Center for Racial and Disability Justice

Too often, disability is treated as an afterthought in conversations about climate resilience, environmental health, disaster recovery, infrastructure, and community planning. Climate Futures asks a different question: What becomes possible when disability is centered in the futures we imagine and the systems we build?

Today, CRDJ is excited to launch our Climate Futures Toolkit, a new resource exploring the intersection of disability justice, environmental justice, and climate justice.

As a new home for our Inclusive Disaster Relief Guide and Toolkit, and our Making Disability Visible exploration of disability models, we hope these resources advance more accessible, equitable, and sustainable futures.

Explore the toolkit: CRDJustice.org/climate-futures

Today, we submitted a public comment letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in response to the proposed 2028 Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Quality Measure Set.

Written by Dr. Kate Caldwell and Dr. Hope Sparks, this letter raises concerns that the proposed measure set lacks sufficient equity stratification, lived-experience measures, material-access measures, and accountability mechanisms needed to assess whether HCBS are equitably supporting community living, self-determination, safety, and access to needed services.

Our recommendations include:
• Equity stratification to establish a meaningful baseline
• Reporting beyond geographic stratification alone
• Program, plan, and population-level accountability
• Self-determination, safety, and community as core measures of quality
• Material-access measures
• Co-production in equity-centered measure development

You can read this letter, along with all of our public comment submissions, on our website at https://www.crdjustice.org/public-comment-letters

From protest to hope, from rage to unity, CRDJams is back with our newest playlist: Spring of Discontent. 🎧

Critical songs across genres, grounded in history, built to carry a movement forward.

Press play, sit with it, share it loud.

Listen now at https://www.youtube.com//playlists