Civil rights work requires a process capable of integrating lived experience, legal expertise, and political reality in the same room. The Task Force on the Rights of Coloradans with Disabilities produced one of the most comprehensive disability rights policy frameworks in Colorado’s history.
Recommendations published across four simultaneous subcommittees
Subcommittees coordinated simultaneously under one process architecture
Final report published
In 2023, the Colorado legislature created the Task Force on the Rights of Coloradans with Disabilities with a declaration that protection from discrimination and basic access to government services, housing, employment, and recreation are fundamental to the well-being of Coloradans with disabilities. The Task Force was charged with examining those issues across four subcommittees covering government accessibility, housing, the outdoors, and a rewrite of Colorado’s civil rights statutes for persons with disabilities.
Confluence was selected by the Department of Regulatory Agencies and its Civil Rights Division to facilitate and manage the work of the Task Force and all four simultaneous subcommittees. The work required coordinating multiple bodies with distinct charges, integrating testimony from dozens of stakeholders with direct lived experience, and producing recommendations that could hold across a politically diverse set of interests.
The Task Force published its final report in January 2025, containing 58 recommendations.
Task Force on the Rights of
Coloradans with Disabilities, Final
Report
Task force participant 路 civil rights engagement
State agency leaders, Governor鈥檚 offices, county governments, and organizations navigating problems that have resisted every standard approach reach out directly. The engagement starts with a conversation.
CO 路 NC 路 FL 路 National
