Public Health is for Everyone An inclusive planning toolkit for public health professionals

The Florida Center for Inclusive Communities (FCIC) has developed health and wellness brochures to provide individuals with developmental disabilities with important information about living a healthy life. All brochures are available to download as pdfs documents. This brochure provides information about sleeping difficulties, the importance of sleep, and resources for help with sleep difficulties. 

For health professionals providing tobacco cessation services for people with mental illness and substance use disorders.

Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act requires public accommodations to provide goods and services to people with disabilities on an equal basis with the rest of the general public. The goal is to afford every individual the opportunity to benefit from our country's businesses and services, and to afford our businesses and services the opportunity to benefit from the patronage of all Americans. This resources provides a checklist for existing facilities to follow to acheive barrier removal. 

US Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division

The Paralysis Resource Center promotes the health and well-being of people living with a spinal cord injury, mobility impairment, and paralysis by providing comprehensive information, resources and referral services.

This fact sheet shows a snapshot of tobacco usage among people with disabilities in the United States.

This fact sheet describes person first language and communicating with people with disabilities.

The Community Action Guide outlines the principle underlying community engagement and strategies for successful engagement. It's a practical hands-on guide that includes step-by-step descriptions of the community engagement process, checklists for conducting successful events, toos for assessing the access in a given community. examples of how the community Engagement Initiative process has been applied.

This site provides three tiers of competencies that correlate to the essential public health services. Competencies include working with diverse populations and looking at health and social determinants.

In all states, people with disabilities are more likely to report costs being a barrier to care compared to people without disabilities. Interested in your state? Use this resource to determine how costs might limit access to health care among people with disabilities compared to those without.

National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD)

This website provides links to good-quality, cost-free resources for Medical Homes (i.e., primary health care providers and their patients/families), educators, and health care trainees for care coordination in behavioral and developmental pediatrics. The site also links to free training modules and other resources.