Mental health conditions listed as most common disability in Jewish community Los Angeles, California, Jan. 9 – More than 4000 respondents participated in a RespectAbility survey focused on the inclusion of people with disabilities in faith communities in America. This includes 183 Jews with disabilities in California and additional 79 with no disability connection in [click to continue...]
You are invited to join RespectAbility on Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018 at San Francisco’s One Up Restaurant at the Grand Hyatt Hotel for three back-to-back key conversations on disability inclusion. Our conveners and facilitators: Tatiana Lee is an Inclusionist at RespectAbility, a nonprofit organization fighting stigmas and advancing opportunities for and with people with disabilities. [click to continue...]
Washington, D.C., Oct. 30 – Gov. Jerry Brown has proclaimed October 2018 to be Disability Employment Awareness Month in California. “For thirty years, the month of October as a time to acknowledge the positive role that people with disabilities have in our workforce and their contributions to the well-being of our state,” writes Brown in [click to continue...]
Please join us for the next in-person convening of the Long Beach Community of Practice. Date: Thursday, April 26th, 2018 Time: 12pm-1:30pm Location: DeVry University – Long Beach Campus 3800 Kilroy Airport Way Room 109 Long Beach, CA 90806 Lunch will be provided.
Disability Employment Toolkit Released Watch the event highlights on YouTube View the transcript in Microsoft Word View the PowerPoint in English View the PowerPoint in Spanish Long Beach, CA, March 28 – Dozens of leaders from across Long Beach gathered to discuss national lessons and local opportunities and to collaborate, to enable more residents with [click to continue...]
Long Beach, California, Feb. 22 – Los californianos con discapacidades son dramáticamente menos propensos a encontrar empleo en comparación con la población en general. Recientemente se publicó el Compendio de Estadísticas sobre Discapacidades realizado por La Universidad New Hampshire. El compendio revela una brecha de 40 puntos porcentuales en las perspectivas que existen entre las personas con [click to continue...]
Long Beach, California, Feb. 22 – Californians with disabilities are dramatically less likely to find employment than the general population or even their counterparts in most other states. The newly released Disabilities Statistics Compendium, published by the Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire, reveals a 40 percentage-point gap in job prospects between those [click to continue...]
Date: Thursday, March 22, 2018 Time: 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. (Lunch provided) Location: CIP Long Beach 4510 E. Pacific Coast Highway, Suite 100 Long Beach, CA 90804 Contact: Philip Kahn-Pauli, philipp@respectability.org RespectAbility, in partnership with the Harbor Regional Center, was proud to offer a unique learning opportunity for local businesses and community providers on [click to continue...]
Long Beach, Calif., Dec. 19 – Directly in the hub of Los Angeles, California sits the Harbor Regional Center (HRC), an organization local to California that strives to make every resident, family and neighbor feel welcome, wanted and productive. And this doesn’t just end in Los Angeles. HRC is a state-funded organization that provides services [click to continue...]
Long Beach, Calif., Dec. 12 – California Resource Services for Independent Living (SCRS-IL) is making sure that people with disabilities are able to live healthy, independent and productive lives. “As a person with a disability, I think it is very important to know how to navigate our systems. Sometimes these systems are there to help [click to continue...]
