New Resource Available on Rebuilding Accessible Communities August 10, 2006

A new initiative is underway to promote accessibility in the rebuilding of communities destroyed by last year’s hurricanes. Rebuilding Accessible Communities, a joint venture of the ADA Technical Assistance Centers and the Access Board, is focused on developing and distributing guidance on achieving accessibility in reconstruction projects. Under this program, a new website has been launched to disseminate information prepared and collected to date.

The Rebuilding Accessible Communities effort was conceived as an opportunity for community groups, advocates and the building industry to collectively reconstruct communities in a way to be accessible to all. The new website, an initial step of this program, currently provides answers to common questions that have arisen in work to rebuild devastated areas as well as links to existing sources of information. Additional resources, best practices and advisory information will be posted to this site as they become available.

Under this program, the ADA Technical Assistance Centers, which comprise a national network of federally funded resources serving different geographic areas, and the Board are providing technical assistance and training which is geared to the particular needs of communities. For further information contact: