Ages 4-18 · Book 6, Faith · 4,299 places
Disability Inclusion Training for Volunteers
One evening that changes a volunteer team. What to do, what to stop doing, what to say to a parent, and how to tell a hard hour from a failed one.
Built on Ellis Abel and the Disciple — “Difference isn't weakness. It's a gift.” The story carries the value; your church supplies the doctrine.
The five sessions
- Session 1
Audit the room first: entrances, noise, lighting, exits, seating
- Session 2
Meet the family and ask what a good hour looks like for their child
- Session 3
Match one trained volunteer to one child, and keep the pairing
- Session 4
Run the session with the story, and let participation look different
- Session 5
Debrief with the family the same day, not at the end of the term
Questions leaders ask
Does disability inclusion training for volunteers in your area teach a particular denomination?
No. Ellis Abel is a character series built on named values — belonging, courage, accountability, self-mastery, empathy and faith. Book six treats faith as the choice to move forward while it is still hard. The story carries the value; your church supplies the doctrine. That is why the same material is used across traditions.
What ages does this work for?
Ages 4-18. The story is read aloud, so a child who cannot read yet is still fully in it, and the discussion questions are written in two bands so one leader can hold a mixed-age room.
Our your area church has never run this and does not know where to start.
Start with one child and one trained volunteer, not with a program. Ask that family what a good hour looks like, build that hour, and let the second family hear about it from the first.
What if a child cannot participate the way the session expects?
Then the session is wrong, not the child. Participation is allowed to look different — listening from the doorway is participation, and so is leaving early.
The rules that make it work
The story carries the value, the church supplies the doctrine
Ellis Abel is a character series. It teaches faith as perseverance and stops where doctrine begins, so a parish, a Baptist club and a co-op can all run it beside their own teaching.
Difference isn't weakness
The line on the cover of book six is the operating policy, not a slogan. A child whose participation looks different is participating.
Faith is a decision, not a mood
Children are told to feel confident and cannot make themselves. They can decide to take one more step, and that is teachable, repeatable and honest.
Volunteers are the constraint
Every session is written for an adult who was handed it the night before. Questions written out, timing in the margin, and a note for when nobody answers.
Nobody is diagnosed, labelled or fixed here
This is character material, not a clinical or counselling service. Leaders share what they did and what happened. They do not assess children.
One step, said out loud, followed up by name
A value a child cannot attach to an action they took is a word they memorised. The follow-up the next week is what turns it into something they own.
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