Section 8: Disability Justice, Policy, and Institutional Change
Area 1: Organizational Policies & Capacity Building
Area 2: Abolition, Violence Prevention, and Organizations
Area 3: Financing for Violence Prevention & Accessibility
Area 4: Organizational Culture
Summary
In this session, learners will find resources and tools to build a comprehensive accessibility/disability policy at the organizational level for service provision agencies, guidance on providing affirming and accessible survivor services, financing accessibility, and shifting organizational cultures.
Area 1: Organizational Policies & Capacity Building
Inclusion @ Work: A Framework for Building a Disability-Inclusive Organization Toolkit and Training Courses by the Employer Assistance and Resource Network on Disability Inclusion (EARN). Description: EARN presents a framework for creating inclusive workplace cultures with people with disabilities. Their modules include 1. Lead the Way: Inclusive Business Culture, 2. Build the Pipeline: Outreach & Recruitment, 3. Hire & Keep the Best: Talent Acquisition & Retention Process, 4. Ensure Productivity: Reasonable Accommodations, 5. Communicate: Company Policies & Practices, 6. Be Tech Savvy: Accessible Information & Communication Technology, 7. Measure Success: Accountability & Self-Identification, and 8. Resources. Each section provides a variety of resources to allow self-guided capacity building. Each training module video is about 10-15 minutes.
Centering Survivors with Disabilities in Your Organizational Policies: 2 Webinars by End Abuse of People with Disabilities. Description: This two-part webinar series examines key policies that victim service and disability organizations should have in place to account for unique circumstances in the lives of survivors with disabilities, including personal care attendants, service animals, and guardianship.
Digital Accessibility Basics: Tookit by The Partnership on Employment & Accessible Technology (PEAT). Description: A collection of articles that provide guidance on how to create more accessible digital content. Content is compiled under the following topics: 1. Making documents accessible, 2. Seven Steps to Make Your Virtual Presentations Accessible, 3. Planning Accessible ERG Events, 4. Accessibility Principles for Website Images, 5. Creating Accessible Data Visualizations on the Web, 6. Social Media Accessibility, 7. Writing Accessible Emails, 8. Video Accessibility Principles, 9. Making Web Content Accessible, 10. Ten Tips for An Accessible Website.\
JAN Workplace Accommodation: Toolkit by The Job Accommodation Network (JAN). Description: toolkit provides resources for employers to go beyond compliance to build inclusive, equitable workplaces. Sample policies and emerging policies are presented in both text and video formats.
Organizational Assessment Tool: Toolkit by Indiana Disability Justice. Description: A resource for organizations to assess their success and to identify opportunities for improvement in creating accessible services, contributing to violence prevention against people with disabilities, and applying trauma-informed principles in serving survivors with disabilities. This toolkit includes a policy checklist, references and resources, and opportunities for guidance, support, and technical assistance from IDJ.
Area 2: Abolition, Violence Prevention, and Organizations
Removing Barriers Following Sexual Assault: Sexual Assault Forensic Exams for Survivors with Disabilities: 1 hour, 30 minutes by End Abuse of People with Disabilities. Description: There are many barriers for survivors of sexual assault who are seeking sexual assault medical forensic exam services to overcome, regardless of abilities. Those challenges can be compounded when the survivor has a disability. Service providers and medical professionals can help facilitate the process by ensuring an accessible process for all survivors. This webinar reviews the unique needs of survivors with disabilities and best practices for completing sexual assault exams to ensure a safe and accessible experience for all.
Providing Accessible and Effective Services to Survivors of Sexual Assault with Disabilities: 1 hour, 30 minutes webinar by End Abuse of People with Disabilities. Description: The webinar features a panel comprised of a survivor with a disability, a national expert, and a local advocate, this webinar explores the unique barriers that people with disabilities have to navigate when seeking healing and the strategies that advocates can employ to proactively remove those barriers. The panelists provided practical guidance from their own experience to help you ensure that survivors with disabilities feel respected and supported within your programs.
On Mandated Reporting: What Happens After Harm Is Reported: 3 Page PDF by Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective. Description: An infographic that describes the process of mandated reporting followed by several sample scripts providers can use to communicate about the process to survivors.
Area 3: Financing for Violence Prevention & Accessibility
Budgeting for Access: Webpage by The University of Northern Colorado. Description: A collection of brief estimates for budgeting for venue specific costs, audio-visual aids, interpreters, and various translation services.
Budgeting for Accessibility: Three Part Course by End Abuse of People with Disabilities. Description: A digital part course developed that includes three sections including 1. Understanding Access Costs for Events, 2. Creating a Budget to Support Access, and 3. Reflecting Access in the Conference Request Form.
Resourcing Our Disability Justice Movements featuring Kiyomi Fujikawa: 1 hour, 30 minutes webinar by The Fireweed Collective. Description: What would it look like to have our movements fully resourced? How much money is out there and how can we break down the barriers that prevent money from flowing to the places where it's most needed and best positioned to make change? Join Kiyomi Fujikawa, Co-Director of Third Wave Fund, for an overview of philanthropy. Kiyomi will talk through the current landscape of philanthropy, discuss the state of Disability Justice funding, and offer some insights on what this funding may look like in the future. She will also share her perspective on some key questions when thinking about engaging with philanthropy. Please note: this will not be a space to prospect any individual funders, but more talk about the funding landscape.
Area 4: Organizational Culture
Seeing, Reckoning, & Acting: A Practice Toward Deep Equity: Webpage by Change Elemental. Description: An organizational process for listening, reflecting, reckoning with, and implementing organizational change that brings the organization closer to becoming an equitable anti-violence organization.
Resilience for Advocates Through Foundational Training (RAFT): 5 Part Course by RAFT. Description: Course that offers a series of workshops for sexual and domestic violence organizations to build resilience, as individuals and as organizations. In addition to their workshops, RAFT offers monthly advocate calls, emerging leadership calls, and executive leadership calls to promote supportive spaces for peers to engage.
Whose Security is it Anyway? A Toolkit to Address Institutional Violence in Nonprofit Organizations: Toolkit by Project NIA. Description: Institutional violence within community centers, healthcare organizations, and social services, in concert with the “helping” industry’s increasing collusion with and reliance on law enforcement, fuels the prison pipeline. In response to pervasive institutional violence and increasing policing, surveillance, and targeting of queer and TGNB (trans and gender non-binary) youth of color, street-based youth, and youth experiencing houselessness, Project NIA created a toolkit to share strategies of resistance to the increased securitization of non-profit spaces.