{"id":92193,"date":"2022-10-07T09:54:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T14:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=92193"},"modified":"2022-10-07T14:03:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T19:03:20","slug":"october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"October marks awareness month for national disability employment and Down syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

October shines awareness on two issues of importance to the Munroe-Meyer Institute: National Disability Employment Awareness Month and Down Syndrome Awareness Month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

National Disability Employment Awareness Month recognizes how individuals with disabilities contribute to the workforce and the economy. This year\u2019s theme is \u201cDisability: Part of the Equity Equation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information on the month, see MMI\u2019s online toolkit<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Down Syndrome Awareness Month raises awareness and celebrates the many abilities of loved ones with Down syndrome, according to the National Down Syndrome Society. It seeks to break down barriers and focus on promoting advocacy for people with Down syndrome, the organization says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See more information from the National Down Syndrome Society online<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both links have social media tools available to promote awareness. Hashtags are: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

#NDEAM  #NDEAM2022  #DisabilityEmployment #InclusionWorks<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or <\/p>\n\n\n\n

#DownSyndromeAwarenessMonth<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See this article for links to more information online and social media tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":92213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","topic-community","department-munroe-meyer-institute","author_override-jeff-robb-unmc-strategic-communications"],"yoast_head":"\nOctober marks awareness month for national disability employment and Down syndrome<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"See this article for links to more information online and social media tools.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"October marks awareness month for national disability employment and Down syndrome\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"See this article for links to more information online and social media tools.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Newsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/unmcedu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-10-07T14:54:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-10-07T19:03:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/NDEAM101022.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"678\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"453\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jeffrey Robb\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@unmc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@unmc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jeffrey Robb\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jeffrey Robb\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/person\/6c55382c243ff55b6c4dee62262b6a5c\"},\"headline\":\"October marks awareness month for national disability employment and Down syndrome\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-10-07T14:54:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-10-07T19:03:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/\"},\"wordCount\":147,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/NDEAM101022.png\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/\",\"name\":\"October marks awareness month for national disability employment and Down syndrome\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/NDEAM101022.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-10-07T14:54:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-10-07T19:03:20+00:00\",\"description\":\"See this article for links to more information online and social media tools.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/NDEAM101022.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/NDEAM101022.png\",\"width\":678,\"height\":453},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"October marks awareness month for national disability employment and Down syndrome\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/\",\"name\":\"Newsroom\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#organization\",\"name\":\"University of Nebraska Medical Center\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/overview-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/overview-1.png\",\"width\":500,\"height\":153,\"caption\":\"University of Nebraska Medical Center\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/unmcedu\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/unmc\",\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/iamunmc\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/UNMCEDU\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/person\/6c55382c243ff55b6c4dee62262b6a5c\",\"name\":\"Jeffrey Robb\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/author\/d09bf41544a3365a46c9077ebb5e35c3\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"October marks awareness month for national disability employment and Down syndrome","description":"See this article for links to more information online and social media tools.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"October marks awareness month for national disability employment and Down syndrome","og_description":"See this article for links to more information online and social media tools.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/","og_site_name":"Newsroom","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/unmcedu","article_published_time":"2022-10-07T14:54:42+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-10-07T19:03:20+00:00","og_image":[{"width":678,"height":453,"url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/NDEAM101022.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Jeffrey Robb","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@unmc","twitter_site":"@unmc","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jeffrey Robb","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/"},"author":{"name":"Jeffrey Robb","@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/person\/6c55382c243ff55b6c4dee62262b6a5c"},"headline":"October marks awareness month for national disability employment and Down syndrome","datePublished":"2022-10-07T14:54:42+00:00","dateModified":"2022-10-07T19:03:20+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/"},"wordCount":147,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/NDEAM101022.png","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/","url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/","name":"October marks awareness month for national disability employment and Down syndrome","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/NDEAM101022.png","datePublished":"2022-10-07T14:54:42+00:00","dateModified":"2022-10-07T19:03:20+00:00","description":"See this article for links to more information online and social media tools.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/NDEAM101022.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/NDEAM101022.png","width":678,"height":453},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/10\/07\/october-marks-awareness-month-for-national-disability-employment-and-down-syndrome\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"October marks awareness month for national disability employment and Down syndrome"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/","name":"Newsroom","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#organization","name":"University of Nebraska Medical Center","url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/overview-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/overview-1.png","width":500,"height":153,"caption":"University of Nebraska Medical Center"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/unmcedu","https:\/\/x.com\/unmc","https:\/\/instagram.com\/iamunmc","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/UNMCEDU"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/person\/6c55382c243ff55b6c4dee62262b6a5c","name":"Jeffrey Robb","url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/author\/d09bf41544a3365a46c9077ebb5e35c3\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92241,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92193\/revisions\/92241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}