Disability Inclusion Resources
Information to educate and equip our community to include people with disabilities in all aspects of life.
To build inclusive communities, it's important to have good relationships with neighbors. The following information explains:
- Why more people with disabilities choose to live in the community
- The types of homes they live in
- How everyone can work together, so everyone feels welcomed and respected
Fact Sheet #1: History and Advocacy
Fact Sheet #2: What are "Group Homes"
Fact Sheet #3: Supporting Inclusive Communities
Fact Sheet #4: Talking to Your Neighbors
Fact Sheet #5: Being a Good Neighbor Applies to Everyone
Communities For All
From 2024-2026, Dakota County and Minnesota Department of Human Services funded Communities For All. This was a pilot project seeking to advance disability inclusion. Learn about the county’s efforts to strengthen accessibility and inclusion by engaging businesses and community partners.
Communities for All Initiative: A Lasting Impact in Dakota County
Learn about disability
Discover disability, why it matters, and how inclusion benefits everyone.
- Diversity for Social Impact: Includes types of disability list, the latest disability statistics, and how to promote a diverse and inclusive workplace, classroom and society
- Disability & Philanthropy Forum: Explains how disability is defined and the “models of disability."
- Video: Disability is Beauty
Words matter. Learn how to use people-first or identity-first language.
- United Spinal Association: Disability etiquette
- National Center on Disability and Journalism: Disability language style guide
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Communicating about and with people with disabilities.
Learn how to identify and address unconscious bias.
- Sacramento State: Ableism: What it is, what it looks like, and what we can do to fix it
- Everyday Activism Network: How to Be Anti-Ableist & Promote Disability Inclusion
- Video: Things People with Disabilities Wish You Knew: Insights that can bridge the gap between misperception and acceptance.
- Video: I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much: Comedian Stella Young at TEDxSydney 2014 discussing a flaw in the way our society views disability. That disabled people are inspirational for achieving very ordinary things and how this inspiration is actually pity in disguise.