Under the SourceAmerica AbilityOne program an accommodation is considered any modification or adjustment to a job or work environment that enables a qualified person with a disability to apply for or perform a job. To learn more about accommodations based on your role visit https://askjan.org/info-by-role.cfm#for-employers

Accommodations may include assistive technology, interpretive services, ergonomic furnishings, and/or allowances for added breaks and health care appointments. Rehabilitation may include occupational therapy, vocational training, and individual coaching and mentoring.

Accommodations and rehabilitation allow people with disabilities to participate in the workforce, contribute to the economy, achieve financial independence, and feel valued.

Learn more about the AbilityOne program https://www.abilityone.gov/

Description text Disability Inclusion: Making sure everybody has the same opportunities to participate in every aspect of life to the best of their abilities and desires.

Including people with disabilities in everyday activities and encouraging them to have roles similar to their peers who do not have a disability is disability inclusion. Davolt Community Advocacy gets involved and encourages people with disabilities to increase their participation in socially expected life roles and activities—such as being a student, worker, friend, community member, patient, spouse, partner, or parent.

Socially expected activities may also include engaging in social activities, using public resources such as transportation and libraries, moving about within communities, receiving adequate health care, having relationships, and enjoying other day-to-day activities. Davolt Community Advocacy is committed to breaking down these barriers so equal access is provided.

Disability inclusion allows for people with disabilities to take advantage of the benefits of the same health promotion and prevention activities experienced by people who do not have a disability. Davolt Community Advocacy is committed to breaking down these barriers through partnerships within the community. Through education and counselling programs that promote physical activity and improve nutrition. Including people with disabilities in these activities begins with identifying and eliminating barriers to their participation.

Disability affects approximately 61 million, or nearly 1 in 4 (26%) people in the United States living in communities. Disability affects more than one billion people worldwide. According to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, people “. . . with disabilities include those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory [such as hearing or vision] impairments which in interaction with various barriers may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others.”

People with disabilities experience significant disadvantages when it comes to health such as:

Adults with disabilities are three times more likely to have heart disease, stroke, diabetes, or cancer than adults without disabilities;

Adults with disabilities are more likely than adults without disabilities to be current smokers;

and Women with disabilities are less likely than women without disabilities to have received a breast cancer X-ray test (mammogram) during the past 2 years.

Although disability is associated with health conditions (such as arthritis, mental, or emotional conditions) or events (such as injuries), the functioning, health, independence, and engagement in society of people with disabilities can vary depending on several factors:

Severity of the underlying impairment

Social, political, and cultural influences and expectations

Aspects of natural and built surroundings

Availability of assistive technology and devices

Family and community support and engagement

Davolt Community Advocacy understands the relationship between the way people function and how they participate in society, and making sure everybody has the same opportunities to participate in every aspect of life to the best of their abilities and desires.

Donation Denominations, and what they help with:

$50 Transportation Hero

Transportation barriers are due to a lack of adequate transportation that interferes with a person’s ability to be independent and to function in society. Examples of transportation barriers include:

Lack of access to accessible or convenient transportation for people who are not able to drive because of vision or cognitive impairments, and Public transportation may be unavailable or at inconvenient distances or locations.

$75 Programmatic Hero

Programmatic barriers limit the effective delivery of a public health or healthcare program for people with different types of impairments. Examples of programmatic barriers include:

Inconvenient scheduling;

Insufficient time set aside for medical examination and procedures; Little or no communication with patients or participants; and Provider’s attitudes, knowledge, and understanding of people with disabilities.

$100 Communication Hero

Communication barriers are experienced by people who have disabilities that affect hearing, speaking, reading, writing, and or understanding, and who use different ways to communicate than people who do not have these disabilities. Examples of communication barriers include:

Written health promotion messages with barriers that prevent people with vision impairments from receiving the message. These include

Use of small print or no large-print versions of material, and

No Braille or versions for people who use screen readers.

Auditory health messages may be inaccessible to people with hearing impairments, including

Videos that do not include captioning, and Oral communications without accompanying manual interpretation (such as, American Sign Language).

The use of technical language, long sentences, and words with many syllables may be significant barriers to understanding for people with cognitive impairments.

$200 Education

Aides in providing more Job Coaching opportunites and Job development.

$500 Social Hero

Social barriers are related to the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, learn, work and age – or social determinants of health – that can contribute to decreased functioning among people with disabilities. Here are examples of social barriers:

People with disabilities are far less likely to be employed. In 2017, 35.5% of people with disabilities, ages 18 to 64 years, were employed, while 76.5% of people without disabilities were employed, about double that of people with disabilities.2

Adults age 18 years and older with disabilities are less likely to have completed high school compared to their peers without disabilities (22.3% compared to 10.1%).

People with disabilities are more likely to have income of less than $15,000 compared to people without disabilities (22.3% compare to 7.3%).

Children with disabilities are almost four times more likely to experience violence than children without disabilities.