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March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month
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DD Awareness Month Is Coming Soon!

March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month!

The campaign seeks to raise awareness about the inclusion of people with developmental disabilities in all facets of community life, as well as awareness to the barriers that people with disabilities still sometimes face in connecting to the communities in which they live.

We want to use this campaign to showcase with audiences all across the country the excellent work DD Councils, organizations and individuals are doing, and we encourage you to take part! As in past years, we will be updating our DDAM resource guide that will provide you with content to share on social media. We will be gathering resources including videos, blogs, toolkits and other shareable content, and you can use them however and whenever you want. If you have any resources or materials that you think should be included in the campaign, please send them to Rafael Rolon-Muniz at xxxxxx@nacdd.org.<mailto:xxxxxx@nacdd.org>

Get Involved!
Share Your Stories

We want to use this campaign to showcase the excellent work that is being done to celebrate and improve the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. If you have resources or materials that you think should be included and shared with this campaign, please send them to us! We will feature the submissions on our resource guide and they will be shared to audiences all across the country. Examples of resources include, but are in no way limited to, videos, toolkits, news articles, photos, personal stories, promising practices, etc. Share what events your community is doing to celebrate DD Awareness Month and show us how you are making a difference during March! With your help, we can make the DD Awareness Month campaign a success!

This resource guide will be updated with new resources every Monday throughout the month of March. If you have or know of a resource that you want to be included, please email Rafael at xxxxxx@nacdd.org<mailto:xxxxxx@nacdd.org>.

Remember to use the hashtag #DDawareness2021

Learn More
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Informational Kick-Off Webinar!

NACDD is holding a webinar for Councils and other organizations to learn more about the campaign and how to make sure you are involved. Please join us to get a first look at this year's logo, artwork, and hashtags, and we will also share some ideas for how to make the most of your own materials, posts, videos, articles.

The date of the webinar is:
February 16 2021 at 330pm ET
Join Zoom Meeting
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Passcode: 914553

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2021 DDAM Logo artwork by Eileen Schofield (Art Enables)

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