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Introduction
APSE HR Connect offers consultation services to help businesses reach out to and partner with one of the strongest labor & customer pools in the country - The Disability Community.
Business Benefits of a Disability Outreach Initiative:
- Recruiting/Hiring: It will allow your company strategic access to the last untapped labor pool in America
- Job Training: It will allow you to set up and/or access exciting new job training/internship programs
- Collaboration: It will create opportunities for your company to collaborate with new business partner & customer groups
- Marketing: It will help you tap the this powerful niche market
- Incentive Planning: It will assist your company in accessing a variety of local, state, and federal grants & incentives
The Facts:
- 56 million people with disabilities plus close family, friends, and supporters comprise almost one-third of the United States population
- 20 million of 70 million families in the U.S. have at least one member with a disability (1 out of 10 families raising children have at least 1 child with a disability)
- People with disabilities in the U.S. have an annual spending power of $796 billion – more than any ethnic minority group ($200 billion more than the African American community $300 billion more than the Hispanic community - and this does not take into account family, friends, and supporters)
- With the baby boom generation retiring and tightening immigration laws, people with disabilities are the last untapped labor source in the country (40% higher unemployment of people with disabilities as compared to those without disabilities)
- Targeting the disability community as a customer and labor source is one of the hot new, rising trends in the American business community. Companies like Walgreens (http://www.walgreensoutreach.com), CVS, Starbucks, MBNA, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Pepsi, Hyatt, and Bank of America have already initiated large scale outreach efforts to the disability community.
HR Connect Services include:
- Planning a Strategic Disability Community Outreach
- Recruiting in the Disability Community
- Accessible Screening/Interviewing
- Linking to/Developing Job Training Programs
- Disability Awareness Training
- Inclusion of Disability Issues Into Diversity Planning
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Consultation
- Increasing Supplier Diversity
- Incentive Planning
- Job/Essential Functions Analysis
- Public Relations/Communication to the Disability Community
- Mentoring/Coaching Programs
- Marketing in the Disability Community
For more information on HR Connect services, please contact: James Emmett, HR Connect Director at 574-808-9779 or via email at james@apse.org
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