Bethesda, Maryland – States around America returned millions of dollars to the federal government that could have been used to enable people with disabilities to get jobs and careers. This is despite the fact that 70 percent of people with disabilities are out of the workforce, and disability benefits and healthcare are costing billions to taxpayers. Vocational [click to continue...]
Read the webinar transcript Download the accessible PowerPoint Watch the webinar on YouTube with live embedded captions Featuring Dana Marlowe, Principal Partner and co-founder, Accessibility Partners LLC and Sharon Rosenblatt, Accessibility Partners LLC Dana Marlowe is an architect of inclusion and accessibility. She is the Principal Partner and co-founder of the company, Accessibility Partners LLC, a [click to continue...]
Read the webinar transcript Download the accessible PowerPoint presentation Watch the webinar on YouTube with live embedded captions Featuring Donna Meltzer, CEO, National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities (NACDD), and Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, President and CEO, RespectAbility Donna Meltzer is CEO of the National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities (NACDD), a national nonprofit organization [click to continue...]
Wednesday, April 29th, 2015 Honorable Committee, Thank you for your leadership in understanding the challenges of meeting the needs of individuals with disabilities served by home and community-based services (HCBS). RespectAbility is a nonprofit working to enable people with disabilities to achieve the American dream, just like anyone else. There are 20 million working age [click to continue...]
My heart is bleeding for the people of Baltimore and other communities who are struggling with challenges. We have been paying attention to police violence in Maryland for some time. While we focus on disability issues, we are all a part of our community overall. When a young man with Down syndrome was killed by [click to continue...]
Today is a somber day. It’s Holocaust memorial day. I am so deeply grateful that my father was able to escape the Nazis in 1939. Most of our family on his side was not so lucky. They were killed. I am so grateful to the many allied troops and others who made freedom and survival [click to continue...]
Please see the story below about Jeb Bush, who has not yet officially announced his candidacy, doing an event tomorrow to celebrate the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act in Mississippi. Earlier Gov. Phil Bryant made Mississippi Employment First for people with disabilities. Also make sure to read our piece about Hillary Clinton’s video failing [click to continue...]
RespectAbilityUrges Hillary: Don’t Forget People with Disabilities! Washington, D.C. – Yesterday the Hillary Clinton campaign released its launch video, which included many different individuals and families who represented diversity in America. But nowhere in the video could you see anyone with a disability. This is a key voting group across America, including the four first [click to continue...]
Honorable Committee, Thank you for your leadership on expanding opportunities through the successful implementation of WIOA. As you know from my previous testimony, my name is Jennifer Mizrahi and I am the President of RespectAbility, a national nonprofit working to enable people with disabilities to achieve the American dream. We know that people with disabilities [click to continue...]
Read the webinar transcript Download the accessible PowerPoint presentation Watch the webinar on YouTube with live embedded captions RespectAbility shares results from focus groups in the DC area and Houston and a poll of 2000 American Jews on the state of inclusion of people with disabilities in the Jewish community. Hear insights and findings that will [click to continue...]
