NJCDD provides advocacy training and support to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to influence NJ policies and systems positively.

Community Advocacy

NJCDD Self Advocates often reach out and work with government representatives on issues that concern the developmental disabilities community. Some of the successful community advocacy projects that self advocates have…

Self-Advocate

Self-Advocate ResourcesIt is important to learn self-advocacy skills because it helps people with developmental disabilities decide what they want and what is possible for them to expect. Having good self-advocacy…

People First NJ

Advocacy By and For People with Disabilities People First is the major self-advocacy organization in the US currently in 29 states, as well as in Canada, the UK, Germany, New…

Emergency Preparedness

The New Jersey Council on Developmental Disabilities recognizes that it is important for people with developmental disabilities – particularly those living in independent living or group home arrangements – to…

Voting Rights

Voting is a way to decide what a group wants or who the group wants to represent them. We vote for President, Governor, Mayor, Town Council Members, State Legislators such…

Be Heard Be Counted

The NJCDD encourages people with developmental disabilities to take a committed interest in how our society works. Like all citizens, people with developmental disabilities have a right and a responsibility…