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Center for Advancing Policy on Employment for Youth

With a goal of improving employment outcomes for youth and young adults with disabilities, the center helps states build capacity in their youth service delivery and workforce systems.

CAPE-Youth project details

Employer Assistance and Resource Network on Disability Inclusion

With a goal of increasing the capacity of employers to recruit, hire, retain, and advance people with disabilities, the project seeks to identify and disseminate evidence-based policies and effective practices.

EARN project details

Northeast ADA Center

The Northeast ADA Center aims to educate and empower people to implement the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in their lives, workplaces, and communities.

Northeast ADA Center project details

NYS Consortium for Advancing and Supporting Employment

The consortium provides training throughout New York and elsewhere to help supported employment specialists enhance their knowledge and gain credentials in the field.

NYS CASE project details

Subminimum Wage to Competitive Integrated Employment

This project conducts the program evaluation of a demonstration project aimed at increasing the number of people with disabilities in New York employed at a competitive wage, instead of a subminimum wage.

SWTCIE project details

YTI Courses and Products

eCornell courses on workplace disability inclusion
YTI faculty teach two eCornell courses for HR professionals, Workplace Disability Inclusion and Autism at Work.

Work Incentive Support Center
The center offers a website, Disability Benefits at Work, along with courses that provide credentialing in work incentives for people with disabilities. Courses include Work Incentive Planning for Benefit Practitioners, Benefits Planning for Transition-Aged Youth, and Benefits Planning for Veterans.

Just-in-Time Toolkit™
The Just-in-Time Toolkit™ is a customized, quick reference that engages employees in understanding the desired culture around disability and following disability-related policies and procedures.

YTI’s dedicated staff and faculty are committed to increasing inclusion for people with disabilities. Without their hard work, we wouldn’t be able to do what we do.
WENDY STROBEL GOWER, THOMAS P. GOLDEN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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Impact Stories, News Articles, and Highlights

More YTI Stories

Neurodiversity and Employment: Podcast Features Bruyère

Neurodiversity in the workplace is the topic of a Cornell Keynotes podcast episode with Susanne Bruyère from the Yang-Tan Institute.
Software developer wearing a headset to filter out unwanted noise
Neurodiversity and Employment: Podcast Features Bruyère

Counselors Benefit from Disability-Related Training

What do you get when you combine experts in the disability field at the Yang-Tan Institute with vocational rehabilitation counselors in New York state?
Student participating in a small-group online class
Counselors Benefit from Disability-Related Training

Bruyère Educates Saudi Officials on Disability Rights

Susanne Bruyère, a disability rights activist who has spent her career researching and advocating for policy change around inclusive hiring, recently assisted Saudi Arabia’s efforts to promote disability rights.
Susanne Bruyère give a presentation in Saudi Arabia.
Bruyère Educates Saudi Officials on Disability Rights