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Including People with Disabilities: Public Health Workforce Competencies
The Including People with Disabilities – Public Health Workforce Competencies are designed to increase the capacity of public health providers to include people with disabilities in their public health plans and efforts. Designed specifically for professionals already working in the public health field, the competencies provide foundational knowledge around the relationship between disability and public health programs and outcomes.
Competencies pdf | Competencies website
Public Health is for Everyone is an online toolkit that serves as a one-stop resource to increase the capacity of public health professionals to create programs that benefit entire communities, including people who have disabilities. The PHEtoolkit provides public health professionals with resources to enhance their planning efforts in key issue areas.
Foundational Principles for Sustainable Inclusion of People with Intellectual Disability
The Foundational Principles for Sustainable Inclusion of People with Intellectual Disability, developed in collaboration with Special Olympics International, supports national-level organizations to adopt and promote inclusive approaches to health for people with intellectual disability (ID). This resource provides organizations with the necessary principles and guidelines to ensure the full and sustainable inclusion of people with ID in health policies and laws, programming, services, training programs, research, and funding streams.
Prepared4ALL: Whole Community Inclusive Emergency Planning
Prepared4ALL: Whole Community Inclusive Emergency Planning offers an approach for building relationships between local disability organizations and public health planners and emergency managers, while learning about disability inclusion and the emergency management system.
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Supporting Data
Disability Impacts All of Us: Infographics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describing how disability has effect people.
Disability Prevalence Data: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on the prevalence of disabilities and health care access by disability status and type among adults in the United States.
National Information and Reporting System (NIRS): NIRS is the national, web-based data reporting and retrieval system for the AUCD Network. NIRS houses data on programs, projects, activities, and products across a variety of public health issues.
National Center Approach
Through our practice-based research, Inclusion Wheel: Tool for Building Capacity and Public Health Leaders to Serve People With Disabilities, we have identified five key ways to support inclusion of people who have disabilities in public health efforts. Use of facilitative leadership, taking advantage of timing, systematic reflection, sufficient support and personal commitment are key supports to make inclusion happen.
These five areas contribute to successful outcomes. These areas serve as the framework approach for the National Center and the communities of practice we facilitate. Let us know how we can work together support public health leaders to serve people with disabilities.