Our Advocacy

CDDC is on the front lines doing high impact social justice work.

Due in large part to systemic barriers and injustices, our guests face substantial social disparities that involve co-occurring behavioral health disabilities, substance use disorders, transition from incarceration, lack of access to education, and generational poverty often presenting in the form of chronic homelessness.

Our work intervenes in social systems created to oppress and further ostracize people already situated on the margins of life.

The holistic approach to our work improves our entire community by  educating and informing more privileged individuals about poverty to bridge the divide between those who are housed and unhoused.

CDDC employs healing-centered engagement, harm reduction, and trauma-informed care practices in our work every single day and are deeply invested in providing services that are always equitable and just.

Our diverse Board, staff, and volunteer supporters show our commitment to inclusion and the centering of people who are most marginalized in our community, like individuals with physical or mental health disabilities, people of color, those on an addiction/recovery journey, and people who are gender diverse.

The composition of folks who work and volunteer at CDDC directly reflects the diverse community we aim to serve.

Our guests are key drivers of our services.

As a grassroots organization that supports many clients with disabilities, we ascribe to the disability rights ethos “nothing about us without us.” We collaborate with guests to empower them and increase their self-advocacy, and as we do, their collaboration helps shape CDDC in remarkable ways.

We are grateful and humbled by partnership with our guests.