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Training and recruiting of Delaware workers with disabilities should be enhanced thanks to a new alliance between the public and private sectors.

While disabled workers have seen more job opportunities come their way in recent years, they remain in many ways a vast field of uncultivated talent. The private-public partnership, between an agency of the U.S. Labor Department and the world’s largest association of human resource professionals, should change that, providing more jobs and preparing people with disabilities to be ready for the 21^st century labor market.

The public agency is the Office of Disability Employment policy, otherwise known as ODEP. The association is the Society of Human Resource Managers, or SHRM.

“This alliance formalizes the relationship we have had with SHRM,” says Assistant Secretary of Labor for Disability Employment Policy Roy Grizzard, “benefiting SHRM as it serves its membership with the resources ODEP brings to the table and offering ODEP the opportunity for broader contact with human resource professionals.”

The new private-public team takes as its mission the promotion of training, outreach, education, technical assistance and communication for potential employees with disabilities. Recruiting will be a part of the goal, along with education, access, and research, all aimed at hiring more disabled workers.

The partnership should also begin a new national conversation about hiring persons with disabilities.

The Society of Human Resource Managers, or SHRM, dates back to 1948. With its 550 affiliated chapters and more than 205,000 members, it is considered the largest organization in the world dedicated to serving the needs of professionals in the human resource field. It carries out its mission by offering crucial and wide-ranging resources.

The Office of Disability Employment Policy, or ODEP, was formed in 2001 under Labor Secretary Elaine Chao. The plan was to guarantee that the talents of disabled persons would be fully used by the workforce of the new century.

 

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