Profit by Hiring Workers with Disabilities - A Six Circles of Success Report

In an increasingly challenging business economy, companies are finding it more difficult to hire and retain skilled employees. Businesses nationwide have turned to a relatively untapped talent pool to help them increase profit margins while at the same time improve their public image. In this video, we reveal the six circles of success to profiting, by hiring workers with disabilities

Based on Earnworks.com / ODEP Business Case for Hiring Persons with Disabilities

CONTACT INFORMATION for LOUISIANA

Louisiana Workforce Development/Vocational Rehabilitation/Employer Services:
http://www.laworks.net/WorkforceDev/LRS/LRS_EmployerServices.asp

Louisiana Workforce Development/Veterans Services:
http://www.laworks.net/WorkforceDev/VeteransServices/Vet_Main.asp
Employer Resources Site Regarding Employing Persons with Disabilities:
http://www.earnworks.com/

Job Accommodations Network: http://www.jan.wvu.edu/media/atoz.htm
Louisiana Assistive Technology Access Network: http://www.latan.org
Independent Living Regional Contacts and Centers for Persons with Disabilities:
http://www.ilru.org/html/publications/directory/louisiana.html

Louisiana Governor's Office of Disability Affairs: http://www.goda.la.gov

Louisiana Medicaid Infrastructure Grant -- Work Pays Resources Site:
http://www.work-pays.org/

Louisiana 2-1-1 (Linking People and Resources): http://www.louisiana211.org/


CREDITS A production sponsored by the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, Medicaid Infrastructure Grant -- 2011

Based on Earnworks.com / ODEP Business Case for Hiring Persons with Disabilities

Anchor: Gerardo Davila

Executive Producer: Terri Brock Axelson, Centerpoint Community Services/Louisiana 2-1-1, and the City of Shreveport Mayor's Advisory Council on Persons with Disabilities

Produced by Fairfield Studios

Director - Clint McCommon

Director of Photography -- Joey Barto

Key Grip -- Alec McCommon

Sound Engineer -- Dana McCommon

Senior Editor and Graphic Designer -- Joey Barto

Graphic Designer -- Alec McCommon

New Jersey Camera Operator -- Rick Seefried

Spanish Voice Over: Marjorie Ocho Kouns

Spanish Voice Over: Mario Alberto Leal

Voice Over: Kent Dean


Special Thanks To:

Jim Lunny, Vice President of Workforce Development Solutions, GettingHired.com

Lynne Broussard, Director of Human Resources, BlueCross BlueShield of Louisiana

Todd Schexnayder, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, BlueCross BlueShield of Louisiana

David Terry, Sales Manager, Down Home Meats

Warren Harris, GIS Tech, Metropolitan Planning Commission

Gregory J. Pawlikowski, Civil Drafter, City of Shreveport

Ron Norwood, City Engineer, City of Shreveport

Charles Kirkland, Executive Director, Metropolitan Planning Commission

Robin Mayhall, Senior Writer, BlueCross BlueShield of Louisiana

Randy Lewis, Senior Vice President, Distribution and Logistics, Walgreens

Cedric Glover, Mayor of City of Shreveport

New Horizons Independent Living Center - Mitch Iddins, IL Program Director

City of Shreveport

BlueCross BlueShield of Louisiana

GettingHired.Com

Down Home Meats

Walgreens

US Department of Labor Office of Disability Employment Policy

Employer Resource Site Regarding Employing Persons with Disabilities (Earnworks.com)

NBC Nightly News

Saving the World at Work by Tim Sanders

Job Accommodations Network


©2011 Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, Medicaid Infrastructure Grant - 2011
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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