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#RightToParent - Share Your Story!

Parents with Disabilities & Deaf/HoH Parents: Share Your Story!

Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council (INSILC) is collecting stories from biological, adoptive and foster Hoosier parents with disabilities and Deaf/HoH Hoosier Parents who have experienced discrimination on the basis of their disability!

Stories are a powerful advocacy tool! Data, expert opinions, and research only tell half of the story. YOUR personal stories will further explain the discriminatory problems and barriers Hoosier parents with disabilities and Deaf/HoH parents face when raising their families. Individual stories can help bring to life these issues and are powerfully persuasive with the potential to create positive change. 

Hoosier parents with disabilities and Deaf/HoH Hoosier parents have a #RightToParent free from fear and discrimination. We need state legislators to acknowledge and better understand the discrimination Hoosier parents with disabilities and Deaf/HoH Hoosier parents are experiencing and the traumatic impact this is having on their families. Your stories can help make this happen and help to persuade legislators to establish a law protecting your family and your fellow Hoosier parents with disabilities and Deaf/HoH Hoosier parents from harmful discrimination. 

This collection of stories is part of a collaborative effort to pass Indiana Senate Bill 312 - Parents with Disabilities, sometimes referred to as a “parental rights bill”. 

Indiana Senate Bill 312: 
  1. Acknowledges that biological, adoptive and foster parents with disabilities have a right to be free from discrimination in parenting;
  2. Allows past discriminatory charges or findings made by the Indiana Department of Child Services against a parent solely on the basis of their disability to be expunged;
  3. Mandates disability awareness training for the Indiana Department of Child Services.

Learn more about Indiana Senate Bill 312 here: http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/312

ACCESSIBILITY NOTE: If you prefer another option to share your story that is more accessible for you, please contact INSILC at ShareYourStory@insilc.org or call INSILC at (844) 446-7452.

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