Waverley Social Enterprises’ Post

SourceAmerica connects people with disabilities to job opportunities through our nationwide network of nonprofits. We also connect our federal customers to quality products and services produced by the nonprofit network. We're proud to be a force for disability employment. Learn more at: https://lnkd.in/dPJMxxW #DisabilityEmployment #TrueInclusionEqualsAll

"Transportation is a gap for successful employment for people with disabilities when you want to be paid, have wage protections, minimum wage protections, as well as working amongst people without disabilities." October may be over, but here at the Forum, we raise disability employment awareness year-round! Today we're amplifying this clip of Rahnee Patrick, Director of the Division of Rehabilitation Services at the Illinois Department of Human Services, on how philanthropy can fund overlooked areas of employment access for people with disabilities. https://lnkd.in/gsQnW399

Did you know that The League has a blog? Our goal is to cover topics that are important to you, like best practices for individuals traveling with disabilities! Submit any suggestions you might have in the comments below and we'll work towards incorporating them in our resource library. Read it here:

WHY SWTCIE: "[Our clients] been told all their life what they can't do. We're going to show them what they can do." Learn how SWTCIE Illinois and our partnering agencies, like Centerstone, are flipping the script on employment for individuals with disabilities in Illinois ▶️ https://lnkd.in/g_NJkUdT #SWTCIEIllinois 🔸 #Innovation 🔹 #CIE 🔸 #WhySWTCIEWednesday 🔹 #Community 🔸 #Discovery 🔹 #WisdomWednesday

I am so grateful and proud to be part of Relay Resources led by our CEO, Dr. Jennifer Camota Luebke. Watch the short interview below to learn more about Disability Inclusion and Relay Resources.

KenCCID has worked diligently to provide people with developmental and intellectual disabilities the skills necessary to achieve the outcomes they want in their lives, most importantly safe and adequate housing 🏡. The people we support are encouraged to provide for their own self-care, become responsible citizens, earn a living with gainful employment, and live a quality of life as independently as possible.  Some of our staff have been with us for as long as 38 years, and we have individuals who have been living with us for over 40 years. This has truly become their home as they are “Our Family." 💙 To learn more about what we've been up to here at KenCCID, check out one of our latest article ⬇️

Congratulations Enable NZ! Interesting read on the origins of Enable.

WHY SWTCIE: “Everybody has the right to be somebody and do something that they love to do.” Learn how SWTCIE Illinois and our partnering agencies, like Kreider Services, Inc., are helping individuals with disabilities not only find employment within their communities, but jobs they love ▶️ https://lnkd.in/g_NJkUdT #SWTCIEIllinois 🔸 #Innovation 🔹 #CIE 🔸 #WhySWTCIEWednesday 🔹 #Community 🔸 #Discovery 🔹 #WisdomWednesday

Disability Action Week will run from 24 November to 1 December 2024. This year’s theme is ‘Accessible communication: connect, include and empower’. We want everyone to start a conversation about communication to make our state more accessible and inclusive. Small, easy changes can make the difference for people with diverse communication needs. Take action to remove barriers that may prevent people with disability from accessing information. Consider: making your web content easy to read including alt-text for images for people who use screen readers writing documents in plain language – you could go further and make Easy Read and dyslexia-friendly versions and Auslan translations available making sure that events can be enjoyed by everyone. Check out the Queensland Government accessible event guide and checklist. The first step is to find out how people need or want to receive information. For more information about accessible communication, event planning tips and promotional resources visit the Disability Action Week website. https://lnkd.in/ggYSTaTG

Community-building takes time. It requires trust, patience, collaboration, mutual respect. It is not efficient and often is a process marked by error and confused by trouble shooting. Over the past year, I have worked within a advocacy group called the Disability Alliance, preparing our annual event, Disability Week, that will take place October 14th through the 17th (see our website for details: https://lnkd.in/g9eetiZf). The Disability Alliance is a group made up of faculty, staff and students at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. (Alison Graettinger, Amber Andrews, Helene Houston-Reed, Isaac M. EllieAna Hale, Shannon Wheeler, Makini King, Sally Ellis Fletcher, Z Kemp, Alexis Petri, Skye VanLanduyt, Brittany B., Maxim Terekhov, Carla Marquina and many more) We are a diverse bunch and, among us, we have many talents. Part of the challenge of working in a collective like ours is learning about each person, finding moments to share space to listen to their experiences, appreciate their voice. These are not moments you can fake, or recreate at a whim. Respecting one's place, meeting them where they are or organizing a location to meet, somewhere in the middle, is not easy. But when it happens, when you connect and work on something meaningful, together, it is a big deal. #disabilitycommunity #disabilitydiversity #disabilityworks