People with disabilities remain largely untapped resource in the country's workforce, compared with an unemployment rate of 70 percent.
Private non-profit, non-profit organization helps federal contracts for the agencies that employ people with disabilities to gain through the Javits-Wagner-O'Day program, is working on changing the status quo. The organization may have a new program introduced by the company as designated "Centers of Excellence" as mentors to other agencies to improve the quality of services and products are used by the federal government.
The Javits-Wagner-O'Day Program is the largest source of employment in the U.S. for people with disabilities. Often referred to as the JWOD Program provides employment opportunities for over 45,000 people who are blind or have other severe disabilities.
Through the JWOD program, private non-profit organizations working with a network of over 600 nonprofit agencies that train and employ people with disabilities.
The program is passed by the Wagner-O'Day Act, in 1938 derived and provides employment opportunities for blind people by selling mops and brooms to the federal government to produce. In 1971, Congress amended the law to include people with severe disabilities and their agencies provide services and products.
According to a recent survey by Harris Interactive, two out of three people with disabilities who are not working want to work, but the lack of opportunity and accessibility issues that prevent them from finding employment.
