Bethesda Voices is an online community seeking to improve public policy affecting persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Its purpose is to educate and engage, to mobilize support for system reforms and improvements, and to seek improved and sustainable funding for services and supports. Bethesda Voices is open to anyone with an interest in disabilities advocacy, and is free. Members include self-advocates; parents, family, friends and supporters of persons with disabilities; professional staff; and others with an interest in improving public policy in this area. The Bethesda Voices community is engaged in policy issues at the both the federal and state levels.

Bethesda Voices is a program of Bethesda Lutheran Communities, Inc., a Lutheran charity that is a leader in the field of services and supports for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities.