About Beyond The Box Advocacy
Beyond The Box Advocacy was created to challenge the systems that keep Americans with disabilities boxed in. We believe disability should never mean enforced limits in healthcare, education, policy, or daily life. Our work is grounded in lived experience and a commitment to justice.
We work with individuals, families, organizations, and policymakers to redesign disability support systems that restrict independence and mobility. This includes consulting on policy, program design, and implementation to help systems move from restriction to access.
At the center of our mission is the Enforced Barriers Project, a concept that identifies the four enforced systemic barriers built into United States disability policy: dependency, immobility, invisibility, and insecurity. These barriers trap Americans with disabilities in poverty, restrict movement, and make support conditional instead of guaranteed. We name them so they can be dismantled.
We address these barriers on two levels:
direct support for people navigating today’s system
system redesign to build the one that should exist tomorrow
Beyond The Box Advocacy developed the Disability Support Service Portability Framework to address geography based barriers to disability support. This framework aims to unlock broader disability freedom and reform across the other enforced barriers.