Information, resources and research about work and disability issues
Upcoming Complimentary Webcast!
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Title: Employment Collaboration with Staffing Companies Date: December 5, 2005 Time: 2:00 PM ET (Archive will be available) Presenter: Katie Thompson, VCU-RRTC Register Online for this Free Webcast |
The Virginia Board for People with Disabilities awarded an 18 month replication grant to Virginia Commonwealth University's RRTC. The Virginia Board was interested in replicating the successful employment model developed with Manpower in Richmond, VA.
This webcast will discuss the replication efforts of this model with two staffing companies in Virginia. You will hear information about the project objectives, relationships, challenges, success stories, and the desire to continue the collaboration.
Katie Thompson, Training Associate and Staffing Consultant at VCU-RRTC along with representatives from Kelly Services and Manpower will discuss the project activities. You will learn the importance of building relationships and how these relationships can "pay off" for the employment of people with disabilities.
Upcoming Webcourses – It's Not Too Late to Register!
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"We have found this to be an excellent training program and very beneficial to us as a rural rehabilitation agency. Travel costs for my staff to attend a course such as this cost us close to $800 and as a small agency, we can not afford to send new staff as we would like to do. This has been very helpful!" - Testimonial |
Find out more about these courses and register online:
Supported Employment Web-based Certificate Series
Begins January 16, 2006 and Ends April 17, 2006
Supported Competitive Employment for Individuals with Mental Illness
Begins January 30, 2006 and Ends May 1, 2006
Worksupport Connections: Business Tax Credits & Incentives for Employment of People with Disabilities
Did you know that businesses may take an annual deduction for expenses incurred to remove physical, structural, and transportation barriers for persons with disabilities? The Internal Revenue Service (IRS)allows a deduction of up to $15,000 per year for qualified architectural and transportation barrier removal expenses. Find out if your business is eligible and what expenses are covered.
Read the Worksupport Connections Factsheet
Brown Bag Seminar: Project SEARCH
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Title: Project SEARCH Presenter: Susie Rutkowski, VCU Business Roundtable Member |
Susie Rutkowski from Cincinnati, Ohio works at Great Oaks Institute of Technology and Career Development, which is a career/technical high school and adult education facility. She also is the co-director of Project SEARCH at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
Project SEARCH was awarded the 2004 New Freedom Initiative Award from the Department of Labor. This award recognizes businesses and people that have demonstrated exemplary and innovative efforts in furthering the employment and workplace environment for people with disabilities. In this seminar, Ms. Rutkowski discusses the following:
- How Project SEARCH got started?
- How they have met the needs of individual job seekers?
- What kind of jobs they have for individuals with a more significant disability?
- How they recommend that other hospitals or businesses get started?
- How to replicate Project SEARCH into other businesses?
- What Children's Hospital says are the benefits of working with Project SEARCH?
Listen to this Brown Bag Seminar
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