• People with developmental disabilities have a right to live and work in the community of their choice.
• People with developmental disabilities should be provided the same supports necessary to live productive and satisfying lives.
• People with developmental disabilities are valued citizens who enrich the lives of those around them.

• Bring issues to the table for discussion.
• Participate in the discussion of issues.
• Present organization's position on issues, or general thrust of position.
• Present a description of organization's activity on issues.
• Build trust with other members through authentic communication.

• Provide a forum for discussion of issues.
• Establish a process for making decisions.
• Collect enough information to make wise decisions.
• Set an agenda for discussion, decision, action (strategy), evaluation.
• Encourage member organizations to take action on issues.
• Encourage collaboration among CAC members.
• Become accessible to all community advocacy organizations.
• Take direction from people with developmental disabilities.
• Recognize and value each organization's efforts.

• Seek out and move to rectify practices which discriminate against people with developmental disabilities.
• Promote the rights of people with developmental disabilities to be free from discrimination.
• Demand that the service system can be accountable to the people it is designed to serve.
• Challenge policy and practice which does not offer real choice and real power to people with developmental disabilities.
• Work to change the service system to benefit people with developmental disabilities.
• Share our organized power and resources with self-advocates.
• Implement decisions through decisive action(s) and evaluate results.
• Insist that the service system be efficiently administered with the greatest amount of flexibility for people with developmental disabilities.
• Select strategies which will make changes happen.
• Act against changes in the current service system which would negatively impact people with developmental disabilities.
• Broaden activities to include other advocacy groups outside the DD service system who have similar agendas.

CAC 
Member Organizations
Includes e-mail addresses

Arc of Olympic Peninsula
Representative:  Kathy McCurdy

Representative:  Jerome Gee

Community Residential Services Association
(425) 778-1878
Representative:  Sylvia Fuerstenberg

Developmental Disabilities Council
(360) 586-0482 or (800) 634-4473
Representative:  Ed Holen

Disability Rights Washington (DRW) (Formerly WPAS)
(800) 562-2702
Representative:  Phil Jordan or
Representative:  Mark Stroh

Parent Coalition of Jefferson County
(360) 769-2220 or (800) 347-7387
Representative:  Jenell DeMatteo

Parent Coalition of King County 
(425) 746-2178
Representative:  Joanne O'Neill
(425) 883-6721
Representative:  Margaret-Lee Thompson
(425) 641-7879
Representative:  Cathy Murahashi

Parent Coalition of Kitsap County
(360) 769-2220 or (800) 347-7387
Representative:  Nancy Martin

Parent Coalition of Lewis County    
(360) 245-3792
Representative:  Paula Zamudio

Parent Coalition of Snohomish County 
(425) 258-2459
Representative:  Jenifer Nelson

Parent Coalition of Spokane County 
(509) 892-9379
Representative:  Lance Morehouse
(509) 328-6326
Representative:  David Thorngate

Parent Coalition of Yakima County 
(509) 966-0625
Representative:  VACANT

Partnership 2020 
(253) 735-1553
Representative:  Cesilee Colson

People First of Washington
(800) 758-1123
Representative:  Donna Lowary

Pierce County Coalition for Developmental Disabilities (PC2)

(253) 564-0707