Disability Rights Oregon 2017 Community Insights Survey

Disability Rights Oregon 2017 Community Insights Survey Insights Survey Disability Rights Oregon's mission is to promote and defend the rights of individuals with disabilities. We envision a society in which persons with disabilities have equality of opportunity, full participation, and the ability to exercise meaningful choice.

Every year, we gather feedback from Oregonians about the needs of people with disabilities. This input shapes our decisions about how to best focus our resources in the coming year.

Your insights and ideas are important to us. You can share your feedback through this 10-15 minute survey. Thank you for taking the time to share your comments. We appreciate all that you do to help uphold the rights of people with disabilities.

The link to this survey is also available online on our website: www.droregon.org If you need an alternate format to complete this survey, please contact us at (503) 243-2081 or 1 (800) 452-1694 or [email protected]. Thank you for your time.

Please return completed surveys to:

Mail or in person: Disability Rights Oregon 610 SW Broadway, Suite 200 Portland, OR 97205

Fax: 503-243-1738

Email: [email protected]

Disability Rights Oregon is the Protection & Advocacy System for Oregon.

1. In your own words, how would you describe what we do?

DRO SERVICE AREAS

2. Please rate the importance to you and/or your family of each of the following issues as they impact people with disabilities:

Un- Extremely important important 1 2 3 4 5 Being safe from abuse and neglect Getting and keeping housing Getting a good education  Seeing a doctor/getting medical care Getting public services and supports Rights and safety in institutions Right to register and vote Getting and keeping a job Honoring individual decision- making Physical access Being able to use transportation Being part of the community Other (please specify below)

3. Which issue do you most strongly associate DRO with?

___ Getting public services and supports ___ Being able to use transportation ___ Getting and keeping housing ___ Getting a good education ___ Honoring individual decision-making ___ Getting and keeping a job ___ Rights and safety in institutions ___ Being safe from abuse and neglect ___ Seeing a doctor/getting medical care ___ Being part of the community ___ Right to register and vote ___ Physical access ___ Other (please specify below)

4. What is the biggest problem faced by people with disabilities that you would like to see Disability Rights Oregon address?

5. I am most interested in issues affecting individuals with the following disabilities (select all that apply)

___ Deaf or hard of hearing ___ Blind or sight impairment ___ Physical disability ___ Cognitive disability ___ Psychiatric disability ___ Intellectual/developmental disability ___ Traumatic brain injury ___ Learning disability ___ Other (please specify) ______

ATTITUDES AND TYPES OF SERVICES

6. Please rate your agreement with the following statements: Strongly Strongly Disagree Agree 1 2 3 4 5 The rights of individuals with disabilities is an important issue to Oregonians Oregon government is responsive to the needs of people with disabilities. I believe disability rights is an important issue in Oregon The voices of people with disabilities are heard in Oregon government.

7. Please rate how useful you feel each of the following types of DRO services and advocacy are: Extremely Not useful useful 1 2 3 4 5 Helping people one at a time with individual legal problems Doing work that helps many people by advocating for changes in the law Conducting training for providers and policymakers Raising public awareness of the rights of people with disabilities Providing self-help materials for self-advocacy and information and referral Conducting training for self- advocacy and information and referral Other (please specify )

8. Which DRO services and advocacy would you like to learn more about?

DRO SERVICES

9. Have you received services from Disability Rights Oregon? ___ Yes ___ No

If you have received services from Disability Rights Oregon, please complete this section. If not, then please skip to page 7.

10. How recently did you receive services from Disability Rights Oregon?

11. How satisfied were you with the services you received from Disability Rights Oregon Very Slightly Unsure or Very Satisfied dissatisfied dissatisfied neutral satisfied

12. What type of services did you receive from Disability Rights Oregon? (Check all that apply) ___ Spoke with an attorney or advocate about my issue ___ Met with a Certified Work Incentives Coordinator about Social Security work incentives planning ___ Used information from the DRO website ___ Worked with an attorney or advocate on a legal matter ___ Received information from staff to conduct my own advocacy ___ Attended a DRO presentation and/or rights training ___ Other: ______

13. How successfully was your issue resolved after contacting or working with Disability Rights Oregon? ___ There was no change ___ Partially resolved ___ Completely resolved ___ Not sure or not applicable

14. What was the result?

COMMUNICATIONS

15. How did you first learn about DRO?

16. Where do you get most of your local news from? ___ Radio ___ Newspapers or magazines ___ Websites ___ Social media (Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, WhatsApp, Tumblr) ___ TV ___ Other (please specify)

17. Where do you usually learn about DRO’s work? ___ Media (TV, radio, print, or online) ___ Email from DRO ___ Social media (Facebook or Twitter) ___ Word of mouth ___ Other (please specify)

DEMOGRAPHICS The following demographic questions are optional and will be used to help us improve our services. Your answers are anonymous.

18. Which of the following describes you? (Select all that apply) ___ Person with a disability ___ Family member of a person with a disability ___ Provider of disability-related services ___ Community volunteer with disability-related organization or cause ___ Other (please specify) ______

19. Your county: ______

20: Your age: ______

21. Your gender identity:

___ Female ___ Male ___ Trans woman/MTF spectrum ___ Trans man/FTM spectrum ___ Gender non-conforming ___ Nonbinary ___ Genderqueer ___ Other ______

22. Your sexual orientation:

___ Bisexual ___ Gay ___ Lesbian ___ Queer ___ Straight ___ Other ______

23. Your racial and/or ethnic identity: ___ Native American ___ Asian Indian ___ Alaska Native ___ Other Asian ___ Canadian Inuit, Metis, or First Nation ___ Native Hawaiian ___ Indigenous Mexican, Central American, ___ Guamanian or Chamorro or South American ___ Samoan ___ Hispanic or Latino Mexican ___ Other Pacific Islander ___ Hispanic or Latino Central American ___ African American ___ Hispanic or Latino South American ___ African ___ Other Hispanic or Latino ___ Caribbean ___ Chinese ___ Other Black ___ Vietnamese ___ Western European ___ Korean ___ Eastern European ___ South Asian ___ Slavic ___ Unknown ___ Northern African ___ Other (please specify) ______

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Thank you for your time and your insights.