Goals
General Goals:
Education: Providing lectures, DAMO's newsletter, workshops, articles in local newspapers, expression art, and classes for special education and mainstream students and teachers.

Training: Self advocacy, disability awareness, diversity trainings, and other issues facing people of color who have disabilities (such as sensitivity trainings).

Arts and Culture: New Voices Disabled Poets & Artists of Color events, booklets, and videos; Family and special events and workshops on how to epxress yourself through the arts, etc; Collaborate with other grassroots arts organizations; DAMO also uses expression arts to mobilize for a political cause; and to promote and support local disabled artists, especially disabled artists of color.

Consulting: Provide consultation to organizations, shcools, employers, etc. on legal rights, services, culture, outreach methods, and other issues that touch the disabled people of color communities in the Bay Area.

Library: DAMO offers a small resource library that contains videos, books, articles, laws, etc. pertaining to disabled people of color and their families.

Specific Goals:
--To produce educational materials for pulbic awareness of disabled people of color.
--To provide a platform and public arena for disabled artists and poets of color.
--To be an educational advocacy group for the legal rights, services, and other issues that touch disabled communities of color.
--To provide empowering workshops, lectures, and classes on the history, culture, and issues that face disabled people of color.

Breaking the Silence & Organize Campaign (BSOC)
DAMO is coming to your neighborhood to educate, celebrate, advocate and recruit disabled and non- disabled people of color for its campaign
What is it?
BSOC Campaign is a platform for disabled people of color. BSOC main goal is to build friendships, leaders, to display the culture, artistic talents, history of disabled people of color and organize in communities of color to advocate for legal rights, services and bring to light issues that touch the disabled people of color communities in San Francisco!
Why?
BSOC Campaign was born because there is no platform where disabled people of color can come together to express themselves, feel empowered and to use their abilities for change and increase public awareness about issues that face them and to help change the economic, political and social roadblocks. Do you know that disabled minorities have a rich culture but we also face police brutality, street violence and have the highest unemployment rate every year? It's time to voice our issues and educate our diverse communities that make up San Francisco.
How?
BSOC Campaign will hit four neighborhoods of people of color with various educational, advocacy and artistic eventsworkshops throughout the year (Inner Mission, Excelsior, the Bayview, and the Filmore districts of San Francisco). Anybody is welcome to take part of this campaign. Quarterly DAMO will be at various public spaces i.e. Bookstores, libraries, cultural centers, schools, youth centers, non-profit organizations and churches etc. but we need your help to make this campaign and DAMO a success.

Join the BSOC Campaign and make a difference. Stay tune for more info...
FOR MOORE INFORMATION and to get involved write to
DAMO, Leroy F. Moore Jr., Executive Director or David Aldape at 820 Valencia St. San Francisco, CA. 94110 or email DAMO