Northeast Tennessee Career Centers Disabiity Services

Disability Services

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The Northeast Tennessee Career Centers provide workforce services for job seekers with disabilities. The Centers are accessible, and provide Assistive Technology Work Stations to job seekers and employers with disabilities.

The Tennessee Career Centers strive to provide assistance to employers and job seekers who are either disabled or seeking to hire individuals with disabilities into the workforce.

2008 Summer Disability Newsletter

Local resources for services to individuals with disabilities and employer services include:

FreedomtoWork.org - The Freedom to Work website was developed using funds from the Work Incentive Grant from U.S. Department of Labor Employment & Training Administration that was awarded to the Northeast Tennessee Workforce Investment Board and administered by the Alliance for Business and Training (AB&T).

State/Federal online resources are: Tennessee Vocational Rehabilitation, Support Employment, Tennessee Committee for the Employment of People with Disabilities, Tennessee Technology Access Program, Center on Disability, Tennessee Disability Coalition-Benefits to Work, The Work Site Social Security Online, Federal Employment of People with Disabilities, Department of Labor-ODEP (Office of Disability Employment Policy), Tennessee Employer Disability Tax Credit

Northeast Tennessee Diversity in Employment Consortium

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The Northeast Tennessee Diversity in Employment Consortium held its first Business Appreciation Reception on October 30, 2007 at the Visitor’s Center in Jonesborough, TN. Local employers were honored and received the Governor's Award for their recognition in achievements for employing individuals with disabilities plus individual employees received the Governor's Employee Awards for their contribution to their employers. Guest speakers for this event were Kathy Pierce, Alliance for Business and Training; Teresa Broome, TN Dept of Labor & Workforce Development; David B Hawk, TN House Representative; Alan Broyles, Mayor of Greene County; Steve Godsey, Mayor of Sullivan County; Susan Arwood, TN Department of Rehabilitation Services; and Regena Burrow, Employment Coordinator, TN.

The 2007 Governor's Employer Awardees included: A-1 Auto Salvage, Inc, Greene County Express, Jane's Fiber and Beads, Professional Vending Services, Inc., ACT, Spherion, Food City, Video Magic, HealthSouth, Veteran's Affairs, James H Quillen Medical Center, RR Donnelly and Volunteer Blind Industries. The 2007 Governor's Employee Awardees included: Morgan Vicars, Christina Christiansen, Christy Smith, Wanda Corby, Clark Thompson and Adam Johnston. Additional employer recognitions went to Angus Palm BMS, Ci Ci's Pizza, Citi, Forward Air, Holston Valley Hospital, HT Hackney, Plus Mark, Wal-Mart, WBEJ and Wyndham.

For more information about the Northeast Tennessee Diversity in Employment Consortium please contact Layla Wright at 423.612.0222. Ext 022.