I was thinking over the last few weeks that a huge thanks is in store for what we have done thus far. The thanks isn't for the programs we have completed or the operational structure we are still climbing on our future success. It's what this team does for us individually any why we are here.
I can honestly say if it wasn't for this team and the discussions, the collaboration, the messaging we want our members and people in our communities to hear...... I wouldn't have "checked" the box for as an individual w/ a disability. For what I am recently working on and when the question was asked..... over my 15 years here in my current organization I've always skipped over it, chose NOT to answer it and/or simply avoided it.
So it's a huge thanks to what we have done w/ Disability:IN that my most recent need for this to come up.... it wasn't skipped, it wasn't avoided.... it was answered accurately. If I am asking people within my organization to have the ability to come forward and/or raise their hand for help/support/education/awareness...... I have to do it to.