Mayors Issue Disability Employee Awareness Proclamations
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- Pictured with Dunkirk Mayor Kate Wdowiasz’s proclamation are, from left, Paul Hurley from The Resource Center’s Employment Services Program; Ashley Winship, Sandy Korzeniewski, Nick Bell and Dylan Reed from TRC’s Allied Industries manufacturing division; Mayor Wdowiasz; Denise Jones, TRC’s executive directoor; Lynne Newman from TRC’s Employment Services; and Beth Ray, who works at the Mary Andrews Center and is an advisor for TRC’s Make a Mark self-advocacy group.
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- Pictured from left, MacKenzie Smith, Jamestown Mayor Kim Ecklund, Alex Smith, and Lynne Newman, The Resource Center’s employment services administrator, pose with the Mayor’s proclamation declaring October as NDEAM Month in the city. Alex and MacKenzie are supported through TRC’s Employment Services Program. In addition to issuing the proclamation, Mayor Ecklund plans to have City Hall lit up in purple, pink, blue, red, and green October 29 and 30 in recognition of NDEAM.
Jamestown Mayor Kim Ecklund and Dunkirk Mayor Kate Wdowiasz each proclaimed October as National Disability Employment Awareness Month in their respective cities.
Ecklund invited representatives from The Resource Center to City Hall for a photo to commemorate the observance. Wdowiasz visited The Resource Center’s Mary Andrews Center on East Chestnut Street to meet with employees and talk about the ways in which The Resource Center supports people with disabilities to have community-based jobs.
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, which celebrates the value and talent that workers with disabilities add to the workforce. The NDEAM 2024 theme is “Access to Good Jobs for All.” The Resource Center offers a variety of supports that help people with disabilities obtain and maintain jobs.
At TRC’s Allied Industries manufacturing centers in Dunkirk and Jamestown, workers with disabilities produce items for the federal government and local industries. TRC’s Environmental Services Division performs janitorial services at local businesses and governmental facilities. And TRC’s Employment Services Program assists people with disabilities in finding jobs and then provides job coaching so employees can be successful. By partnering with local businesses, The Resource Center supports more than 200 people with disabilities to have jobs.
For more information about employment opportunities for people with disabilities, visit resourcecenter.org or phone 716-483-2344.
