- Hef Matthews
2019 Disability Inclusion Awareness Calendar
Check out 2020's Diversity, Inclusion and Disability Awareness Calendar
Creating diverse and inclusive workplaces for people with disabilities requires that we recognize the events and organizations that help to bring awareness to the wide variety of annual health, disability awareness and inclusion campaigns.
As a result, to help guide community organizations providing services to people with disabilities and the employers hiring those individuals, Disability Solutions has assembled this list of annual days and months for the 2019 calendar year that promote awareness and inclusion for the disability community.
January
January 4 – World Braille Day
January 21 – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
January 24 – Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day
January 26 – Kawasaki Disease Awareness Day
January 27 – World Leprosy Day
January 30 – CTE Awareness Day
February
Black History Month (African-American History Month)
February 1 – Go Red for Women Day (American Heart Association)
February 2 – Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness Day
February 4 – World Cancer Day
February 7-14 – Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) Awareness Week
February 27 – Anosmia Awareness Day
February 28 – Rare Disease Day
March
Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month
Developmental Disabilities Month
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Awareness Month
Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
March 1 – International Wheelchair Day
March 5 – Multiple Personality Day
March 8 – International Women’s Day
March 21 – World Down Syndrome Day
March 26 – Purple Day for Epilepsy
April
Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Awareness Month
April 2 – World Autism Awareness Day
April 7 – World Health Day
April 11 – Parkinson’s Disease International Awareness Day
May
Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month
Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month
May 1 – Global Developmental Delay Awareness Day
May 7 – World Asthma Day
May 10 – World Lupus Day
May 12 – International Awareness Day for Chronic Immunological and Neurological Diseases (CIND)
May 16 – Global Accessibility Awareness Day
May 30 – World Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Awareness Day
June
June 2 – National Cancer Survivors Day
June 27 – U.S. National Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Day
July
July 4 – Independence Day
July 26 – ADA Awareness Day
July 28 – World Hepatitis Day
August
August 7 – Purple Heart Day
August 21 – National Senior Citizens Day
August 26 – Women’s Equality Day
September
Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Month
Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month
September 2 – Labor Day
September 10 – World Suicide Prevention Day
September 15 – World Lymphoma Awareness Day
September 21 – World Alzheimer’s Day
September 23 – International Day of Sign Languages
September 29 – World Heart Day
October
National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM)
Learning Disabilities Awareness Month
October 6 – World Cerebral Palsy Day
October 10 – World Mental Health Day
October 10 – World Blind Day / World Sight Day
October 25 – Spina Bifida Awareness Day
November
Prostate Cancer / Men’s Health Awareness Month National Family Caregivers Month
November 11 – Veterans Day
November 14 – World Diabetes Day
November 16 – International Day for Tolerance
November 21 – World COPD Day
December
December 1 – World AIDS Day
December 3 – International Day of People with Disabilities
December 3 – Giving Tuesday
December 10 – Human Rights Day
If you have any suggestions for other health and disability days and months that should be listed on this site, please email us at info@disabilitytalent.org.
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