Campaign spotlights model employers that demonstrate inclusive hiring can help their bottom line and starts by featuring Ernst & Young LLP NEW YORK – RespectAbilityUSA and POSITIVE EXPOSURE, two non-profits working to change how people see disabilities, have joined forces to create #RespectTheAbility, a campaign to focus on how hiring people with disabilities can make [click to continue...]
#RespectTheAbility Campaign: Spotlight on Project SEARCH Young people with disabilities help senior citizens: Provide excellent workforce for the future Haley McCormick-Thompson, 21, spends part of her day transporting senior residents of the United Hebrew from their rooms to their various activities throughout the day. The seniors’ faces light up when they see Haley coming over to [click to continue...]
#RespectTheAbility Campaign: Spotlight on Project SEARCH Workers with disabilities help hospitals help patients Anthony Telesford works in the kitchen of Montefiore New Rochelle hospital with his co- worker Jennifer Dacres, cleaning dishes, collecting trays, and assisting their other co-workers in other kitchen and meal preparatory tasks. The two consider themselves good friends, and can often be [click to continue...]
#RespectTheAbility Campaign: Spotlight on Project SEARCH Youth with disabilities help make government work better Several years ago during a blizzard in the northeast, the local news announced that people should stay home due to dangerous conditions on the roads. The government told its workers that only “essential” employees should report to work. One boss in the [click to continue...]
#RespectTheAbility Campaign: Spotlight on Farming Autistic man on path to become an organic farmer According to the CDC, one out of every 42 boys in America is on the Autism Spectrum (ASD). Additionally, almost half (46 percent) of these children identified with ASD had average or above average intellectual ability. These children are growing up at [click to continue...]
#RespectTheAbility Campaign: Spotlight on ernst & young (EY) If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere: Inclusion at Ernst & Young (EY) Located at 5 Times Square, the red letters of Ernst & Young LLP (EY) glow on the side of its New York City offices. It’s been said that if you can [click to continue...]
How individuals with disabilities, often deemed incapable of ever working, can get the skills they need to gain & succeed at work with Project Search’s Founder & Director, Erin Riehle RN, MSN Read the webinar transcript Download the accessible PowerPoint presentation Watch the webinar on YouTube with live embedded captions About Project SEARCH: Project SEARCH is a [click to continue...]
