Rights Here, Rights Now! is a disAbility Law Center of Virginia podcast. The disAbility Law Center of Virginia is the protection and advocacy agency for people with disabilities in Virginia.

Episode Transcription:

Hi everyone and welcome to Rights Here, Rights Now, we are a disAbility Law Center of Virginia podcast. This is our sneak peek teaser trailer episode about what we’re hoping to bring to you and what we’d like to do in the future. Yeah, we want to give you tasty little morsels of education and information about the rights of Virginians with disabilities, how you can advocate for yourself and how you can get help if you find yourself in a tough situation. Rights here, Rights now is going to be a podcast about advocacy, it's going to be about resources, it's going to be about what we as the disAbility Law Center are doing, big cases successes and ways to assist people with disabilities with all sorts of different issues.Yeah, We hope this is also a fun place for you to get your information. And we hope that you’ll join me Virginia Pharis, me Ren Faszewski every other week for a little run down of a disability topic. Some of those topics may include seclusion and restraint in schools,or special education or, abuse and neglect in nursing homes or how do I apply for social security, or other resources in the community. Most importantly maybe, we want to let you know that DLCV is hosting a super special contest around this podcast, we want you, yes you, dear listener, to submit your idea for a logo and/or a jingle for this podcast . You can find out more information on our website which is dlcv.org and our social media. Do it, show us your artwork, show us your music, we’re here for it, we’re excited for it. And absolutely if you have any ideas or any particular topics that you would love for us to talk about you can submit those at podcast@dlcv.org. we hope to talk to you very soon in your earbuds and in your hearts and souls so again, stay tuned for Rights Here, Rights Now.

Interview with the Department of Blind and Vision Impaired

Rights Here, Rights Now!By disAbility Law Center of VAAug 24, 2021