareness and referral activities.