October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), which celebrates the value and talent that workers with disabilities add to the workplace. NDEAM’s purpose is to “confirm our commitment to ensuring that workers with disabilities have access to good jobs, every month of every year.”

Join a Reasonable Accommodation Lunch and Learn

Disability Management Services (DMS) is offering a Reasonable Accommodation Lunch and Learn on Wednesday, Oct. 23 from noon – 1 p.m. Join and ask questions about the interactive process and reasonable accommodations: 

Meeting ID: 974 1541 1490 
Password: 992048
Lunch and Learn Zoom link 

Awareness campaign

To help members of the UCSF community learn about the support available to individuals with disabilities, DMS is engaged in an awareness campaign. You may see us on campus distributing flyers at your work location or we may be sending you a flyer by email and asking you to post it in your breakroom.  If you don’t receive a flyer, reach out to your assigned DMS Analyst as well. 

Disability inclusion at work is about more than hiring people with disabilities. UCSF strives to be an inclusive workplace, embracing individual differences and valuing all employees for the strengths they bring to their jobs. Disability inclusion offers employees with disabilities an equal opportunity to succeed, to learn, to be compensated fairly and to advance.  

UCSF’s DMS team partners with staff, faculty, residents, fellows, postdoctoral scholars, and student employees whose disability impacts their ability to be at work or return to work. In support of workplace diversity and employee retention, DMS provides guidance on the interactive process and reasonable accommodations. Our processes help support our employees to continue working and helps the university to continue benefiting from their experience.  

What do we know about disabilities:  

• Most people will experience a disabling condition at some point in their lives 
• Employing individuals with disabilities expands the labor pool 
• Patients of various backgrounds tend to feel more comfortable with physicians like them 
• Having mentors and colleagues with disabilities fosters understanding of different abilities and perspectives, and creates an environment that challenges negative biases  

Additional resources

The Office of Disability Access and Inclusion is another UCSF resource for individuals with disabilities.