Everybody belongs. Everybody serves.
Disability
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Stanley & Monica
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The ADA (the Americans with Disabilities Act) celebrates it's 32nd anniversary this month! Here a disability advocate shares her top four disability etiquette tips.
The Inclusion Coffeehouse in Hamilton, ON, is run by people with and without intellectual disabilities. It's a place where everyone is known and loved exactly as they are.
Are you part of the Disability Concerns community? If so, we would like to pay for you to attend the Faith Inclusion Network Conference with us. Sign up today!
This article explores the many benefits of making sure your Zoom meetings are enabled with Closed Captioning.
I was deeply impacted by her faith that I was capable, physical challenges and all.
Quite simply, we want to help believers of all abilities integrate into churches.
Ready to create a more accessible worship structure for your church? Check out this great resource!
Our annual Disability Concerns Leadership Training Event is just around the corner - have you signed up yet?
Join Disability Concerns for our annual Leadership Training Event - August 11th and 12th!
Zoie Sheets shares her thoughts on the urgency of creating accessible faith spaces.
Disability Concerns is excited to announce the release of our newest resource: Everybody Belongs, Serving Together!
During the pandemic, people with disabilities found that some barriers to participation actually were removed. The articles in this issue tell a few of those stories of unexpected access.
Lori challenges us to look for the blessings in COVID with the reminder of God being our ever-present help during these times.
Here are my top choices, out of hundreds of Scriptures that mention impairments and disabilities, to help us understand the Biblical basis of the ADA and the ICF-2.
Out of adversity grew a larger sense of community.
While the rest of the world collectively mourned the loss of closeness and community, I suddenly found myself a new reason to smile.
Terry DeYoung, coordinator for Disability Concerns RCA, takes stock of all the ways that our society has changed for the better due to the pandemic.
We encourage all churches to recognize Disability Awareness Sunday this October to demonstrate that all members of their congregation are valued. Find resources here!
This article focuses on why churches should fully adhere to the Americans With Disabilities Act and mentions some of the obstructions that need to be overcome.
Disability discrimination by churches and other ministries still diminishes the participation and the core rights of people with disabilities.
Meet Phillip, a member of Chelwood CRC. He was recently ordained as a deacon in his church. He has shared his unique gifts that God has given him for many years at his church. What a blessing!
Living with blindness means relying on the support of others to guide you through life at times. Traveling is one of those times.
For me, traveling mostly involves managing motion sickness. Still, I count my blessings, because traveling for many others living with disabilities is much more complicated than it is for me.
Traveling when you depend on a ventilator to breath requires a great deal of planning. Caregivers are also a part of the travel plans.
This PowerPoint will help churches understand how to ensure their facility meets both the physical and attitudinal requirements of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).