Overview
The Opportunity Center offers adults with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to participate in Community Experience Small Group (CESG). Community Experience Small Group boosts small 3-person groups with activities that are conducted and provided in the community. These small groups focus on relationship building through partnerships, and community integration via community service, self-advocacy, self-care, recreation and learning.
Creating an Environment for Success
We deploy a detailed assessment of our clients’ workplace and practices—including recruiting policies, physical work spaces, social gatherings, meeting protocols, internal communications, and other vital facets of business operations—to identify and address any barriers in accessibility or inclusion that may prevent the hiring of a candidate with disabilities.
Disability Awareness and Bias Training
Our team of disability experts provide a wide range of corporate disability awareness trainings to our clients, including managing and working with individuals with I/DD, effective hiring practices for people with I/DD, accommodations for people with I/DD, and more. Tell us what your training needs are, and we will create a customized plan based on your preferences.
Connecting Employers to the Untapped Disability Labor Market
Many local agencies, schools, social and religious groups, and other organizations serve people with disabilities. The Arc@Work helps our corporate clients forge connections and vet these organizations as sources for qualified and talented job seekers.
Securing Supports for New Hires
The Arc@Work partners with our corporate clients, local talent sourcing organizations, and state governments to ensure that each individual in need of workplace accommodations is accounted for and that their needs are met.
Achieving Cultural and Financial ROI
As with all business decisions, the success and sustainability of a disability hiring project can be measured in part by its return on investment. The Arc@Work supports our corporate clients in creating strategies to achieve and measure financial ROI as well as creating branding and external messaging strategies to promote our clients’ disability inclusive work culture.
TalentScout
TalentScout gives you the tools and insight to create a culture of inclusion – and build higher levels of productivity in the workplace. The toolkit content has been vetted by people with autism, and it includes their first-hand accounts and insights as job applicants and employees.
The Arc promotes and protects the human rights of people with intellectual and
developmental disabilities and actively supports their full inclusion and participation in the community
throughout their lifetimes.