Before Halloween
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Parents and Guardians, pre-register your teen at the form below for update emails.
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You're the registrant and guide for the student.
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Read the three accessible setup steps together.
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Get or print a Treat Accessibly lawn sign. Put it on your lawn up to 2-weeks before Halloween.
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Talk with your student about welcoming every child and the greater importance this has on the community.
Watch the video below from the student that created this national program.
On October 31
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Set up your accessible treat station (Click here for Accessibility Tips)
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Supervise your student.
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Welcome trick-or-treaters together.
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Consider starting before sunset for greater accessibility
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Take 2 photos: Teen with Treat Accessibly lawn sign and Teen at Accessible Treat Station
After Halloween
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The Parent or Guardian will receive an email to submit the proof form on your student's behalf.
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A certificate will be emailed to the parent or guardian to insert the child's name.
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The same email will provide the parent or guardian with the advisor/proxy authority to sign any school forms to verify the hours.
Privacy first: Parents and Guardians register and submit on a Student's behalf. We never collect a child's personal details directly.
Pre-Registration Form
FAQ
What does the student get?
Any student 14 to 18 can attains 6 hours of Volunteer service by Trick-or-Treating Accessibly from a Parent and Guardian's home or a location they approve (ex. Family, friend, neighbour's home or an apartment lobby).
How do we know how to do it?
The instructions, link to a lawn sign indicating you are Treating Accessibly, video and pre-register form gives you all the necessary details.
How do we prove we have Treated Accessibly to attain the hours?
Treat Accessibly sends all pre-registered households an email on Oct. 31 with a link for Parents and Guardians to submit the required proof for varification. Upon review and confirmation Parent and Guardians recieve an email and details to download a certificate from Treat Accessibly giving approval to the Parent and Gaurdian to sign off on the hours on shcool forms on behalf of Treat Accessibly.
How did Treat Accessibility 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.