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Parish Leadership Meeting: Universal Design for Parishes: A framework for making parishes everyone's home

Pastoral Response to Persons with Mental Illness

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What Does a Dementia-Friendly Parish Look Like?

LAMB Inclusive Participation Tool. Painting of a Lamb.

Inclusive Participation Assessment Tool

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Strategic Components for Successfully Working with Individuals with ASD

Tips for Welcoming People with Disabilities at Mass

Pastoral Response to Persons with Mental Illness

Learn about what parishes can do to support people with mental illness, suicide prevention, mental illness and addiction, the "four legs of recovery," and the work of NCPD's Council on Mental Illness.

Inclusive Participation Assessment Tool

LAMB: Language, Accessibility, Meaningful Participation, Belonging

Strategic Components for Successfully Working with Individuals with ASD

Here are some strategies that can be used with individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Not every child responds to every tactic. Choose the best strategies for the individual child. These ideas can also be used with children with other needs than autism, such as intellectual/developmental disabilities.

Access Surveys

The importance of thoughtful and careful planning for any ministry cannot be overemphasized. Planning should likewise be approached with creativity and openness. The following questions can initiate the planning process toward a universally designed ministry: What does it mean to create a church community open to all?

National Catholic
Partnership on Disability

Advancing the Meaningful Participation
of Persons with Disabilities in Church and Society

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