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Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities- Tampa Office
Date of Release: 10/21/2008
Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities- Tampa Office
1000 North Ashley Drive
Suite 513, Times Building
Tampa, FL 33602
Main Phone: (813) 233-2920
Main Phone: (866) 875-1794
TTD: (866) 875-1837
Fax number: (813) 233-2917
Eligibility: Open
Area Served: Statewide
E-Mail address: info@advocacycenter.org
Internet Site: http://www.advocacycenter.org/
Program Description: The Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities Inc., is a non-profit organization providing protection and advocacy services in the State of Florida. The Center's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, self-determination and expressed choices of individuals with disabilities. The Center promotes, expands, protects and seeks to assure the human and legal rights of people through the provision of information and advocacy. The Center will carry out its mission with the involvement of individuals with disabilities. The Center is committed to assuring community inclusion with adequate supports for all individuals with disabilities and will be at the forefront of protecting this right. The Center also monitors the quality of residential and support services to individuals with disabilities. The monitoring may be on-site, talking with individuals receiving services and/or reviewing information from other agencies. The information gathered is used to advocate for individuals and push systemic reform in an effort to assure their civil and legal rights are protected.
