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Highlights

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

Cartoons About Disability Will Educate Children

Cornell Chronicle
Familiarizing children with disability is the goal of a Northeast ADA Center video project launching this summer and aimed at students in kindergarten through third grade.
Cartoons About Disability Will Educate Children

Can My Boss Force Me Not to Wear a Face Mask at Work?

Wall Street Journal
Wendy Strobel Gower, program director at the Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability, says, “It comes down to: Does your company have an obligation to follow the guidance of federal and also state and local authorities?”
Can My Boss Force Me Not to Wear a Face Mask at Work?

Embracing Neurodiversity

HR’s role in workplace inclusion of autism

Embracing Neurodiversity

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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