Effective Practices Provided by the National Service Inclusion Project (NSIP)
Focus: Disability Inclusion and Legal Responsibilities
- Adopting strategies for making national and community service programs disability friendly
- Applying universal design principles in an educational setting
- Asking for documentation when reasonable accommodation is requested
- Employing ten outreach strategies when recruiting individuals with disabilities
- Facilitating volunteering benefits for people with disabilities
- Going beyond simulations to promote education about people with disabilities
- Including people with disabilities when recruiting for national service
- Integrating service-learning in individual educational plans for primary school students with disabilities
- Interviewing potential applicants using an inclusive process
- Making presentations accessible
- Overcoming barriers and creating opportunities for people with developmental disabilities in national service programs
- Preparing people with disabilities for evacuation, shelter, and recovery during national emergencies
- Promoting inclusion in mentoring
- Providing older volunteers with adaptive products to enable them to continue to serve
- Providing reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities
- Understanding the principles of universal design
- Understanding when substance abuse is a disability
- Using person-first language to speak about members and volunteers
- Using positive approaches to inclusion during a meeting and conference: a case study
- Utilizing volunteers with disabilities in Senior Corps programs
- Writing inclusive service descriptions
Additional effective practices related to disability inclusion.