This flagship PSA was produced specifically for the Campaign for Disability Employment’s What Can YOU Do? campaign. It features seven real people – not actors – with hidden and obvious disabilities, demonstrating what they “can do” on the job when given the opportunity. Intended for television broadcast, we would like to see this PSA and its inspiring message distributed as widely as possible. We invite you to share it with others so we can all remember that at work, it’s what people can do that matters.
Watch the “I Can” PSA
On Thursday, October 22, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis convened a panel to discuss and answer audience questions about people with disabilities in the performing and visual arts. Before a standing room only audience in the DOL auditorium, Secretary Solis was joined by Assistant Secretary for Disability Employment Policy Kathleen Martinez, performance artist Fred Beam, and actor Robert David Hall, who portrays Dr. Al Robins on the popular TV show "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."
Click here and scroll down the page to learn more about the panel and the VSA arts exhibition, acknowledged during the panel discussion and organized by the Office of Disability Employment Policy. VSA arts is an international nonprofit organization founded 35 years ago by Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith to create a society where people with disabilities learn through, participate in, and enjoy the arts. Prominently displayed outside the Secretary’s office are selections from Greenlight, a juried exhibition of emerging artists with disabilities.
*NEW* Click here to view the video of the panel.
Do you have suggestions and ideas on transportation access that you would like to share with national leaders? The Federal Interagency Coordinating Council on Access and Mobility (CCAM) invites you to participate in a United We Ride National Dialogue to help communities increase access to affordable and reliable transportation services for people with disabilities, older adults and people with limited incomes. This two-week long, Web-based dialogue will begin on November 2 and end on November 13. Your invaluable participation will directly inform the work of the Federal government on future policy decisions and its strategic plan. ODEP strongly encourages you to register at www.UWRdialogue.org and to participate in the Dialogue.
ODEP’s collaboration with the U.S. Department of Transportation and other federal agencies has been critical to the development and on-going work of United We Ride. This federal interagency initiative supports States and their localities in developing coordinated human service delivery systems. For more information about United We Ride, http://www.unitedweride.gov/
Expectation + Opportunity = Full Participation
Disability is part of the natural diversity of human life. It touches all of us, whether through our own individual experience or that of a family member, neighbor, friend or colleague. As such, we all have a role in—and benefit to gain from—advancing equality for people with disabilities in all sectors of society, including the workplace.
