Request Help
If you have immediate safety concerns, call 9-1-1, 9-8-8, or your county crisis line. The statewide toll-free number for reporting abuse or neglect of any child or adult to the Colorado State Hotline is 1-844-264-5437.
We do not handle emergency situations and do not guarantee a response to every request for assistance. Please be aware that you could have deadlines and could lose the ability to act on a legal claim as time passes. We are not able to advise you of these deadlines.
If you aren’t seeking assistance, and instead want Disability Law Colorado to be aware of a situation involving disability-related legal issue, please send us an email at [email protected].
What we do:
- Provide tools Coloradoans with disabilities can use to advocate for themselves
- Class action litigation (representing a large group of people who are facing the same precise disability-related legal issue caused by the same entity)
- Systemic complaints on behalf of groups
- Monitor places where people with disabilities live and receive services
- Educate policymakers
- Provide community trainings about disability rights
- Investigate abuse and neglect
- Assist people who are having difficulties working with the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation or a Center for Independent Living
- Assist people who receive Social Security benefits if they are facing barriers to employment
- In very rare circumstances, we may take an individual case for legal representation
DLC only works on issues in our current focus areas. Even if you have an individual case within our focus areas, it is rare for an attorney to be assigned to help you. Most people who contact our office receive referrals to other organizations or tools to assist with self-advocacy. Our primary purpose is to push for systems change to improve the lives of Coloradoans with disabilities across the state. DLC does not respond to requests for help if they do not fall within one of these focus areas.
We cannot help with these issues, even if they are related to a disability:
- Applying for or appealing denial of Social Security benefits
- Help finding employment, housing, or financial assistance
- Becoming the guardian of a person with a disability
- Family law
- Evictions
- Criminal law
- Out-of-state issues
- Workers’ compensation
- Medical malpractice or personal injury
- Consumer or bankruptcy issues
- Any issue or problem not directly related to your disability
- Anything that is not the wish of the person with the disability
- Any issue for a person who already has an attorney working on the same issue
DLC does not guaranty a response to requests for help if they fall into one of the categories above.
To submit your information for review, you may call 303-722-0300 or submit our intake packet in English or Spanish.
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