Employing People with Disabilities | Greater Fort Wayne Inc.

Established in 2018, the Employing People with Disabilities Initiative creates win-win situations: employers fill their job openings with motivated employees, while people with disabilities gain more opportunities to use their skills in the workplace.

Opening pathways

The program opens pathways to employment by:

Assisting businesses

We help companies with disabilities awareness, worker retention, and more.

Empowering job seekers

We help candidates sharpen their resumes, interview skills, and more.

Making connections

We introduce qualified applicants to ready-to-hire companies.

Forming relationships

We partner with local organizations such as:

AWS Foundation

AWS Foundation supports a wide range of organizations and service agencies in northeast Indiana, working to develop a community in which people with enduring intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities are engaged fully and meaningfully in all aspects of community life.

ACRE

A Chance Re-Employment Agency (ACRE) provides training and placement services including, but not limited to resume development, skill development, and much more. They assist individuals with occupational barriers obtain workplace skills preparation for securing suitable and sustainable employment.

Benchmark Human Services

Benchmark serves individuals through the life cycle, from infancy to elder years. Programs support people at work, at 真人真钱在线游戏软件home, and in the community through residential, employment, social, therapeutic, crisis response, and day services. Benchmark specializes in serving people with intense medical needs and high behaviors, including those with forensic backgrounds.

Blue Jacket

Blue Jacket, Inc. addresses critical and unmet needs for people with disabilities, preparing them for what lies ahead, and looking for the right employment opportunities for their unique skillsets. After graduation from their three-week job-readiness training program, Blue Jacket offers job placement as well as pre- and post-placement services including education, skills and interest assessments, and personal and professional development.

CORE

The CORE Vocational Training Program for Young Adults with Disabilities provides quality instruction and meaningful work experiences to young adults. In order to provide each trainee with a real-world job experience, training is completed on-site at various locations to learn job skills that are specific to that work environment.

Easterseals Arc of Northeast Indiana

Easterseals Arc’s broad array of supports for people with disabilities includes a full range of employment services, from skills assessment to employment readiness training to job placements to on-the-job assistance. The employment team works with area employers to ensure individuals are positioned to succeed and contribute to a company’s success. Easterseals Arc is an approved Vocational Rehabilitation Services and Ticket to Work provider.

GiGi’s Playhouse

GiGi’s Playhouse changes lives through consistent delivery of free educational, therapeutic-based and career development programs for individuals with Down syndrome, their families and the community, through a replicable playhouse model.

Goodwill Industries of Northeast Indiana

Goodwill provides opportunities for people with disabilities and employment barriers to build independence through employment. Our goal is to help youth and adults with vocational awareness, employment training, self advocacy, placement services and job support.

Finder is an Indiana Disability Resource. Their slogan is "Seek. Discover. Connect. Inform."

Indiana Disability Resource Finder

Developed in 2018 through an initiative funded by AWS Foundation, FINDER gives people living with disabilities 24/7 access to a comprehensive range of community resources designed to improve their quality of life.

IndianaPop

IndianaPop’s mission is to increase access to disability services by making them easier to find. Their directory provides links and contact information for healthcare, advocacy, accessibility, and other disability-related resources and services across the state. Use IndianaPop to look up email addresses, telephone numbers, maps, and more.

JobDoozy

JobDoozy has job listings from a variety of companies actively recruiting a diverse workforce in Indiana and telecommuting workers nationwide. If you’re looking to hire people with disabilities Indiana, JobDoozy offers a free place to place your job posting that will reach qualified individuals looking for work throughout the state. JobDoozy can also help you document your good-faith efforts to hire people with disabilities.

LSSI Works

LSSI Works provides personal and professional training through a holistic approach of long-term employment coaching, employment matching, and job retention support. The cornerstone of the innovative curriculum is the fundamental belief that everyone who demonstrates motivation should have the opportunity to work. The pathway to employment is paved not only through the acquisition of critical workplace skills, but more importantly, the development of critical esteem and a sense of hope and possibility.

Partners in Autism

Partners in Autism is a family-owned, family-focused business providing quality services that respectfully and compassionately support individuals and families with special needs. Partners in Autism maintains an ever-growing autism center with an array of services including ABA therapy, employment services, and PAC waiver services with specialized training working with individuals on the autism spectrum.

Sky Point Social Services

Sky Point’s employment services specialists focus on perfecting the interpersonal skills that help clients fully integrate into the working community. Specialists act as coaches, partners, and advocates to promote confidence, build communication, and ensure stability for clients and employers.

The League

The League is a direct service provider and advocate through commitment to its mission to provide and promote opportunities that empower people with disabilities to achieve their potential.

Turnstone

Turnstone’s mission is to empower people with disabilities to achieve their highest potential by providing one of the most comprehensive offerings of services and programs to people with disabilities and their families under one roof in the United States. Turnstone’s offerings help individuals develop physically, mentally, and socially to support their fullest life.

Work to Include

Funded by the Indiana Governor’s Council for People with Disabilities, the goal of the Work to Include Coalition is to design a system of employment services and supports that ensures competitive integrated employment outcomes for Hoosiers with disabilities, including individuals with significant disabilities. The Coalition consists of individuals with disabilities, their families, and other advocates.

YMCA of Greater Fort Wayne

At the Y, our mission is to be for all. We provide a variety of adaptive programs, including baseball, basketball, music, and our Trail Buddies bike program. The YMCA offers sensory-friendly events, a state-of-the-art sensory room, sensory bags, and fidgets. Whether you’re a beginner, a seasoned athlete, or just want to have fun, come explore our adaptive programs. The YMCA is committed to inclusive hiring, including individuals with diverse abilities.