Massachusetts Based
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MassMATCH Employer Resources
Massachusetts’ initiative to Maximize Assistive Technology (AT) in Consumer’s Hands through partnerships with community-based organizations. Their mission is to promote the use of assistive technology and assistive technology services to enhance the independence of people with disabilities, enabling equal participation in all of life’s activities, including employment.
Small Employers and Reasonable Accommodation
Employment First Massachusetts
Leading Practices on Disability Inclusion
A collaborative initiative of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the US Business Leadership Network (USBLN®) to share creative inclusion practices that succeed. Includes a series of brief case studies that highlights specific strategies that businesses of all sizes can use to create a more inclusive workplace, marketplace, and supply chain.
Provider: Massachusetts Regional Employment Collaboratives
The Regional Employment Collaboratives are Riverside-led partnerships of state agencies and human service providers, employers, workforce development organizations, and employment service providers. The Collaboratives work across these groups with the common goal of increasing employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities.
Employing People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
People with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) comprise an underutilized population of potential employees proven to be a positive influence on co- workers, customers, the community and a company’s bottom line. Through survey data, case studies, and individual success stories, this report demonstrates how workers with IDD provide both talent and productivity.
Public Benefits and Employment Trainings
Work Without Limits offers trainings that address a number of topics related to some of the biggest employment challenges that people with disabilities face including how work income affects public benefits such as Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), Medicare and Medicaid.
The Value the Employees with Down Syndrome Can Add to Organizations
McKinsey & Company’s report, funded by Brazil’s Instituto Alana, on the inclusion of people with Down syndrome in the job market, which finds mutual gains for employees and employers. People with Down syndrome involved in such initiatives have a better quality of life and opportunities for development, while the companies that employ them often report […]
What Else Can I Do to Create an Inclusive Work Environment?
Why Hiring Someone With Down Syndrome Makes Good Business Sense
Blueprint for Success
Released by the MA Department of Developmental Services in late 2014, lays out a proactive plan to increase integrated employment opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities and sets forth a path for the state to be a national leader by closing its sheltered workshops and transforming its center-based work model to community-based work.
Carving Out Meaningful Roles
This is the third in a series of resources to support providers of disability day services and community participation to increase community inclusion for people with disability. It is based on best practice and feedback from organizations participating in the Community Inclusion Initiative. It is intended as a conversation starter with frontline workers and team […]
Disability Inclusion Consulting for Employers
Work Without Limits provides consulting for employers to build their capacity to successfully include individuals with disabilities in their workplaces. The consultations provide a clear assessment of your organization’s position along the continuum of disability inclusion with a set of recommendations and actionable, measurable next steps that will lay a solid foundation for future disability […]
Disability Inclusion Trainings
Work Without Limits provides training and consulting for employers to help build their capacity to successfully include individuals with disabilities in their work places. We also offer training for job developers and employment specialists on how to effectively engage employers around hiring individuals with disabilities. All trainings are suitable for executives, managers, supervisors, recruiters, human […]
Interviewing Applicants with Disabilities
The job interview plays a critical role in the hiring process, allowing employers the opportunity to identify the individual who possesses the best mix of knowledge, skills and abilities for the position available. Here are best practices for conducting a job interview when the applicant happens to have a disability.
Recruiting, Hiring, Retaining, and Promoting People with Disabilities: A Resource Guide for Employers
Identifies relevant federal and federally-funded resources for employers looking to recruit, hire, retain, and promote people with disabilities. Designed to answer common questions raised by employers and help implement commonsense solutions to ensure that people with disabilities have the opportunity to obtain and succeed in good jobs and careers.
What Small Companies Need to Know about Employing People with Disabilities
Small business employers agree that employing people with disabilities is good business. Citizens with disabilities in Massachusetts are working in positions ranging from executives in Fortune 500 companies to professionals in health care as well as entry level positions in retail and hospitality. Includes common questions and answers to help you with hiring and employing […]
Employers and the ADA: Myths and Facts
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a landmark federal law that protects the rights of people with disabilities by eliminating barriers to their participation in many aspects of living and working in America. In particular, the ADA prohibits covered employers from discriminating against people with disabilities in the full range of employment-related activities, from […]