Are you looking for proven ways to increase your organization's disability inclusion?
The Disability:IN DC Metro is the local best-practice business resource for you!
Vision
Cultivate workforces and workplaces where talent with disabilities are recruited, included, promoted, retained and valued as both internal talent and innovative vendors.
Mission
Building the business network for disability inclusion.
New Announcements
Demystifying Disability Inclusion:
Celebrating the 34th Anniversary of the ADA
July 24, 2024
12:00 - 1:30 PM ET
July 26, 2024 marks the 34th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Since its enactment, the civil rights law has shaped the development of and conversations around disability rights. Join Disability:IN DC Metro, in collaboration with its affiliate partners Disability:IN Chicagoland; Disability:IN Minnesota; Disability:IN Wisconsin; and the Center for Disability Inclusion, for a celebration of the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on Wednesday, July 24th from 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET. Ann Deschamps, Director of the Mid-Atlantic ADA Center, and Robin Jones, Director of the Great Lakes ADA Center, will lead a virtual conversation on the evolution of disability inclusion. Learn about the ADA’s impact on building inclusion within a culture that historically has never been inclusive. Discuss the changes in society’s perceptions of disability and its connection to other facets of identity. Understand common stumbling blocks to workplace inclusion. Bring your questions about disability inclusion to this interactive and engaging 90-minute conversation to celebrate the 34th Anniversary of the ADA.
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DisabilityIQ Professional Development Center
Your source for programs, events and professional development courses.
Professional Development Course Available Now!
Disability 101 Basics
This 30-minute Primer provides an overview of disability inclusive language, including both person-first and identity-first, and neurodivergent. Provides examples of appropriate etiquette and interaction with individuals using wheelchairs or other mobility devices, individuals who are blind or have low vision, people who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well a discussion of non-apparent disabilities.
Learning Objectives
Appropriate language: Terminology, Person-First, Identity-First, Neurodivergent
Disability etiquette: Appropriate Interactions Audience: All Employees
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Course Purchase Options
Once purchased, email a list of designated users using the Excel spreadsheet template to Katherine McCary
Please Note as courses become available from the Available Soon list in the Professional Development section, they will appear in your Team Access account.
- Entire Organization - $7,500.00 per year
- Large Team: Up to 500 seats - $4,999.00 per year
- Mid-size Team: Up to 50 seats - $3,750.00 per year
- Small Team: Up to 20 seats - $1,999.00 per year
- Individual Purchase: one seat - $199.00 per year
Member Benefits
Our organization, formerly the DC Metro Business Leadership Network, is the largest regional member network of a variety of industry employers advocating for inclusion of individuals with disabilities in today's workforce, marketplace and supply chain.
A non-profit business-led network established in 2006, our purpose is to bring the business community together in a dialog through education, training and resources with a focus on removing attitudinal and organizational barriers by exchanging best practices to ensure that the inclusion of individuals with disabilities as smart business.
Our Members and Guests have access to resources, programs and partners to strengthen the disability inclusion efforts and outcomes.
- Thought leadership
- Business to business networking
- Introductions to community partners
- Access to talent
- Hot topic programming led by Subject Matter Experts
- Webinars
Our focus is on Culture Change!
Disability:IN®
We are the local affiliate of Disability:IN®, formerly the USBLN®.
Affiliates Matter
If your company operates in any of the 25 states that our 30 sister affiliates* are located, you should consider engagement in these local chapters. It’s at the local level that meaningful engagement occurs and enables your local leaders, your ERG Members and your employees to understand and model disability inclusion.
*There are also former affiliates, including VirginiaAbility, that serves the Metro Richmond, VA area and is an organization to join if your company has representation in that geography.
National Representation:
If your company operates nationally, then you should consider joining Disability:IN and attending the Annual National Conference for a national peer to peer dialog.
Branding your company:
As members local and national (if appropriate) is critical and will serve to draw talent with disabilities to your company, engage and retain your current workforce with disabilities and include disability-owned businesses in your supply chain.
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