What Can YOU Do? Outreach Toolkit

Promote the Campaign for Disability Employment in Your Organization or Local Community!

You can help us bring the Campaign for Disability Employment to life in your own state, municipality or company. The following ideas and materials can help:

Issue a Campaign for Disability Employment press release – Organizations can issue a press release to local media to announce their support of the What Can YOU Do? effort. To assist, a “fill-in-the-blank” template is available that organizations can quickly customize and pitch to their local media.

Create a disability employment display – Now is a great time to freshen up bulletin boards in locations that employees or constituents frequent by posting positive messages about the importance of a flexible and inclusive workplace. Start by printing and displaying one of our What Can YOU Do? posters.

Feature the Campaign for Disability Employment in your newsletter or Intranet – The Campaign for Disability Employment offers timely and fresh content for member outreach, employee newsletters, publications and internal Web sites. Feel free to reproduce one or more of our "drop-in" articles or run our ad copy page in your publication.

Hold an event celebrating the What Can YOU Do? campaign – A social event with plenty of food, fun and educational programming can help reinforce the importance of an inclusive workplace. Enlist a speaker to deliver disability employment talking points and play the “I Can” public service announcement at the event. You could also invite local employers and employees with disabilities to share their experiences and insights.

Employers and organizations that conduct these or any other activities in support of the

Campaign for Disability Employment are encouraged to let us know.

DOWNLOADABLE OUTREACH
TOOLS:

What Can YOU Do? Posters
Several versions available

Campaign for Disability Employment Fact Sheet
Standard size fact sheet that may be reproduced and distributed

Customizable Press Release
Fill-in-the blank template for organizations to customize and pitch to their local media

Ready-to-Publish Articles
“Drop-in” articles for use in your own publication

What Can YOU Do? Logo
For use on organizations’ Web sites and Intranets

“I Can” PSA
For use on organizations’ Web sites and Intranets

Campaign for Disability
Employment Talking Points
For incorporation into speeches, editorials and e-mail alerts