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July is Disability Pride Month! 🌟 It's the perfect time to reflect on how we can secure the future for our loved ones with disabilities. Estate planning plays a crucial role in ensuring their needs are met without compromising their eligibility for government benefits. Let’s take steps to protect and empower our family members. 👉 Share this post to spread awareness and connect with estate planning resources tailored for families with disabled members. #DisabilityPrideMonth #EstatePlanning #SpecialNeedsTrust

July is Disability Pride Month, have you heard of it? This month was introduced to celebrate and amplify disability activists, elevate disabled voices, and rally against ableism in all areas of society. It also seeks to change the way we think about and define disability, promoting that it is a natural part of human diversity to be proud of. So let’s celebrate and amplify disabled voices! Let’s call out ableism where we see it in society. And let’s reassess our perceptions of disability. https://lnkd.in/dUbcXYVh

❓Did you know that an employee with disabilities earns 66 cents for every dollar earned by non-disabled employees? October is Nation Disability Employment Awareness Month. This month sheds a light on the need for inclusive, equal practices in the workplace for the entire disabled community, visible and non-apparent. 📚 Learn more here about how you can bring supportive year-round practices here: https://lnkd.in/eAbpdihs

We belong in historical narratives too. "Practitioners of disability history often model community engagement and wide-ranging access practices, and they insist on the value of disabled people and their histories. Interpreting disability history is one way historians and their communities, public or academic, can practice access and inclusion. Accessible and inclusive history must consider the history of everyone, including disabled people, and be accessible for disabled people. Interpreting disability history is linked to advocating for including people with disabilities in public life and therefore combats ableism, or the preference for able-bodied people over disabled people. Moreover, it promotes disability justice today."https://lnkd.in/grCpttJR

July is Disability Pride Month! 🌟 It's the perfect time to reflect on how we can secure the future for our loved ones with disabilities. Estate planning plays a crucial role in ensuring their needs are met without compromising their eligibility for government benefits. Let’s take steps to protect and empower our family members. 👉 Share this post to spread awareness and connect with estate planning resources tailored for families with disabled members. #DisabilityPrideMonth #EstatePlanning #SpecialNeedsTrust

DYK the significance of the Disability Pride Flag? Our slider below unpacks the meaning for you & more... Why is this important to understand? B/c its Disability Pride Month and we all have a responsibility to combat ableism. ❗ Ableism - is a form of discrimination that places value on certain abilities over others. It means that bodies and minds are held to a standard based on what is considered "normal" or "able" in society. 💡 Because of ableism, people with disabilities are often isolated, less likely to be able to participate in community activities, and experience a myriad of barriers limiting their access to social, work and community activities. 💡 This can result in fewer job opportunities, lower average incomes, higher poverty rates and financial instability. 📣 To honour Disability Pride, I encourage you to reframe your thinking about Disability. Disability IS diversity. 🤝 Consider the Social Model of Disability which regards disability as resulting from external factors like the environmental barriers and discriminatory attitudes. i.e., People with disabilities are only disabled by the world in which they live in which was not designed to work for them. This changes our thinking and reinforces that it is all of our responsibility and within our power, to build equity and accessibility in our workplaces & beyond. #DisabilityPrideMonth #SocialModelofDisability #DisabilityInclusion #Disability #Equity #Belonging #Inclusion

It’s Learning Disability Week! This year’s theme is all about ensuring people with learning disabilities like Simon feel seen, heard and valued, and celebrating how they enrich society. Far too often people face ignorance and discrimination. Shockingly, 56% of disabled people have experienced hostility, aggression, or violence from a stranger due to their condition. This is unacceptable. You can help bring about change by speaking up, and amplifying the voices of those who are too often voiceless. Support them by following along this week and celebrating some of the brilliant people we support at Minstead Trust. #LearningDisabilityWeek #DoYouSeeMe #MinsteadTrust

Day 11 of National Disability Employment Awareness Month — Educate About Disability History. Despite the number of people with disabilities in the U.S. and the fact that they represent all races, classes, and cultures, many people are unaware of the rich history of the disability movement. Learn more: https://ow.ly/KhUn50TIKhY #NDEAM #DisabilityAwareness #DisabilityHistory

Today we celebrate American Disability Act Day, also recognized as National Disability Independence Day! On this day in 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law, serving as a bill of rights for Americans with disabilities by assuring their access to economic and civic opportunities. Learn more about ADA Day and its history: https://lnkd.in/e_Rpje_Y #ADA #DisabilityIndependence

How much disability history do you know? Take the quiz! Easterseals Massachusetts, has launched a campaign to bring more awareness to disability history and encourage teachers in Massachusetts to include more of that history in their classrooms. Test your knowledge in this short quiz: https://lnkd.in/ePTBXxtG #DisabilityAwareness #DisabilityHistory #Inclusion #Accessibility