Empowering Vermonters
Inclusion Step by Step
VAIL is building advocacy centered on dignity, access, and real inclusion. We grow step by step to ensure every individual is empowered to thrive.
- Disability Advocacy: Promoting dignity, equal voice, and meaningful inclusion.
- Access & Communication: Supporting assistive tech and inclusive environments.
- Awareness & Education: Helping people understand dignity and human connection.
- Intimacy Initiative: Recognizing intimacy and human connection as real human needs.
We encourage you to learn more, collaborate, and help us build a more inclusive and dignified world for all Vermonters.
Disability Advocacy & Inclusion
We promote dignity, equal voice, and meaningful inclusion in everyday life. We ensure everyone's perspective is valued.
Awareness & Education
We help people better understand disability and human connection. Education builds the bridge to a dignified world.
Our Initiatives
VAIL is building advocacy step by step. Our work is centered on dignity, access, and real inclusion for every member of our community.
Looking Ahead
Our future goals include deeper collaboration, specialized research, and expanding our advocacy to build an even stronger community voice.
We invite you to learn more, support our mission, and help us build a more inclusive and dignified world for everyone.
Accessibility & Communication
We support access to communication, assistive technology, and inclusive environments for seamless daily living.
Intimacy & Human Connection
We support recognition of intimacy as a real need for disabled adults. We call for ethical, consent-based, and dignity-centered services.
Sign the Public Petition
Intimacy and Human Connection Initiative
VAIL is leading an active advocacy effort to support the recognition of intimacy and human connection as essential human needs for disabled adults. We are promoting a public petition that calls for ethical, consent-based, and dignity-centered services. Our focus is on honoring the full human experience and ensuring that everyone has the right to build and maintain meaningful social and personal connections.
Moving Forward Together
Looking Ahead
Collaboration
We are building strong partnerships with local organizations and community leaders. By working together, we can enhance our collective voice and create a more unified path toward access for all.
Research
We are focused on expanding our disability-centered research. Using lived experience and real data, we aim to identify service gaps and advocate for ethical, evidence-based solutions in Vermont.
Expanding Advocacy
We are reaching further into our communities to build a stronger advocate voice. Our goal is to expand our presence and support even more individuals in their journey toward dignity and inclusion.
Join Us — Help Grow Our Initiatives
VAIL is just beginning.
We are building our work step by step, and we invite you to be part of it.
Together, we can create real, human-centered change in Vermont.
Ways to Get Involved
- Join the community
Stay connected, follow our work, and show up in the ways that feel right for you. - Share ideas or lived experience
Tell us what dignity, access, and inclusion look like in your life. Your voice helps guide our priorities. - Collaborate or partner
If you are part of a group, organization, or project, we welcome chances to work together. - Support advocacy efforts
Add your name to petitions, speak up with us, and help push for rights-based change. - Help raise awareness
Share our initiatives, talk with others, and help shift how people think about disability and inclusion. - Connect and communicate
Ask questions, start conversations, and let us know what you care about.
Community at the Center
Every voice matters. We believe real change grows from shared effort, listening, and inclusion.
VAIL is not about speaking for people. It is about creating space where disabled people and allies can speak, lead, and act together.