SLIC Enables Persons with Disabilities and Honors the Businesses that Hire Them
Written by: Madelaine Landry, Excerpt from Thrive Magazine’s October 2019 Issue, Published on Sep 30, 2019
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If you’re like most, you take your daily life for granted. Living, working, walking, hearing, seeing, feeling, socializing, leisure activities… it can be easy to forget that for persons with disabilities, simple life choices are often more limited. Yet an incapacitating accident or illness can happen at any moment to anyone.
National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) was established in October 1945 by the U.S. Department of Labor to educated the American public about disability employment issues. The designation celebrates both the contributions of America’s workers with disabilities, as well as employers who embrace disability hiring policies.
The NDEAM 2019 theme is “The Right Talent, Right Now.” The Southwest Louisiana Independence Center (SLIC) honors both the mission and theme of NDEAM. To that end, SLIC has recently embarked on an employer appreciation program, presenting Rouses Market in Moss Bluff with its first award. SLIC Executive Director Mitchell Granger hopes their efforts will help the community recognize the empowerment that comes with successful matches between employees and employers.
