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Tools You Can Use and More: 2025 Year-in-Review for YTI

The Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability highlights its 2025 impact, previews future initiatives, and offers tools you can use today.
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Tools You Can Use and More: 2025 Year-in-Review for YTI

Stress-Busting in the Workplace

Stress Awareness Day is a reminder to reflect on what stress is, how to stay ahead of it, and why one person’s overwhelming day is another person’s easy glide. It’s also a reminder to consider how to improve workplace accessibility around stress.
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Stress-Busting in the Workplace

Stress Awareness Resources

Stress-busting resources for Stress Awareness Day that you can download and use right away, as well as professional development opportunities for understanding and reducing workplace stress through a variety of lenses
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Stress Awareness Resources

In the News

Untapped opportunities for employers: Benefits of hiring people with disabilities

CHRON News
“Employers are recognizing they may be unnecessarily eliminating applicants,” said Susanne Bruyère, academic director at the Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability, sharing how health issues can create gaps in a job candidate’s employment history that may cause an AI to screen out a qualified job candidate.
Untapped opportunities for employers: Benefits of hiring people with disabilities

Local businesses recognized during National Disability Employment Awareness Month

Binghamton Homepage.com
“I think all of us find identity in our job, in our work. … We want to make sure that what we’re doing and how we’re spending our time matters,” said Wendy Strobel Gower, executive director of ILR’s Yang-Tan Institute, in a keynote speech covered in this article.
Local businesses recognized during National Disability Employment Awareness Month

Inclusive employment centre stage at IDEA Symposium

Canadian Occupational Safety
This article relays specific advice about improving employment outcomes for people with disabilities that was offered by Susanne Bruyère, academic director of the Yang-Tan Institute, in her opening keynote to the Inclusive Design for Employment Access (IDEA) Symposium at the University of Toronto.
Inclusive employment centre stage at IDEA Symposium

In New York State

YTI Works for New York State

Partnering with state agencies, policymakers, and communities across New York state to support efforts to increase employment of people with disabilities

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