NCPD promotes this ever-evolving mission to renovate and sustain ministry to-and-with all people with disabilities and their families through the following initiatives:
Leads and participates in trainings, workshops, and regional meetings
Topics include:
- Meaningful participation in the Sacraments
- Accessible Parishes
- Catechetical Best Practices
- Workshops for Seminarians
Gathers and Develops Resources
- Revision of the USCCB Sacramental Guidelines for the Celebration of the Sacraments of Persons with Disabilities
- Pastoral Statement on Persons with Disabilities
- Ministry specific resources (Autism, Deaf/hard of hearing, intellectual Disability, mental Illness, prenatal, veteran related)
- Accessible design
- Large-print Roman Missal in three font sizes
- Webinars
- Diocesan Resources
Participates in International Ecclesial Conferences
- 2014 Autism conference sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers
- 2016 Living Fully Conference sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Culture and Family
- 2017 Conference on Catechesis and Persons with Disabilities sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization