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Area Boards were created by state law in 1969 to ensure that people with developmental disabilities and their families get the services they need. The mission of the Area Board is to protect and advocate for the civil, legal, and service rights of persons with developmental disabilities, and to ensure that the support and services they receive are of the highest possible quality.
Area Boards are federally funded affiliated offices of the California State Council on Developmental Disabilities.
Because of the vast size, complexity, and diversity of the State of California, the Legislature finds that the legal, civil, and service rights of persons with developmental disabilities will not be adequately guaranteed throughout the state unless monitoring responsibility is established on a regional basis through area boards on developmental disabilities.
-Lanterman Act, 1977
IF YOU FEEL YOUR RIGHTS
OR THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER,
ARE BEING VIOLATED,
CALL AREA BOARD 10
818-543-4631
Unfortunately, Californian legislators recently decided to implement a $234 million cut to regional center services, IN ADDITION to the $100 million cut already made. It has not yet been decided how to implement these cuts, although the
Department of Developmental Services (DDS) has made suggestions.
Please review our suggestions on how the impact of these cuts may be minimized in affecting people with developmental disabilities and write your legislator and other key people
to request they support the suggestions with which you agree.
DDS was required to give the California Legislature a report with proposals for how they can cut $100 million from the current budget. After holding meetings and receiving public input, they have written the report
and the Legislature has approved the 15 proposals contained in it. These proposals will now go into effect by July 1, 2009. You may contact our office for information about these changes.
Area Board 10 staff are available to meet with self-advocacy and parent support groups to explain the changes that are going into effect and how they will impact your services.
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