Each year on the third Wednesday of October during National Disability Employment Month (NDEAM) is Disability Mentoring Day (DMD), a nationwide effort to promote career development for students with disabilities through hands-on career exploration. Students with disabilities (mentees) are matched with workplace mentors according to expressed career interests. Mentees experience a typical day on the job and learn how to prepare to enter the world of work. Employers gain an increased awareness that people with disabilities represent an overlooked talent pool.
DMD is a program of the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD).
For more information, refer to: History of DMD and Publications & Links - DMD
In celebration of Disability Mentoring Day (DMD) held each year on the third Wednesday of October during National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM)...
The Southeast ADA Center announces the pilot project, I Have a Dream: Creating your Life Portfolio, to focus on prevention efforts as it will introduce and expose students with disabilities and their parents, through the arts and music, to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) along with the myriad of education and career options available to them beyond their K-12 educational years.
The pilot project consists of three components:
All project activities will be systematically documented and placed into a curriculum format to share across the region and nationally. The curricula will include resource materials with relevant and current information in best-practices, capacity building, resource development, and coalition building.
We hope you will join us in providing students with disabilities an opportunity to experience a “real life” typical day on the job and learn how to prepare to enter the world of work. For more information, contact: L. Elaine Sutton Mbionwu, NDEAM/DMD Coordinator at (404) 541-9001 [voice/tty] or email lesutton@law.syr.edu.
Disability Mentoring Day (DMD) began in 1999 as part of a White House effort to increase the profile of National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), which is celebrated every October. DMD has grown every year since its inception from fewer than three-dozen student participants (1999) to over 20,000 youth with disabilities participating nationally and 23 international locations mentored by more than 2,000 private, non-profit, governmental, and educational organizations (2010).
Employers (private, non-profit, government, educational), students with disabilities, and educators participate in Disability Mentoring Day.
Visit Disability Mentoring Day - project of the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD).
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