• April 3, 2015

    by: Emily Hastings

    UN Challenges Businesses To Hire More On The Spectrum

    The leader of the United Nations is calling on businesses around the world to step up and do their part in employing people with autism. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is launching a “call to action,” urging employers to make “concrete […]

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  • January 9, 2015

    by: Emily Hastings

    Organizational Employment Training & Transition to Community Employment

    UCP of Greater Cleveland is in the process of developing a curriculum for our Organizational Employment** (OE) clients that will help them identify a path to employment. Right now UCP’s main focus is giving our staff the tools they will […]

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  • January 7, 2015

    by: Emily Hastings

    Report: People With Disabilities Paid A Third Less

    Workers with disabilities earn 37 percent less than their typically-developing peers, on average, even in cases where they have similar levels of education, a new analysis finds. In 2011, people with disabilities took in 63 cents for every dollar paid […]

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  • December 19, 2014

    by: Emily Hastings

    Feds Inch Closer To Disability Hiring Goal

    The federal government added people with disabilities to its payroll at a higher rate last year than at any other time in the last three decades. More than 16,000 people with disabilities were hired by the U.S. government during fiscal […]

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  • November 14, 2014

    by: Emily Hastings

    Donald Hartmiller

    Upon first meeting Donald Hartmiller, it is evident that he is a determined, confident young man who has a very bright future ahead of him. Donald became a client of UCP of Greater Cleveland’s Community Employment Program back in 2010. […]

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