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The Resource Key Joins The Valuable Directory for Disability Inclusion

The Restaurant Redefining How to Build Community

  321 Coffee is a “coffee shop and roaster providing meaningful work opportunities to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.”

Equipping youth to process and tell their stories through photography.

A United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) funded program that provides support, education, and assistance to ranchers and farmers with disabilities.

Providing career skills training and employment services to individuals with disabilities to assist them in developing the skills they will need to secure a career within the entertainment industry earning a competitive wage.

Yes I Can Unity Through Music and Education

Technology-centered inclusion solution and employment platform for job seekers with disabilities, mental health conditions, and chronic illnesses. 

Photography and video exhibit – both online and in-studio – that showcases the food-related stories of eight disabled Canadians, eight Canadians from culturally diverse backgrounds, and eight Cowichan Valley food and beverage producers.

Cowichan Valley Disability, Culture and Food Through Art Exhibit

Input from the disabled community is a critical part of any company’s inclusivity efforts. Here’s how to seek out their perspectives.

How to include workers with disabilities in your DEI initiatives

THE Project Why is what comes to mind when starting, agreeing or pursuing any project.

Events have the capacity to bring about change, to create spaces to develop relationships to bring about change, and gather new information to use to bring about change.

Authentic Representation is so important.  Authentic is key because you can have representation without it being authentic. 

Music can be such a powerful tool for activism in the community, leadership through lyrics, and communicating authentic messages. 

Who are we designing for? What are we considering when we are designing? So many more questions that come to mind when designing and more importantly inclusive and accessible design. 

Stay Connected takes on a whole new meaning depending on the person, context, and environment.

Cornerstone OnDemand powers the future ready workforce. With adaptive HR software designed to unite people, teams, technology, and business, our products inspire a work environment of growth, agility, and success for all.  Cornerstone serves over 6,000 customers and 75 million users and is available in 180 countries and 50 languages. 

The Resource Key worked with Cornerstone to align with a training that they were creating about Neurodiversity in the Workplace.   We recruited people who had experience being neurodivergent in the workplace. These individuals were interviewed for the video trainings to ensure authentic storytelling and representation during the content development process. 

"Cornerstone helps organizations unite people growth with business success to create work environments that inspire growth, productivity, and success for all."  -Cornerstone OnDemand-

Quote from Sam Castleman from ABC Interview:  

"So I think the biggest lesson to take away is to embrace who you are.  We may not be able to perform the same tasks as neuro typical people but that's okay and as the world comes to understand us and accept us more, there's value in what we can do.  And it's just a matter of time until you find the right place, the right people who accept you for who you are."

GatherVerse is a global ecosystem where communities gather, discuss, document and share human centered approaches to the metaverse.  Some of the sponsors from previous events included HP and Meta.

The Resource Key partnered with GatherVerse to provide a thought-provoking talk that included insights from the accessibility perspective.  The metaverse is accelerating and has the capacity to improve our daily lives.  A discussion surrounding the opportunities to build accessibility at the core of the metaverse will be valuable to ensure everyone can take flight to the metaverse.  The metaverse will be a runway to unlimited opportunities for new and innovative ways of doing things by ensuring accessibility is embedded. 

"Bring the metaverse into a clearer, humanity centered view."  -GatherVerse-

Quote from Elliott from Teen Vogue Article:  

"Elliott, a 26-year-old Deaf disabled person of color says the main reason they use Apple products is because they’re the most accessible to them, and also the most compatible with other devices they use.

“On both my iPhone and iPad I use my Video Relay Service, a way for deaf people to make phone calls with an interpreter on screen to relay calls back and forth so I can have independence in my own calls,” Elliott says. “I also use the accessibility features to connect my hearing aids to my phone and iPad so I can route media sounds and more to stream directly to my hearing aids. The cool thing about Apple is they have an accessibility section just for hearing devices so it's very easy to connect everything and stream everything.”

NooshHub is a social enterprise that connects people through food, culture, and memories.  Creating a peer-to-peer kitchen table concept whereby food is the median to make displaced families whole again.

The Resource Key partnered with NooshHub to develop inclusive impact solutions as the food-tech platform continues to develop.  We are unlocking impact and community through building safe spaces for people to share their recipes, memories, and kitchen within their own traditions.

"Capturing the universal truth that food is a bridge...Connection is greater than our differences, more powerful and enduring than our conflicts." -NooshHub-

Quote from Melissa L. Caldwell, The Conversation from PBS News Hour Article:   

"Yet people with disabilities are underrepresented in accounts of pandemic-related poverty and food insecurity. Given their reduced access to food shopping, they are less likely to be included in research on disruptions to the food system. This is prompting demands from health researchers and disability activists for greater attention and solutions."

Food, Culture, and Inclusion Intersections

The Chicago Cultural Accessibility Consortium empowers Chicago’s cultural spaces to become more accessible to visitors with disabilities. They facilitate a dynamic community of cultural administrators and people with disabilities to remove barriers in the Chicago region’s cultural organizations.

The Resource Key worked with Chicago Cultural Accessibility Consortium to align with Engaging Individuals with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities in Virtual Programs Event.  The Resource Key spoke on a panel on the topic Facilitating Meaningful Experiences for All Learners by covering  key  strategies related to ways to engage individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities in virtual programs.  Participants of event ranged from cultural administrators from cultural spaces, like museums and theaters., people who work directly with public-facing departments, such as visitor services and front-of-house staff, exhibit designers, educators.

"We believe everyone deserves access to Chicago's rich arts and culture." -Chicago Cultural Accessibility Consortium

Quote from Roshunda Holt from AmeriDisability article:

"Artist Roshunda Holt’s piece, “Waterfall with Willow Tree,” is among the first of the work exhibited. Small and shiny ceramic pieces are combined to create a mosaic landscape depicting a waterfall that flows into a river on the horizon in front of a large willow tree. While the weeping willow tree symbolizes shade over sadness, the cascading water helps purify to wash it away and bring in new life. Its tactile and colorful surface allows for people to touch and experience the artwork with multiple senses other than just vision.  “Art cannot be put into a box — that’s what makes it special,” said Holt, who has been recognized by the American Printing House for the Blind, Annual Insight Art Exhibition in Louisville, Kentucky. “

Making Meaningful Connections in Virtual Art Programming

The University of Memphis Mid-South Access Center for Technology is not only involved with teacher and service provider education, but offers direct services to persons with disabilities. Professionals at the Mid-South ACT conduct evaluations/assessments and facilitate training. Professionals have expertise in areas such as: vision, assistive technology, literacy, early intervention, counseling, and augmentative communication, seating and positioning.

The Resource Key worked with The University of Memphis to align with Mid-South Access Center for Technology’s Virtual Reuse Event.   The Resource Key spoke on the topic of Inclusive and Accessible Social Media.  Practical tools and strategies to ensure social media is more inclusive and accessible were discussed.  Participants learned ways to advance diversity, equity and inclusion through social media and ensure people with disabilities are included.

"Advancing technologies and strategies to empower people with disabilities is at the core or research and activities within the Mid-South ACT." -Mid-South ACT-

"Considering this active consumer target, the missed opportunity to incorporate people with disabilities into everyday brand messaging could be costly. There is an opportunity for brands to incorporate depictions and experiences of life with a disability in their messaging and product designs without centering on it. The media, marketing and advertising industries have an opportunity to help break down social stigmas around disability by making people with disabilities more visible."

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Integration in Social Media

Amplify First-Person Stories

A Metaverse for All

Food, Culture, and Inclusion Intersections

Making Meaningful Connections in Virtual Art Programming

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Integration in Social Media

Let's Build Together