Employing People With Disabilities: A Preliminary Assessment of a Start-Up Initiative

Abstract

A major city in Pennsylvania initiated the Career Transition Liaison Project, the first of its kind in the region. Based on a mixed method evaluation design, the pilot study findings show that employing youth with disabilities requires certain accommodations and an initial investment in training, but these investments pay off for the employer.

Keywords:

• Disability
• youth development
• inclusion
• employment
• employment accommodation for people with disabilities
• corporate image
• career transition
• and investment