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{{Short description|Advisory body to the President of the US}}
[[File:PCPID-Report-2016 (page 1 crop).jpg|thumb|PCPID logo as of 2017]]

The '''President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities''' (PCPID) is an advisory body that provides assistance to the [[President of the United States]] and the [[Secretary of Health and Human Services]] on [[public policy]] issues related to [[intellectual disability]].<ref name="acl">{{cite web|title=The President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities (PCPID)|url=https://www.acl.gov/programs/empowering-advocacy/presidents-committee-people|website=[[Administration for Community Living]]|accessdate=6 May 2018}}</ref> It was started as a [[blue-ribbon panel]] by [[John F. Kennedy]] in 1961, and later reorganized through [[executive order]] into an official panel by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966, with the goal of ensuring the right to a "decent, dignified place in society".<ref name="harris">{{cite book|last=Harris|first=James C. |title=Intellectual Disability: Understanding Its Development, Causes, Classification, Evaluation, and Treatment|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VpARDAAAQBAJ|accessdate=6 May 2018|year=2006|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=9780195178852}}</ref>{{rp|412}}<ref name="2016 report">{{cite web|title=Report to the President: Strengthening an Inclusive Pathway for People with Intellectual Disabilities and Their Families|url=https://www.acl.gov/sites/default/files/programs/2017-03/PCPID-Report-2016.pdf|website=President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities|publisher=[[Administration for Community Living]]|accessdate=6 May 2018|date=2016}}</ref>{{rp|1}} Originally known as the President's Committee on Mental Retardation, it was eventually renamed in 2003 by George W. Bush over concerns regarding negative [[labelling]].<ref name="enc">{{cite book|last1=Reynolds|first1=Cecil R.|last2=Fletcher-Janzen|first2=Elaine |title=Encyclopedia of Special Education: A Reference for the Education of Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Disabilities and Other Exceptional Individuals, 3 Volume Set|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7n-tu1Q7jBsC|accessdate=6 May 2018|date=26 February 2007|publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]]|isbn=9780470174197}}</ref>{{rp|1627}}<ref name="crisis">{{cite web|title=Report to the President 2017 America's Direct Support Workforce Crisis: Effects on People with Intellectual Disabilities, Families, Communities and the U.S. Economy|url=https://www.acl.gov/sites/default/files/programs/2018-02/2017%20PCPID%20Full%20Report_0.PDF|website=President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities|publisher=[[Administration for Community Living]]|accessdate=6 May 2018}}</ref>{{rp|6}} It was established through the work of [[Eunice Kennedy Shriver]] while serving as the head of the [[Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation]].<ref name="HardmanEgan2016">{{cite book|last1=Hardman|first1=Michael L.|last2=Egan|first2=M. Winston|last3=Drew|first3=Clifford J.|title=Human Exceptionality: School, Community, and Family|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PrUaCgAAQBAJ|accessdate=6 May 2018|date=1 January 2016|publisher=[[Cengage Learning]]|isbn=9781305854888}}</ref>{{rp|212}}

The PCPID consists of a 31-member panel composed of 18 citizen members and 13 government officials, with the number of citizen members capped at 21, and each citizen serving maximum two-year terms.<ref name="acl"/> The citizen members are each appointed by the president, and the government members consist of the following:

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* [[Secretary of Health and Human Services]] 
* [[United States Secretary of Education|Secretary of Education]]
* [[Secretary of Labor]]
* [[Secretary of Housing and Urban Development]] 
* [[Secretary of Commerce]]
* [[Secretary of Transportation]]
* [[United States Secretary of the Interior|Secretary of the Interior]] 
* [[Secretary of Homeland Security]]
* [[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]]
* [[Chief Executive Officer]] of the [[Corporation for National and Community Service]]
* Chair of the [[Equal Employment Opportunity Commission]]
* Chair of the [[National Council on Disability]]
* Commissioner of the [[Social Security Administration]]<ref name="crisis"/>{{rp|6}}
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The committee receives no federal funding, and administers no [[Federal grants in the United States|grants]]. The PCPID holds formal meetings twice per year, and issues an annual report providing advice and recommendations.<ref name="acl"/> The scope of the PCPID according to its governing executive order is intellectual disability as it relates to:

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* Expansion of educational opportunities
* Promotion of [[Owner-occupancy|homeownership]]
* Assurance of [[workplace integration]]
* Improvement of transportation options
* Expansion of full access to community living
* Increasing access to [[Assistive technology|assistive]] and [[universally designed technologies]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, President's Committee for People With Intellectual Disabilities|url=https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/03/06/2017-04165/administration-on-intellectual-and-developmental-disabilities-presidents-committee-for-people-with|website=[[Federal Register]]|accessdate=6 May 2018}}</ref>
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In 1974 the goals of the committee were realigned by [[Richard Nixon]], with a focus on [[deinstitutionalization]], [[Preventive healthcare|preventive care]],  and [[Natural and legal rights|legal rights]], and again in 1996 by [[Bill Clinton]], with a focus on community inclusion.<ref name="enc"/>{{rp|1627}}

The committee is located organizationally under the [[Administration for Community Living]] and the [[Department of Health and Human Services]].<ref name="2016 report"/>{{rp|2}}