Disability.gov Launches "What's Your Connection?" Initiative

There are nearly 57 million individuals with disabilities in the United States, and they are all connected to the people around them in some way. They are sons and daughters, sisters and brothers, parents and grandparents, coworkers, neighbors and friends. What’s Your Connection? emphasizes the connections among all people and reinforces the idea that people with disabilities are not separate, but an integral part of American society.

People nationwide are being asked to share how having a disability or knowing someone with one has touched their lives by submitting a photograph (in JPG format) with a 250-word maximum caption to disability@dol.gov, or uploading a captioned, one-minute YouTube video that answers the question, “What’s Your Connection?”

The initiative will run for nine months, from October 30, 2012 to July 31, 2013.

Please help Disability.gov spread the word about this new initiative. Here are some ideas:

Add a link to www.disability.gov/home/newsroom/what%27s_your_connection on your website;
Publish an article about the What’s Your Connection? initiative in your newsletter and other publications;
Send an e-blast about the What’s Your Connection? initiative to your members and/or other stakeholders; and
Place a news item about the What’s Your Connection? initiative on your website, blog, Facebook page or Twitter feed.

Visit the Disability.gov online toolkit (http://1.usa.gov/S8xU0n) for outreach materials, such as a sample news article and social media posts.