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Disability Employment, What Can YOU Do?

Employment of People with Disabilities has been one of America's largest employment issues for an extended period of time. The Campaign for Disability Employment is a collaborative effort on the part of a number of organizations to promote positive employment outcomes for people with disabilities through encouragement of employers and others to recognize the talent and values we bring to the workplace, which are many-fold. People who experience forms of disabilities most certainly can and do make important and extremely worthwhile contributions to American businesses each and every single day of the week. Through implementation of good workplace practices such as maintenance of a flexible and inclusive workplace environment, businesses can capitalize on the talents of qualified people with disabilities, to the benefit of everyone involved.

The Campaign involves collaboration between a number of vital and energetic organizations who are working with the goals of raising awareness and changing attitudes concerning disability and employment. The organizations involved include:

The What Can YOU Do Campaign is funded by the United States Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) and receives assistance from the Job Accommodation Network (JAN). It is supported by the Disability Policy Research Center at West Virginia University. So; What Can YOU Do?

The What Can You Do? Campaign

The Campaign reinforces the facts that people with disabilities truly desire to work and that we have talents and abilities which very positively impact businesses, on financial and organization levels. It is easy to join the What Can YOU Do? Effort and support the Campaign through exploration of the Campaign’s website. The website presents a range of educational and outreach tools, all designed to engage employers, people with disabilities, family members, friends, educators, and the public at large.

The educational and outreach tools include on-line forms which offer users the opportunity to express their commitment to disability employment efforts and to share the things they can do. The website offers grassroots tools and tangible ideas for supporting the Campaign’s goals, links to trusted resources that provide information related to disability employment, as well as video public service announcements. The video spots are creative ones that challenge the assumptions concerning people with disabilities and employment and include the Campaign’s flagship, “I Can,” Public Service Announcement that is intended for nationwide television broadcast. Another video titled, “Meet Sue,” is the winner of the What Can YOU Do? Video Contest!

Please join the Campaign for Disability Employment in its mission to promote positive employment outcomes for people with disabilities by using the What Can YOU Do? Web site to access resources to assist in recruiting, retaining, and advancing skilled, qualified employees and by sharing the important message that, “At work, it's what people can do that matters.”

Here are some things that YOU Can Do!

Create a Disability Employment Display: It is a great time to freshen up bulletin boards in locations that employees or constituents frequent! Post positive messages about the importance of a flexible and inclusive workplace. You Can start by printing and displaying a What Can YOU Do? Poster!

Feature the Campaign for Disability Employment in Your Newsletter or Intranet: The Campaign for Disability Employment offers content that is both fresh and timely for member outreach, publications, internal web sites, and employee newsletters! Feel free to reproduce on or more of their, 'drop-in,' articles in your publication!

Hold an Event Celebrating the What Can YOU Do? Campaign: Everyone enjoys a social event with plenty of food, fun, and educational programming. A What Can YOU Do? Event can help to reinforce the importance of an inclusive workplace, all while people enjoy the fun! You can enlist a speaker to deliver disability talking points at the event, and invite local employers and employees with disabilities to share their experiences and insights.

The Campaign for Disability Employment would love to hear about the activities your company or organization in support of the Campaign conducts; contact them!
 

By What Can YOU Do? Campaign

What Can YOU Do? Tools you can download and use!

Campaign for Disability Employment Fact Sheet
Standard size fact sheet that may be reproduced and distributed

Customizable Press Release
Fill-in-the blank template for organizations to customize and pitch to their local media

Ready-to-Publish Articles
“Drop-in” articles for use in your own publication

 



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