This report discusses the need to provide people with disabilities with accessible opportunities for community contribution and to provide the individualized supports and assistance necessary to enable their participation. Two strategies are discussed for realizing these objectives: adequate individual funding controlled by people with disabilities and their families and friends; and a process of culture change through community engagement. Two models of the community engagement process are presented that directly involve more people and associations and promote higher levels of organization among people with disabilities and their families and friends. Possibilities for action are described and include: (1) create more family groups; (2) support leadership from among people with disabilities; (3) tell powerful stories; (4) keep person-centered planning vital and outside the orbit of the service system; (5) maintain clear links to political action while pursuing a distinct strategy; (6) develop cooperative projects; and (7) offer formal learning opportunities. (CR)