Priorities

CLIENT SERVICE PRIORITIES

The Hawaii Disability Rights Center develops annual client service priorities to determine issues that are given preference in our application, screening and selection process.

HDRC recognizes that:

• The concerns of protection and advocacy (P&A) system constituents are critical to the development of its priorities
• Federal statutes and regulations allow wide latitude in the development of the P&A system’s priorities
• Resources of the system are limited

HDRC client services priorities are:

• Compatible with HDRC’s mission and values
• Compatible with HDRC’s client eligibility requirements
• Compatible with HDRC’s areas of expertise
• Consistent with HDRC’s funding requirements
• Of probable significant individual and/or systemic impact for people with disabilities
• Feasible – at a cost within HDRC’s resources
• Unmet by other organizations

It is the policy of HDRC, as required in our federal mandates, to conduct an annual 60-day public comment period in July and August, to solicit comments and recommendations from our constituency and from the community on those issues which should be client service priorities for the Center.