California law and regulation requires that regional centers display on their Web sites information about the dollar value of services they purchase for clients. These data (called "purchase of service" or "POS" data) must be reported separately by clients' ethnic/racial group, langauge and diagnosis.
Why Vote? - Members of the ARCA CAC Share What Voting Means to Them, Register to Vote by Oct. 20
The California Foundation for Independent Living Centers through its Disability Organizing Network is hosting a video contest. Groups and individuals were encouraged to submit brief (30 second to 2 minute) videos encouraging individuals with disabilities to vote. The ARCA CAC members decided at their recent meeting that they wanted to participate in the contest and that given the limited allowed length of the video that they each wanted to share why voting is important to them personally. Their video features 13 members of the ARCA CAC expressing in their own words why voting matters to them. The one minute video can be seen here
The deadline to register to vote in the upcoming November elections is October 20, 2014. All necessary information about registering to vote and voting in California is available in the Elections section on the California Secretary of State's Web site.