Disability Rights Mississippi Receives Remaining Funds

Disability Rights Mississippi receives remaining funds

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Disability Rights Mississippi (DRMS) received the remainder of their 2025 federal funding. The nonprofit is back to taking new cases. This comes after DRMS announced that it would have to stop taking new cases at the beginning of May due to federal funding not being delivered. Mississippi third-graders set record in reading assessment DRMS is the federally mandated protection and advocacy agency for people with disa…

After funding delays, disability rights organization resumes services

A state organization tasked with advocating for and providing legal services to Mississippians with disabilities received its delayed federal funding Wednesday – two weeks after it was forced to stop taking new cases for the first time in its