ADA and IT Technical Assistance Center

Meeting the Challenge, Inc. was issued a five year grant in 1991 to provide ADA technical assistance throughout the six state Rocky Mountain region (Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, and North Dakota). In both 1996 and 2001, the DBTAC grant was renewed for five additional years.

In enacting the Americans with Disabilities Act, Congress specified that the executive agencies put in place a program of technical assistance to ensure that people with disabilities and covered entities were able to get information necessary to comply with the law.  To accomplish this, the Department of Education established ten regional information centers known as Disability and Business Technical Assistance Centers (DBTACs).

The grant requires Meeting the Challenge to support four primary areas of assistance:

• Information/Materials Dissemination
• Training
• Resource Referral
• Direct Technical Assistance

Meeting the Challenge has established itself as a leader among the ten centers.  Over 150,000 individual requests for information and assistance have been handled.  Over 100,000 pieces of printed materials have been distributed.  Nearly 40,000 individuals, from across the region, have received training in over 1,000 individual seminars.

In addition to email and print newsletters, the DBTAC maintains a comprehensive web site, ADAinformation.org.