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Customers with intellectual disabilities are chronically unemployed. Creating effective employment portfolios is an essential part of highlighting your customer’s skills to prospective employers and helping the customer get to “you’re hired.” The webinar will be a bottom-up tutorial on all aspects of this process.
Objectives
Upon completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Define what an employment portfolio is and is not.
- Design effective employment portfolios that showcase a customer’s skills
- Understand that, with adequate supports and an invested employer, customers with intellectual disabilities can work in office environments.
About the presenter:
Steve McEvoy is a former NYC 7-12 general and special education social studies teacher with an MA in education from Teachers College Columbia University. He has a passion for teaching young adults with disabilities the necessary skills to succeed in the workplace in the face of discrimination they will encounter.
Due to living with cerebral palsy and a determination to close the disability employment gap since 2012, Steve has been working as a Disability Employment Specialist. His work encompasses three areas:
- Teach companies how/why hiring and marketing to people with disabilities increases profits and brand presence. In 2016, Steve co-presented on the topic at Googles NYC headquarters. The presentation was simulcast to every Google office worldwide.
- Write about subjects related to disability and employment.
- Help people with and without disabilities reach their employment goals.
