developmental disability

Media Coverage from the Past Week and a Big Announcement From Ford, Google, and the City of Detroit

Media Coverage from the Past Week and a Big Announcement From Ford, Google, and the City of Detroit

Knowing your goals is crucial to successful media outreach. Having a great story, relevant to the news cycle will also help you secure meaningful media attention. Here is just a sample of the media our team at North Coast Strategies secured this week.

Media Coverage from this past week featuring art festivals, art by people with disabilities, electric vehicles, and carbon capture technology

Media Coverage from this past week featuring art festivals, art by people with disabilities, electric vehicles, and carbon capture technology

It continues to be a busy week with our clients with two major events this weekend including UNESCO’s Detroit’s Month of Design and the Common Ground Birmingham Street Art Fair, benefiting Common Ground and their mission of bringing people from crises to hope. You can learn more about UNESCO’s Detroit’s Month of Design by watching this great story by Hilary Golston from FOX 2 News in Detroit. We also worked with Carey Biron at Reuters to focus on how LanzaTech is turning pollution into products we are using every day and with Liz Morrison from GreenBiz who wrote an amazing story to help all better understand electric vehicles and what companies and government can do to make them more affordable.

Removing Barriers to Employment for People With Disabilities

Removing Barriers to Employment for People With Disabilities

October is U.S. National Disability Employment Awareness Month and while many people struggle to find a job, it is even more difficult if you have a disability. Read the story of 9 people who received the training and found a job, even in the midst of a pandemic.

PLAYGROUND DETROIT brings artists with disabilities into the gallery for its’ first exhibition of 2018

PLAYGROUND DETROIT brings artists with disabilities into the gallery for its’ first exhibition of 2018

In their first exhibition of 2018, PLAYGROUND DETROIT will feature 100 works by 70 different artists, all of whom have a developmental disability. The exhibition, “What Color Do You Want to Start With?”  starts with an evening opening reception on Thursday, January 25, 2018, from 6-9P, and runs until February 3, 2018. Gallery hours are Wednesday-Friday, 12-6p and Saturday, 12-4P. 

It's time you hire more people with a disability

It's time you hire more people with a disability

October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month which gives us a chance to celebrate companies that employ people with disabilities and embrace diversity and inclusion practices, and raise awareness for those companies that don’t.  Services to Enhance Potential (STEP) and other Community Rehabilitation Organizations, are preparing individuals with developmental disabilities for these opportunities.  Every day these organizations work with thousands of individuals with disabilities helping prepare them for work opportunities.  Additionally, efforts are taken to work with the potential employer to assure the individual’s transition to the work place is a smooth one and the employer needs continue to be met.