NACDL and RespectAbility presented an engaging webinar on welcoming and including people with disabilities at your organization as staff, leaders, and other key stakeholders. The session covered best practices in fostering accessible, equitable, and inclusive organizational cultures and workplaces, from recruiting, onboarding, and retaining diverse, disabled talent, to promoting leadership and advancement opportunities, to building [click to continue...]
RespectAbility will offer guidance on recruiting, hiring and promoting people with disabilities into the workspace and how to make your workplace accessible by demonstrating the best practices in disability inclusion. Our team will discuss tips for increasing your pipeline of people with disabilities, navigating reasonable accommodations, improving accessibility for all and how disability increases diversity, [click to continue...]
https://vimeo.com/935880882 Read transcript Download PowerPoint Heritage Christian Services’ Grief Support Team works with people who are aging and experiencing life changes. This presentation about the team’s work reflected on why and how the team was developed, how the team provides grief support through music, dance, and art to people with disabilities and their chosen congregations, [click to continue...]
From February to April, NACDL, in partnership with RespectAbility, is offering a 3-part webinar series on disability in the criminal legal system. For part 2, this 60 minute session covered legal requirements for accessibility, including individualized accommodations, as well as accessibility best practices and how they can be applied to materials, meetings, procedures, and programming. [click to continue...]
Millions of low-income people with disabilities and older adults receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) each month. For these recipients, SSI is a vital source of income that pays for rent, food, transportation, and other living expenses. However, people who receive SSI are trapped in a cycle of enforced poverty. To receive SSI, an individual may have no [click to continue...]
“This generous contribution from Yield Giving will enhance our ability to achieve systemic change and foster inclusion across sectors. We will be able to leverage this support to expand our reach and impact, advancing more opportunities for our community, developing future generations of disabled leaders, and creating greater shifts in societal attitudes toward disability.” – Ariel Simms, RespectAbility President and CEO
https://vimeo.com/925898048?share=copy Read transcript RespectAbility hosted a conversation with the talent behind the making of Dahlia, a disabled character from Walt Disney Animation Studios’ most recent film, Wish. In Wish, a young girl named Asha wishes on a star and gets a more direct answer than she bargained for when a trouble-making star comes down from [click to continue...]
https://vimeo.com/927646297 Read transcript When applying for various labs and fellowships, some applicants may feel compelled to reveal personal details about their lives. This is especially true for individuals from underrepresented backgrounds who may feel pressured to share more information about themselves in their applications and writing. However, it’s important to recognize that not everyone is [click to continue...]
https://vimeo.com/923765773 Read transcript Our Policy team hosted an informative webinar on how to register to vote and access reliable information on elections and candidates. Attendees had the chance to hear from a panel of experts who shared their insights on how to get involved in campaigns and make a meaningful impact on the political process. [click to continue...]
The J’s Opening the Doors department celebrated Jewish Disability Awareness Acceptance & Inclusion Month (JDAIM) with Ava Xiao-Lin Rigelhaupt. Ava is a writer, consultant, actress, speaker and advocate for disability and autism representation in the entertainment industry. Ava was the Autistic Creative Consultant on the Broadway musical, “How to Dance in Ohio,” based on the [click to continue...]
