• 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
 

Advocates for DD Choices

Arc of Grays Harbor

Arc of King County

Arc of Kitsap & Jefferson Counties

Arc of Pierce County

Arc of Snohomish County

Arc of Spokane

Arc of Tri-Cities

Arc of Washington State

Arc of Yakima County

Association of County Human Services (ACHS)

Autism Society of Washington

Benton Franklin Parent Coalition

Clallam County Parent Coalition

Clark County Parent Coalition

Community Protection Providers Association (CPPA)

Community Residential Services Association (CRSA)

Disability Rights Washington

Family Resource, Education and Empowerment for Developmental Disabilities (FREED)

King County Parent Coalition for DD

Kitsap County Parent Coalition for DD

Lewis County Parent Coalition

Parent Coalition of Jefferson County

Parkview Services

Partnership 2020

People First of Washington

Provail

Rehabilitation Enterprises of Washington (REW)

Self Advocates in Leadership (SAIL)

Self Advocates of Washington (SAW)

Skagit Parent Coalition

Special Needs Advocacy Parent (SNAP)

Spokane County Parent Coalition

Tessera

Thurston County Advocates for DD

Washington Initiative for Supported Employment (WISE)

Washington PAVE

Washington State Developmental Disabilities Council (DDC)