Getting Started
Bring full participation of people with disabilities in your faith community by:
- Form an Accessibility Committee
- Identify Barriers
- Make a Plan
Our Doors Are Open offers faith communities creative ideas and guidance to increase inclusion and accessibility for people with disabilities.
Resources & Guidance
Our Doors Are Open has free help and support for your community:
- Free Our Doors are Open Services
- Quick Accessibility Tips
- Accessibility and Inclusion Resources
- Our Doors are Open Guide
Participating Communities
Learn who is participating in Our Doors are Open:
- Find welcoming communities and congregations
- Participating organizations
- Project photo album
NEW Mapathon. Join us https://t.co/gxIeBumeBs
Our Doors Are Open Workshop in Barrie Public Library,
Wednesday, November 28, 6:00-8:00 PM Online registration: https://t.co/EgLifapt0P Phone registration: 1-800-465-1133 https://t.co/BFDatDl0yZ
Inclusion is always a key to Open the doors of your faith community.
Dementia and religion: Songs and stuffed animals instead of sermons - Religion News Service
religionnews.com
RICHLANDTOWN, Pa. (RNS) — 'Spirit Alive,' a multisensory worship service for people with mid- to late-stage dementia, features a chaplain leading songs, holding up colorful pictures and passing out soft toys.“For all the parents, caregivers, families and children in the fight, know you are not alone. And your fight isn’t your own –it’s all of ours and we are in this together. Because our children deserve the world and we won’t stop until we build it for them. And so together, we fight.”
"We were tired, discouraged and longing for community. A place of rest and refreshment always seemed out of reach for our family’s special needs. At one point, we didn’t attend church for a year." Our Doors Are Open helps community to be a welcoming community.
Perspective | Kids with disabilities face many challenges. Church shouldn’t be one of them.
washingtonpost.com
Children with certain types of chronic health conditions are much less likely to attend religious services — perhaps because of how they are treated there.