Disability Belongs™ Staff

Disabilities to Diverse Abilities: Changing the Workplace Paradigm with Lori Golden View the presentation here and listen to a recording of the call here. Lori Golden is Ernst & Young’s Abilities Strategy leader, driving efforts to build an enabling and inclusive work environment for people of all abilities. She consults on accommodations and career development issues [click to continue...]

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...]

Washington, D.C. – RespectAbility is delighted to share with you the fact that the jobs bill for people with disabilities (WIOA) passed the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly today. This comes on the heals of a 95-3 vote for the bill in the U.S. Senate. It is expected that the WIOA bill will be signed [click to continue...]

Washington, DC. RespectAbility, a non-profit organization working to empower Americans with disabilities to achieve the American Dream, is celebrating the first anniversary of its work to empower Jews with disabilities to be included in Jewish life. Since its inception only one year ago, RespectAbility has worked to help Jewish groups become more inclusive communities. According [click to continue...]