The National Service Inclusion Toolbox
Tools for building an inclusive service environment
The National Service Inclusion Project and its partner UCEDs have developed many resources that can assist national service organizations to become more welcoming and inclusive to individuals with disabilities. Below you will find a listing of these "tools" for your use. Please let us know if anything was especially helpful, or if you would like us to develop a tool on a particular topic.
Inclusion: Creating an Inclusive Environment
- A comprehensive handbook designed to assist service organizations fully include individuals with disabilities as active service members and volunteers.
- Disability.gov is the federal government's one-stop Web site for people with disabilities, their families, employers, vocational rehabilitation and human resource professionals and many others.
Emergency Preparation and People with Disabilities Toolkit
- Emergency preparedness and safe egress are top priorities for every organization. This resource will assist organizations and individuals with disabilities to develop and implement an accessible emergency preparedness plan.
Disability Awareness: Beyond the Day
- This tool assesses the use of simulated disability activities as a training tool to convey what it is like to live with a disability, and offers alternatives.
Learning Disabilities: What National and Community Service Organizations Should Know
- Although awareness of and supports for learning disabilities have grown in recent history, many individuals still have questions regarding this hidden disability. This tool provides introductory information about learning disabilities, including ideas service members and volunteers can use.
Service and Inclusion from the Member Perspective
- Excerpts from interviews with three individuals with disabilities who participated in national service. They discuss the motivations for joining national service and successes and challenges they faced, and offer some suggestions for making national service more accessible.
A Multimedia Resource for Inclusive Community Service
- Emily Miller, a 2000-2001 CNCS Fellow, documented the exchange of talents and opportunities between national service programs and individuals with disabilities. This multimedia tool offers concrete examples of the contributions and gains of service members with disabilities in their own words.
©The National Service Inclusion Project is a cooperative agreement (#01CAM0016) between the Corporation for National and Community Service and the Institute for Community Inclusion at UMass Boston in collaboration with the Association of University Centers on Disabilities.