Volunteer Signup Form
Thank you for your interest in helping share the 2026–2027 Disability/Deaf and Abuse Survey, led by Arizona State University with The Natalie Project (ASU IRB approved). The survey is open through April 2027, Autism Awareness Month.
Why every contact gets its own flyer (video, about 4 and a half minutes)
One flyer for everyone tells us only that someone answered. A flyer for each contact tells us what worked and where to go next. This video explains the idea and shows the basic steps. It has a voice. Closed captions are on in English. For Spanish, use the captions (CC) button in the player and choose Español.
Read what the video says
- How do we know which outreach brings people to the survey?
- Most studies share one flyer. Every organization gets the same page and the same QR code.
- When someone scans it, the survey receives a response. It cannot tell which flyer brought that person.
- So we cannot see which organizations shared it, which channels worked, or where to try again.
- Our approach is different. In the recruitment application, every contact has its own flyer.
- The flyer looks the same. Only the four QR codes change.
- Each code carries two short tags: one for the contact, and one for the recruiter who reached out.
- The tags identify the flyer, never the person. No names travel with a response. The survey stays anonymous.
- First, it organizes our outreach.
- Each contact belongs to one recruiter at a time, so no organization is contacted twice by accident.
- Each recruiter records two tries, about a week apart, and what happened.
- Coordinators see what is waiting and what is closed.
- If a contact brings no participants after thirty days, a coordinator decides whether to try again.
- Second, it strengthens our research.
- Each week we count how many responses started and finished, by contact, by recruiter, and by channel.
- That lets us change course while the survey is still open, not only after it closes.
- Because each flyer belongs to one contact, we can also group responses by the kind of contact.
- A conference or event. A state council. A network and each of its chapters. A community center.
- And we can group them by where each contact works: nationally, in a state, or in a city.
- The application shows this on a map: where our contacts are, and what kind each one is.
- That shows the spread and scope of our outreach. We can compare, and see the gaps we still need to reach.
- And our methods can state exactly who we contacted, how often, and what each path produced.
- The tags tell us which flyer was used. They do not tell us how many people saw it, or where a person lives.
- So we report counts by path, not response rates.
- Here is how a volunteer or advisor uses it. Sign in with your email and password.
- Home shows your contacts. To add one, choose "Add a new contact". A coordinator checks it against our list, and then it is yours.
- Or choose "Take a contact" to pick an organization nobody has yet.
- Open a contact and create its workbook: a flyer with that contact's own QR codes, and messages already written.
- Download the flyer, copy the message, and send them from your own email. The application never sends anything.
- Then record the date and how you reached out. That is the whole routine.
- Now a quick tour of the pages. Everyone lands on Introduction, with this video.
- Home holds your contacts, and the buttons to take a contact or add a new one.
- Every message is in the contact's own workbook, already filled in with your name and that contact's links.
- My results shows how many people took the survey through your outreach. Counts only, never answers.
- Contact map shows where our contacts are.
- Coordinators have four more pages. Recruiting Team lists everyone who can sign in.
- Survey Participant Counts holds the weekly counts, by contact, recruiter, kind and place.
- Settings holds the project status, the backup and the downloads.
- Coordinator To Do has the guide videos, the tasks that need a decision, and the records.
- One flyer tells us that someone answered.
- A flyer for each contact tells us what worked, and where to go next.
- To help share the survey, fill out the Volunteer Signup Form on The Natalie Project survey page.
What it involves
- You share the survey with organizations and people you know, using a flyer and ready-made messages our recruitment application gives you.
- It is flexible. There is no minimum and no schedule.
- You never collect or see survey answers. The survey stays anonymous and confidential.
- You send each message yourself, one contact at a time. We ask volunteers not to use AI or bulk sending tools for recruiting. Accessibility tools (a screen reader, dictation, captions, a spelling checker) are fine. Thinking of using AI in any way? Dr. Allan Colbern meets with you first to hear your plan and approve it.
- Volunteers must be 18 or older. This is an unpaid volunteer role.
Go to the form Read the one-page volunteer sheet (PDF)
More about how it works
- For every contact you hold, you create a workbook: a ready-made email, ready-to-post messages and a flyer whose QR codes are made for that contact and for you. A workbook stays for one day, so it is used for that contact and that try only. People you know are added as contacts too, so every bit of outreach is counted.
- You reach out only to the contacts assigned to you on the recruitment application (ones reserved for you, ones you take from the open list, or ones you suggest), so no organization is contacted twice. You can also share at events such as conferences: you create a contact for the event first, and you get a flyer made for it.
- Why we track outreach. Every link and flyer carries a short code for you and, where there is one, the organization you contacted. This shows us which outreach reaches people and which communities we are still missing. The code says which link was used, never who answered, and you see only counts, never answers.
- With your permission, we would like to list volunteers' names on the survey web page to recognize their contributions. You choose on the form.
- Volunteers are not research participants. This is not a research, student or paid position.
About Anna Clark, volunteer coordinator
Anna Clark, volunteer coordinator. Anna Clark is a second year master's student at Arizona State University studying Social Justice and Human Rights. As a deaf and chronically ill researcher, Anna holds a strong passion for disability advocacy and abuse prevention education. Outside of school, Anna works as an art and history teacher at an alternative school where she advocates for the rights and accommodations needed for disabled students to succeed and thrive through non-traditional educational practices.
Email Anna at ajclar32@asu.edu, and please cc Dr. Allan Colbern (Allan.Colbern@asu.edu).
What happens next: after you send this form, Anna Clark emails you when you can sign in to the recruitment application. The first time, you sign in with your email and your first name, and the site asks you to create your own password. From then on you sign in with your email and that password.
Questions? Email Anna Clark, our volunteer coordinator, at ajclar32@asu.edu, and please cc Dr. Allan Colbern (Allan.Colbern@asu.edu). About the survey: thenatalieproject.org/disabilityandabusesurvey