Job Placement for the Disabled

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Job Placement for the Disabled

• September 26, 2008
  Yerevan, Armenia

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Job Placement for the Disabled
4 Main Points

• Introduction
• High Value-Adding Best Practices
• Top-Quartile Benchmarks (TQB)
• Developing Economies
• Corporations
• Non-Governmental Organizations
• Conclusions

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Job Placement for the Disabled
Introduction

• Main Objectives
• Define the metrics with which to assess the
  current state of the global disabled
  community.
• Identify and share, from a multi-stakeholder
  perspective, the top-quartile global
  benchmarks and their high value-adding best
  practices for employing and training disabled
  people in various sectors.

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Job Placement for the Disabled
4 Main Points

• Introduction
• High Value-Adding Best Practices
• Top-Quartile Benchmarks (TQB)
• Developing Economies
• Corporations
• Non-Governmental Organizations
• Conclusions

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Job Placement for the Disabled
High Value-Adding Best Practices

• NATIONAL POLICIES LEGISLATION TO PROMOTE EQUAL
  OPPORTUNITIES
• Government-Mandated Quota Systems
• Anti-Discrimination Laws
• EMPLOYMENT SERVICES FOR LABOR MARKET ENTRY
• Pre-Employment Job Coaching
• Follow-Up Disabled Assistance Services

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Job Placement for the Disabled
High Value-Adding Best Practices

• TRAINING TO BUILD CAPACITY FOR INCREASED
  EMPLOYABILITY
• Pre-Placement Guidance
• Vocational Training
• COMMUNITY-BASED REHABILITATION (CBR) SERVICES
• Community Integration Strategies
• PROMOTING SELF-EMPLOYMENT
• Business Consultation
• Microfinance Services

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Job Placement for the Disabled
4 Main Points

• Introduction
• High Value-Adding Best Practices
• Top-Quartile Benchmarks (TQB)
• Developing Economies
• Corporations
• Non-Governmental Organizations
• Conclusions

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Job Placement for the Disabled
TQB Developing Economies

• CHINA
• Chinas quota rate for disability employment
  ranges from 1.5-2.
• More than 90,000 disabled are employed in 60,000
  sheltered workshops.
• 34 million (57) disabled run their own
  businesses in China.
• The disabled employment rate reached 71.3 in
  1999.
• POLAND
• Poland possesses the highest quota rate for
  employing the disabled among developing countries
  with a quota-levy system.
• The disabled employment rate in Poland increased
  from about 16 in 1996 to 21 in 2002.

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Job Placement for the Disabled
TQB Corporations

• IBM
• Top Employer of People with Disabilities (First
  in Top 50 for 2008).
• 47 of disabled employees work in core IT
  functions. The company invests in special
  accommodations and modernizes 50 buildings
  worldwide to comply with the new Worldwide
  Building Accessibility Guidelines.
• IBMs leadership is committed to an inclusive
  work environment. The People with Disabilities
  Task Force is one of its executive task forces.
• Special recruiting programs for disabled people,
  including Project Able and Lift and Entry
  Point.

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Job Placement for the Disabled
TQB Corporations

• IBM (continued)
• Produced special group developing products for
  the disabled since 1985.
• A leader in assistive technology for decades
• Model 1403 Braille printer (1975)
• Talking typewriter for the blind (1980)
• Talking display terminal for the hearing-impaired
  (1981)
• One of the first screen readers (end of 1980's)
• Home Page Reader (2000), which allows accessing
  the Web in 8 languages.

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Job Placement for the Disabled
TQB Corporations

• McDONALDS CORPORATION
• One of the first companies that prominently and
  positively featured people with handicaps in
  commercials.
• Among the Top 50 Employers for People with
  Disabilities.
• Committed champion of employing disabled people.
  Awarded 9th Annual Henry Betts, MD, Employment
  Advocacy Award.
• Its restaurants as well as head and regional
  offices are designed to be accessible for people
  with disabilities.

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Job Placement for the Disabled
TQB Corporations

• McDONALDS CORPORATION (continued)
• Training materials, such as the Customizing
  Customer Service video, raise awareness of
  disabled people, both as employees and customers,
  and promote positive attitudes toward the
  disabled.
• Partnerships with other corporations/groups
  Scope Mouthwash (for people with cerebral palsy)
  and the Multiple Sclerosis Society on their MS
  and Employment project.
• McJobs program trains and places mentally and
  physically disabled people in meaningful jobs.
• European operations employ over 2,000 people with
  disabilities. In Japan, 3-4 of employees are
  people with disabilities. The company received
  Tokyo Governors Award and the Labor Ministers
  Award (when?).

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Job Placement for the Disabled
TQB Non-Governmental Organizations

• PERSPEKTIVA (Russia)
• Provided various employment services in Moscow,
  Rostov-on-Don, Samara, and Toliatti (2005-6)
• Consultation to 2,059 people and 37 internships
  positions
• 284 new jobs
• 47 workshops for over 676 people and 1 eight-day
  training
• Offered the following employment services in
  Moscow in 2006 alone
• Consultation to 300 people
• Employment to 97 people through Perspektiva
  clients, and 84 people found work independently.
• 5 workshops for 57 participants on Understanding
  Disability and 5 workshops for 77 participants
  on Access to Employment

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Job Placement for the Disabled
TQB Non-Governmental Organizations

• PERSPEKTIVA (continued)
• Currently works with employers of 170 companies,
  offering 1,000 new jobs.
• Maintains a database of resumes and employers.
• Offers career and job counseling under its
  Employment Support Group program.
• Provides Individual action plans and follow-up.
• Conferences Employment Opportunities for Young
  Disabled People in Moscow Experience and
  Innovative Solutions (2005) and Experience and
  Innovation in Employment Opportunities for People
  with Disabilities (2006)
• Job Fairs Perspektiva 2006 and six others
  (1,200 disabled participated in 2006 36
  companies offered 823 vacancies, and 43 of the
  attendees found jobs.)

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Job Placement for the Disabled
TQB Non-Governmental Organizations

• REDEMPTORIST VOCATIONAL SCHOOL FOR THE DISABLED
  (RVSD, Thailand)
• Offers vocational training in computer science,
  electronic repair, English language for computer
  business, and independent living.
• Provides vocational counseling at three
  placement offices and counseling camps.
• Maintains a clinic, dining room, gymnasium, and
  snack shop accessible to the disabled.

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Job Placement for the Disabled
TQB Non-Governmental Organizations

• REDEMPTORIST VOCATIONAL SCHOOL FOR THE DISABLED
  (continued)
• Has 220 young people (with physical
  disabilities) enrolled.
• Maintains a 100 placement rate.
• Provides positions at computer programming,
  electronics shops, hotels, travel agencies, and
  various companies.
• Offers starting salaries from US142 to US238.

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Job Placement for the Disabled
4 Main Points

• Introduction
• High Value-Adding Best Practices
• Top-Quartile Benchmarks (TQB)
• Developing Economies
• Corporations
• Non-Governmental Organizations
• Conclusions

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Job Placement for the Disabled
Conclusions

• This presentation aimed to
• Present the opportunities and actionable
  solutions that are available to the global
  community and should be available to disabled
  persons in the South Caucasus so that they can
  reap the benefits of advanced training, career
  development, and employment programs.
• Maximize the potential of the disabled in the
  labor market.
• Enhance integration of people with physical
  disabilities into mainstream society and to
  improve their socioeconomic status.

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Job Placement for the Disabled
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