Adversity training for employees
Attempting to find any type of employment in today's highly competitive job market can be, to say the least a challenge! Our economy (in this country) on the brink of disaster coupled with a complete switch of perceptions concerning careers, it's just about enough to push a "normal, able-bodied person" over the edge into a near total nervous breakdown. When you add to these things the complexity of persons with disabilities trying to enter the workforce... well, it's enough to make a grown man want to cry his eyes out! However... it just so happens that there is a bright ray of hope amid all the gloom and doom of the current work situation, in the land of the free. Even, and especially for people with disabilities! That shining lighthouse, with its ever brilliant brightness along the treacherous rocky shores of employment in this great nation of ours is none other than good old Uncle Sam and all his good old buddies, within the various "Department of This" and "Department of That" and there's even a "Department of This and That!" This particular beacon I'm talking about is called "Employees and Training Administration" (ETA) and it is put together, (very well I might add) by the "Department of Labor" (DOL).
By clicking the link below and accessing this "wealth of information" website, you can find answers for most, if not all questions you and/or your employer may have about hiring persons with disabilities.
For example... did you know that employers, when they hire persons with disabilities can qualify for a healthy tax break? Or, did you know, when an employer makes a quote reasonable accommodation" to assist an employee with a disability, any "out of pocket cost" to the employer in making that accommodation, is tax deductible? And, did you know, if an employee rides to and from work with another employee, the one driving gets to claim all that mileage off of their taxes? There’s much much more information just waiting for you to share with a potential employer, thus making you a more highly attractive employee.
On this website there are entire sections dedicated to various aspects of both "potential employees" and "potential employers" and, if you can't find what you need or want there is an e-mail address that you can shoot them an e-mail with your specific question. I easily found answers to all questions I thought of on this website and personally folks, I saw no need to "reinvent the wheel" by trying to put all that information here... on my website.
So take the plunge, click the link below and look over their website. If you still have questions to which you can't find answers, e-mail them at ETAWebmaster@dol.gov. If you still have unanswered questions, call or shoot me an e-mail and I'll be glad to help you any way I possibly can!
Milton Anthony LPC & Rehabilitation Consultant
Website link: www.doleta.gov/business/incentives/opptax/contacts.cfm