Programs

Ohio Legal Rights Service (LRS) is an independent agency of the State of Ohio. LRS is designated under federal law as the system to protect and advocate the rights of people with disabilities and as the Client Assistance Program under the Rehabilitation Act. The mission of LRS is to protect and advocate, in partnership with people with disabilities, for their human, civil and legal rights.

LRS provides legal advocacy and rights protection to a wide range of people with disabilities. This includes assisting individuals with problems such as abuse, neglect, discrimination, access to assistive technology devices, special education, housing, employment, voting, community integration, and rights protection issues within the juvenile and criminal justice systems.

LRS administers the following programs:

• Protection and Advocacy for Assistive Technology (PAAT)
• Client Assistance Program (CAP)
• Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities (PADD)
• Protection and Advocacy under the Help America Vote Act (PAVA)
• Protection and Advocacy for Individual Rights (PAIR)
• Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI)
• Ombudsperson Section
• Protection and Advocacy for Beneficiaries of Social Security (PABSS)
• Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury (PATBI)
• Work Incentives Planning and Assistance Program (WIPA)