Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy

Virginia's Protection and Advocacy System Serving Persons with Disabilities

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The Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy (VOPA) helps with disability-related problems like abuse, neglect, and discrimination.  We also help people with disabilities obtain services and treatment.  All callers receive help with these problems.  Individuals with problems, targeted in our program goals, may also receive advocacy services and/or legal representation.

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VOPA's Public Interest Survey (click here)

Our Mission

Through zealous and effective advocacy and legal representation to:  protect and advance legal, human, and civil rights of persons with disabilities; combat and prevent abuse, neglect, and discrimination; and promote independence, choice, and self-determination by persons with disabilities.

VOPA Contact Information

Mailing Address:  1910 Byrd Avenue, Suite 5, Richmond, VA  23230
Telephone:  804-225-2042 (Voice/TTY)       1- 800-552-3962 (Voice/TTY) (Toll-Free in Virginia)
Fax:  804-662-7057
E-mail:  general.vopa@vopa.virginia.gov
Web Address:   www.vopa.state.va.us

Items of Interest (See the News Page for Additional Items of Interest)

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The Arc of Virginia Condemns Negative Depiction of People with Intellectual Disabilities in Film “Tropic Thunder"

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Resolution in Memory of Dink Shackleford

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Voting System User Study

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Invitation for Bid Solicitation Cancellation

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ADA Training Resource Center on the Americans with Disabilities Act

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2008 Special Education Parent Involvement Survey

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Study Seeks Participants with Sensory and/or Mobility Impairments (If you have a sensory impairment and/or mobility impairment, you may be eligible to participate in a new research project.  This research aims to understand what people with sensory and/or mobility impairments do in their daily lives, how their environments affect their community participation and what, if any, help they need to complete activities.)

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DBVI 2008 Workshop on Blindness and Visual Impairment - December 3 - 5, 2008

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