The California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) and its supporting departments, invite you to celebrate Disability Pride Month. Through virtual and in-person events, CNRA departments, commissions, and conservancies will be honoring disabled leaders in the environmental field who work to protect the environment for current and future generations and encourage others to become environmental stewards.
Celebrate this year’s Disability Pride Month with our theme “Awareness Empowers, Inclusion Strengthens: Know Us, Know California.” This theme underscores how understanding and recognizing the experiences of individuals with disabilities empowers and how inclusive practices strengthens and unifies California. Join us in a series of events and activities designed to empower voices, foster thoughtful reflection, and inspire meaningful action for a brighter, more inclusive future.
Special thanks to the Department of Rehabilitation for their partnership and invaluable contributions to launch Disability Pride Month programming at the California Natural Resources Agency.
Webinar/Panel: Secretary Speaker Series - Disability Pride Month
Date: Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Time: Noon - 1pm
Title: Celebrating Disability Pride: Embracing Diversity and Achieving Inclusion in the Workplace
Description: In honor of Disability Pride Month, join Secretary Crowfoot to discuss the importance of disability inclusion in the workplace and explore how embracing a diverse workforce with individuals of all abilities can truly benefit your organization. The discussion will cover key points like the power of disability representation in fostering a positive company culture, leveraging the unique skills and perspectives of disabled employees to drive innovation, creating accessible work environments for all, dismantling unconscious bias to cultivate respect, and sharing best practices for building a truly inclusive workforce that benefits everyone.
Register here to join:
https://ca-water-gov.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BlEPbsQiTkKVp6qx6wJ1JQ
Title: Disability Pride Month Outdoor Event
Date: Saturday July 27, 2024
Time: 8:30am-11:00am
Description: In celebration of both Disability Pride Month and ‘Parks Make Life Better’ Month, we are hosting a wildfire resilience and invasive species removal volunteer event at Howe Park. This outdoor event highlights how investment in our parks and our community can make life better for everyone. Join us for a morning volunteer event at 8:30am followed by refreshments and an accessible nature walk around the park 10am. Attendees are welcome to join both or either portion of the event.
Zoom Registration/Link/Sign up (if needed): https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=UlYdt4NLV0KvzX_Rd4hFZPYxrUOAL4ZBrsWC0o_6j6NUNkwySzJHNUJRNE9IV1E3SVMzWk9JVloyOC4u
Title: Career Panel: Inclusion Strengthens California
Date: Wednesday July 31, 2024
Time: Noon - 1pm
Description: An inspirational panel on the topic of starting and maintaining a career in the Natural Resources Agencies. With a focus on persons with disabilities and how they can build a future with the CNRA family of Departments. Panelists will share the experiences and knowledge both from personal experience as an employee with a disability, and as hiring/recruitment managers and field experts. Come learn and celebrate with us this Disability Pride Month.
Register here to join: https://dor-ca-gov.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DHM8MChNRTKsZdet2VEkCQ
Disability Pride Month
July is Disability Pride Month, an annual celebration of differing abilities that connects back to the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, a ruling prohibiting discrimination against people with disabilities. This is a time to honor and uplift the identities, resilience and contributions of disabled people across our country. The disability pride flag colors symbolize a variety of experiences:
- Red: physical disabilities
- Gold: cognitive and intellectual disabilities
- White: nonvisible and undiagnosed disabilities
- Blue: psychiatric disabilities
- Green: sensory disabilities
- Black: honoring those who have died due to negligence, suicide, rebellion, illness, and eugenics
