October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month

Expect. Employ. Empower.

Everyone deserves the opportunity to find and perform meaningful work. This includes older adults and people with even the most significant disabilities.

Disability Month Blog Posts

• Closing the Gap: Transition to Work Programs Empower Youth with Disabilities

• Employment: the Cornerstone of Full Community Participation

• Medicaid Buy-In Opens Doors to Employment for People with Disabilities

• Boxes, Lines, and Walls: the View from an “Unconfined” Career

Learn What Our Partners Are Doing

• Presidential Proclamation—National Disability Employment Awareness Month

• Campaign for Disability Employment

• Library of Congress

• Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy

• Disability.gov’s Guide to Employment

• U.S. Army

• Department of Defense

Read A Story

• Griffinhammis (PDF)

• Real Work Stories