2020 Diversity, Inclusion and Disability Awareness Calendar
Creating diverse and inclusive workplaces for people with disabilities allows us to recognize and support organizations that help bring awareness to a wide variety of annual health, disability awareness and inclusion campaigns.
As a result, to help guide community organizations providing services to people with disabilities and the employers hiring those individuals, Disability Solutions has assembled a list of annual days and months for the 2020 calendar year that promotes awareness and inclusion for the disability community.
January
January 4 – World Braille Day​​
January 14 – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
January 24 – Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day
January 26 – Kawasaki Disease Awareness Day
January 27 – World Leprosy Day
January 30 – CTE Awareness Day
February
February 2 – Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness Day
February 4 – World Cancer Day
February 7 – Go Red for Women Day (American Heart Association)
February 9-15 – Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) Awareness Week
February 17 – Random Acts of Kindness Day
February 23 - February 29 – National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
February 27 – Anosmia Awareness Day
February 29 – Rare Disease Day
March
March 1 – International Wheelchair Day​​
March 5 – Multiple Personality Day
March 8 – International Women’s Day​​
March 21 – World Down Syndrome Day
March 24 – World Tuberculosis Day
March 26 – Purple Day for Epilepsy
March 30 – World Bipolar Day
April
April 2 – World Autism Awareness Day
April 7 – World Health Day
April 11 – Parkinson’s Disease International Awareness Day
April 22 – Earth Day
May
May 1 – International Labor Day
May 5 – World Asthma Day
May 10 – World Lupus Day
May 10 - May 16 – Women's Health Week
May 12 – Fibromyalgia Awareness Day
May 14 – Apraxia Awareness Day
May 15 - June 15 – Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month
May 21 – Global Accessibility Awareness Day
May 24 – World Schizophrenia Day
May 25 – Memorial Day
May 30 – World Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Awareness Day
June
June 7 – National Cancer Survivors Day
July
July 4 – Independence Day​​
July 26 – ADA Awareness Day
July 28 – World Hepatitis Day
August​​​
August 7 – Purple Heart Day​​
August 17 – National Nonprofit Day
August 21 – National Senior Citizens Day
August 26 – Women’s Equality Day
September
September 2 – Labor Day
September 10 – World Suicide Prevention Day
September 15 – World Lymphoma Awareness Day
September 21 – World Alzheimer’s Day
September 23 – International Day of Sign Languages
September 29 – World Heart Day
October
October 4 - October 10 – Mental Health Awareness Week
October 6 – World Cerebral Palsy Day
October 8 – World Blind Day / World Sight Day
October 10 – World Arthritis Day
October 10 – World Mental Health Day
October 24 – United Nations Day
October 25 – World Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Day
November
​November 11 – Veterans Day​​
November 13 – World Kindness Day
November 14 – World Diabetes Day
November 16 – International Day for Tolerance
November 18 – World COPD Day
November 21 – Pancreatic Cancer Day
December​​
December 1 – World AIDS Day​​
December 1 – Giving Tuesday
December 3 – International Day of People with Disabilities
December 10 – Human Rights Day
If you have any suggestions for other health and disability days and months that should be listed on this site, please email us at info@disabilitytalent.org.
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