Clients' Rights Advocate

The Office of Clients’ Rights Advocacy (OCRA) helps protect Regional Center consumers’ rights. OCRA is funded by the state Department of Developmental Services. They assist with helping Regional Center consumers and their families get services like: In-Home Support Services (IHSS), Medi-Cal, Regional Center Services, School Services and Social Security.

The Office of Clients’ Rights Advocacy (OCRA) is part of Disability Rights California. OCRA provides free legal information, advice, and representation to regional center clients. OCRA serves clients of all 21 regional centers throughout California and has been serving them since 1999. OCRA has a Clients’ Rights Advocate (CRA) serving each regional center. The CRA helps protect regional center clients' rights.

Follow this link to see the OCRA Staff for all 21 Regional Centers

Notices: 

Disability Rights California will be closed during the week between Christmas and New Year. OCRA’s offices will be closed starting Friday December 23, 2022, and will reopen on Tuesday January 3, 2023. During that time, OCRA will not answer calls, respond to voicemails, reply to email messages, or open any physical mail.

Please do not call or email any referrals to OCRA with time-sensitive deadlines during the closure. 

COVID-19 resources:

COVID-19 page:  Here is the agency’s COVID-19 page, which has quite a bit of information about people’s rights and various services that are impacted, including Medi-Cal, IHSS and special education (SPED).  It is a work in progress as more information becomes available. That page is easily accessible from DRC’s homepage.

Special Education:  With schools now launching distance learning, the delivery system for special education services is developing. Here is their SPED COVID-19 page.  Scroll down for questions/answers.  

OCRA COVID-19 Special Education Article & PowerPoint: This article and Power Point Presentation was created by OCRA in order to provide information on how to obtain support regarding Special Education Services:

Visit their publication page for many different resources that may be of help to you.

OCRA's annual report can be found at Annual Reports | Disability Rights California

Due to the Safer at Home directive, OCRA is not taking walk-ins or in person meetings. You can reach them at 626-576-4437 for help.

The OCRA office for consumers of ELARC is located at 1000 South Fremont Ave Building A2 Room #3233.

For more information, refer to Disability Rights California