Explains who qualifies and for AABD benefits in Illinois. Recipients receive cash and medical assistance.

If you need immediate hospitalization to protect yourself or others from physical harm, you may be admitted through the admission by emergency certification process.

Information about rights in a voluntary or involuntary admission, transfer, and discharge.

Use this form to show that you are a person with a disability so that you can get a free Illinois person with a disability ID card.

A student with a disability can be suspended for the same reasons as a student without a disability. But there is a limit in a year.

Explains what you can expect if you are moving into a long-term care facility.

Steps to request a due process hearing for a special education issue and how the hearing works.

If you do not pose an immediate danger to yourself or others, you are entitled to have a court hearing before you are admitted to a mental health facility.

Steps to apply for Aid to the Aged, Blind, and Disabled (AABD) benefits including how to appeal an AABD decision.

Explains options for people who have a loved one with a severe mental illness.

A step-by-step survey of legal options and advocacy resources that a person receiving mental health treatment and services can use to enforce their rights.

Explains Social Security Administration (SSA) benefits for retired workers and families, and people with disabilities.

Steps to document unfair treatment at work from writing down interactions to requesting a copy of your personal file.

Steps to appeal a Social Security decision from the deadlines you must follow to how the administrative hearing works.

Workers with disabilities cannot be discriminated against for their disabilities.

Steps to file a grievance or complaint if your long-term facility is breaking the law by doing something to you.