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YAI launched as a pilot program at a small school in Brooklyn, New York, in February 1957. [1] The pilot program was run by co-founders Bert MacLeech and Pearl Maze and served seven people with I/DD. [2] Today, YAI has expanded to a team of over 4,000 employees and supports over 20,000 people in the I/DD community.
It was at that time that the Hatlen's decided to start a post-secondary school for young adults with learning disabilities, since one did not already exist in Minnesota, and it was at this time that Minnesota Life College was opened. Minnesota Life College changed their name on August 1, 2018 to Minnesota Independence College and Community.
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988 (the "WARN Act") is a U.S. labor law that protects employees, their families, and communities by requiring most employers with 100 or more employees to provide notification 60 calendar days in advance of planned closings and mass layoffs of employees. [1]
Per the ADA, employers with 15 or more employees must engage in an interactive process to determine if an employee’s condition qualifies as a disability before taking adverse action.
The ASCEND program offers grants to Black students with disabilities in NJ who want to make schools more accessible. Applications are due this month. Leadership training program offered for Black ...
Bernard was part of a GM Fellowship program at Harvard and was fully supported for two years. When I talked with Bernard by phone, I asked him if he was actually awake at 5 a.m. when he got that ...
Disability service providers, many parents, and disabled workers themselves support the workshops and state that eliminating the minimum wage exemption would eliminate those jobs and the choice to work (because many with severe disabilities will never be able to perform at the level of an ordinary worker) and thereby prevent disabled people ...
When NAFTA was originally ratified, the U.S. federal government waxed eloquently about investing in job retraining programs to assist workers who might lose their livelihoods to cheaper labor from ...