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Highlights

YTI Awarded Field-Initiated Research Grants

News about three field-initiated research grants that YIT was recently awarded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research
Wendy Strobel Gower
YTI Awarded Field-Initiated Research Grants

Working Together Emphasized at YTI Conference

Hosted by the Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability, the conference Working Together: Advancing Disability Inclusion in NYS Workplaces brought together leaders, providers, educators, and self-advocates for presentations and conversations.
Susanne Bruyere, speaking at the Working Together conference
Working Together Emphasized at YTI Conference

DisabilityStatistics.org Offers Visualization and Local Data

For those who need data about disability, the revamped DisabilityStatistics.org website offers a wide range of information. A Feb. 26 webinar will introduce new data and features.
Screenshot of Disability Statistics Home page shows the tagline "Disability stats your way". It also shows an athlete doing a sqat. The athlete has a prosthetic leg.
DisabilityStatistics.org Offers Visualization and Local Data

In the News

Labor Department Moves to End Disability Hiring Goal for Federal Contractors

Mother Jones
Sarah von Schrader, director of research and program evaluation at the Yang-Tan Institute in the ILR School, comments on a proposed rule from the Department of Labor to end a required disability hiring goal for federal contractors.
Labor Department Moves to End Disability Hiring Goal for Federal Contractors

Employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities is #Solvable

The Rockefeller Foundation
Susanne Bruyère shares how engaging businesses can help to identify, reach, train, and support disabled populations who may have been previously overlooked to empower talent and provide them with employment opportunities.
Employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities is #Solvable

Cornell Keynotes Podcast: Neurodiversity Inclusion Policies and Practices at Work

Cornell Chronicle
In an episode of the Cornell Keynotes podcast from eCornell, Susanne Bruyère, academic director of the Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability, discusses the growing number of corporate affirmative hiring programs to recruit individuals who are neurodivergent.
Cornell Keynotes Podcast: Neurodiversity Inclusion Policies and Practices at Work

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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