To celebrate NDEAM, MCD puts the spotlight on Minnesotans with disabilities seeking employment. Meet Dupree Edwards. Dupree is a local rapper and performing artist. Dupree talks about how essential job coaches are in finding competitive integrated employment and why people with disabilities deserve to move up the career ladder.
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NDEAM Employment Stories Spotlight: Erin Thomson
To celebrate NDEAM, MCD is putting the spotlight on Minnesotans with disabilities seeking employment. Erin Thomson is the owner of RolledClay, a local, online jewelry and accessory shop. Erin talks about the ableism and discrimination she experienced while searching for work and how “showing the world what two disabled hands can do” has led her down a path to success.
Reasonable Accommodations: Your Right in the Workplace
Folks with disabilities have been adapting to a world not built for them for thousands of years. MCD is working to flip this view on its head: a reasonable accommodation adapts a portion of the world to the needs of people with disabilities. Providing employees with the tools and supports they need, regardless of ability level, is just good business. When employees succeed, businesses succeed!
Masking to Ensure Safe Schools for Students with Disabilities
MCD’s letter to Minnesota school boards and superintendents explaining our support for mask mandates in schools.
Thanks to the ADA… Employment – ADA 31
Thanks to the ADA, people with disabilities–who possess a multitude of other abilities–have equal access to finding the independence and self-worth afforded by employment.
LGBTQ+ Pride and Disability: Coming Out
Much of the success of the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement came from the millions of LGBTQ+ people who bravely “came out” & affirmed their LGBTQ+ identities to the world. Trevor Turner writes that a “coming out” movement could bring similar success to the disability community.