Webinar

Disability Employment Awareness – Benefits & Perspectives

October 28, 2021 (10:00 a.m. PDT | 11:00 a.m. MDT | 12:00 p.m. CDT | 1:00 p.m. EDT)

In honor of National Disability Employment Awareness Month, you are invited to join one of Circa’s Community-Based Organization’s Best Buddies Jobs for an exploration of how individuals with disabilities can provide valuable additions to your workforce as well as tips on how you can hire and retain individuals with disabilities.

Discussion Topics:

• Benefits of hiring an individual with a disability
• Supported Employment Basics – how community-based organizations bridge the gap between employers & job seekers/employees with intellectual or developmental disability (IDD)
• Support and etiquette when interacting with individuals with IDD
• Shared experience from a Best Buddies Job employee – how they have benefited from community-based organizations and what it means to them to have employment
• Shared experience from an employer from the Best Buddies/Circa network and how they have benefited from both services
• Live Q&A