Treat Accessibly Halloween Streets are made possible by:
What's inside the toolkit
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A ready-to-send neighbour recruiting email (copy it below)
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A printable, editable flyer to print and share with neighbours (click the download button below for a PDF)
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A street signup link in the email and flyer so neighbours can get more details about participating from Treat Accessibly directly.
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A video explaining how the movement started and why.
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The FAQs that answer what neighbours ask below.
Your one job this week: send the neighbour email and post the flyer to 5–10 neighbours, and aim for 20+ homes to be signed up to stay in the running to be one of the 25 streets we may select to help lead the country.
Copy-and-send Neighbour Email
Neighbour email and text template - tap and highlight the email below, tap copy and then paste into a new email.
​Once pasted into an email from you to neighbours, personalize as you wish and add the Subject to the email.
​Subject: Want to make our street's Halloween welcoming to kids with disabilities?
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Hi Neighbours, it's (YOUR FIRST NAME) at (HOUSE NUMBER). This Halloween, let's make our street the most accessible one in the community for kids with disabilities. Add your home here and get details in less than a minute www.treataccessibly.com/join-your-street. On Saturday, Oct. 31, we can be a safe space for all the kids in our area, typically unintentionally excluded from trick-or-treating - it's easy, any home can do it. 300,000 homes already have across Canada. Thanks! Your Treat Accessibly Street Captain (YOUR NAME)​
P.S. When you click link above you can watch a video that explains why Canada is joining the movement already.\​
Copy-and-send sign-up link for neighbours
Neighbour Sign-Up Link - tap and highlight the URL below, tap copy and then paste into however you're sharing it.
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www.treataccessibly.com/join-your-street
Download the editable Neighbour Flyer
Click the link to download the flyer to your computer so you can add your Name and Street.
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FAQ
Do I have to host a Treat Accessibly Halloween event?
No. You need only Treat Accessibly on Halloween night yourself. But if you want to rally neighbours to join you, that's a lot of fun. and great for all kids, parents and the community.​
​Am I the approved Street Captain for Treat Accessibly?
Yes. Registering automatically confirms you are the Captain for Treat Accessibly on your street. Others may register as a Captain, and that is ok. The more people who are captaining, the more homes will participate on your street.​
How many homes should I aim for?
20+ Homes on your street need to participate if you want to stay in the running to be one of the 25 Treat Accessibly Halloween Streets we support. If you just want to make your street accessible to kids in the area for Halloween, aim for 10+ homes to participate. But the more the merrier - it creates a great sense of community.​
​Do I get a list of the Homes on my street that have signed up?
You get the list only if you are one of the 25 Treat Accessibly Halloween Streets participating. That's why it is a good idea for every Street Captain to keep track of everyone who wants to participate through the email or flyer you share with neighbours. ​
Why should my neighbours Treat Accessibly with me?
It creates and shares an incredible sense of community. When you set up an accessible trick-or-treat station outside, and you and your neighbours all do the same, it supports kids with disabilities - but it also shows everyone what it means to stand together as a community and neighbourhood for something​​
How did Treat Accessibly start, and how do you do it?
Our 6-year-old daughter noticed a little boy using a wheelchair when she was putting pumpkins on our stairs and realized our house and all the houses on our street excluded him because they all had stairs. So that night she made a lawn sign that said Accessible Trick-or-Treating and planted it in the lawn a week before Halloween.​
​On Halloween night, instead of trick-or-treating, she set up an Accessible Treat Station Table at the end of our driveway and stood at it with her parents. Greeting all the trick-or-treaters and parents from the driveway. Every one of them asked what the sign meant, and once she shared it, every parent and child understood. But that night, 7 families came because they had seen or heard about the sign. ​
Every family had a child who had either a mobility, sensory or neurological disability. Every family thanked Siena and her parents, saying how no one has ever done this before, and putting out the lawn sign and being accessible like this makes a huge difference and helps all their kids feel included in different ways.
Since that first sign and accessible trick-or-treating station, over 300,000 homes across Canada have joined the movement to make Halloween night the greatest single act of neighbourhood inclusion for kids with disabilities this nation and even the world has ever witnessed. Thank you for learning more about our story and the movement.