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>> LOU ORSLENE: All right, good afternoon, everyone and welcome to the Job Accommodation Network's Monthly Webcast Series. I'm Lou Orslene and I'll be moderating today's session entitled "Disability Inclusionary Practices" from the Poses Family Foundation. A Disability Employment and Inclusion DIY Guide. The session this afternoon will be led by James Emmett, Lead Strategist for the Workplace INitiative at the Poses Family Foundation. And he'll be walking us through the DIY Guide.
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Now let me introduce our speaker for today, James Emmett.
The James Emmett brand is one of the most recognizable in the field of disability inclusion. He is currently the Lead Strategist for the Workplace INitiative for the Poses Family Foundation where he oversees strategy development and implementation of projects that impact the area of disability inclusion. James has worked on many of the most visible disability projects in the country with companies like Walgreens, Best Buy, Office Depot and Office Max, PepsiCo, Mercyhealth Working through APSE HR Connect, James serves as Lead Consultant for TIAA-CREF "Fruits of Employment" project. Also in partnership with the West Suburban Chamber of Commerce & Industry, James helped develop and narrate a video entitled "Improving Customer Service for People with Disabilities", which has been viewed over 18,000 times on YouTube.
So now let's hear from James. let's begin our presentation. James?
>> JAMES EMMETT: Thank you, Lou and thank you everybody for taking the time to join us It's a pleasure. We are going to talk about the Do It Yourself Guide and for all of our companies listening today we're hopefully either going to help you start or enhance your journey on your disability inclusion strategy.
So if we go from the title slide to Slide 2, we'll -- you'll see the agenda for today's web session. And first we're just going to quickly go over the objectives of the call, of our webinar. And then we're going to talk just briefly about some background on the Poses Family Foundation and the guide that we are about to present to you and then we're going to get into the meat of it, which is the overview of each section in the Do It Yourself Guide on disability inclusion and how you as a company can utilize the guide.
So if we go to the next slide, which is Slide 3, I'll try to reference slide numbers, given the connection. We are looking -- so the objectives for the next 50 minutes or so is first to learn how and why the Do It Yourself Guide was created.
We also want to begin to make you familiar with the guidance self. And how to use the content in each of the key sections.
And lastly, hopefully, one of the things you'll take away from your utilization of the guide moving forward but also from today's webinar is just some of the basic tenets that make -- we believe make a disability inclusion program within a company successful.
So we're going to start. Slide 4 is the title slide. And we're going to move on to Slide 5.
Some background. So I just want to give -- we want to give quickly the Workplace INitiative is an initiative through as Lou mentioned the Poses Family Foundation. And the Poses Family Foundation is -- was founded by Fred and Nancy Poses. And our president is Shelly London. And the foundation has many reaches, has done a lot of amazing work.
But two of the flagship programs, No 1 is the foundation has developed a web tool, more than a web. It's kind of a web universe called Understood. So if you go to understood.org, this is a tool for news companies that are interested specifically in looking at more supports for folks with learning disabilities and Attention Deficit Disorder. It's an amazing resource for parents and teachers specific to learning disabilities and Attention Deficit Disorder.
But the second initiative that we'll talk about today and focus on today of the foundation is what we call the Workplace INitiative. And the Workplace INitiative was really founded by Fred and Nancy Poses to take a look at the outcomes for individuals with disabilities as a whole. How do we not just build successful employment but how do we build successful careers? And to that end, we understand and Fred and Nancy understood, that the companies are key -- a key constituent in that outcome.
So one of the things that has been a focus over the last five years of our work has been to look at projects to establish best practice on how companies hire, recruit and train individuals with disabilities. And how to build support structures around that.
We also are proud to have several great organizations that are learning disability on the slide that have helped us in this journey. And then now co-fund a lot of the projects that we undertake so that includes the Kessler Foundation, Autism Speaks, the Ruderman Family Foundation, Next For Autism, the Neilsen Foundation, ICD, 100 Percent Wine and the May and Stanley Smith Charitable Trust. So we are grateful to have this partnership and how they are looking to improve the disability field as a whole.
If you go to the next slide, Slide 6 talks a little bit about the projects of our Workplace INitiative and honestly until right about the last couple of months upon the release of the Do It Yourself Guide, which we will talk about, is we really as a foundation have stayed behind the scenes, the Poses Family Foundation. We have tried to let some of the initiatives that we have focused on kind of be out front and our team kind of stays behind the scenes. But we are proud to have a three-prong strategy what we call our national, local and field building. Our national strategy has proudly worked with a variety of different organizations across the country to support great companies in their disability inclusion journey So we've been fortunate to work with Cintas and Pepsi and Proctor & Gamble and Sears and Conduent from the past Xerox we proudly work with the USBLN in their going for the gold project all projects that have focused on helping large companies build their disability inclusion strategy from attracting more workers with disabilities to retaining and supporting and promoting those workers.
So -- we work with some great, great community partners, which are on the list, as well. We also have our second prong, we have local projects. So we have worked in communities like Columbus, Ohio, Louisville, Kentucky, St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri and now moving to Atlanta and New York City to really help local because we understand all recruiting ultimately is local so we are building models to help the local disability community be more efficient to help companies actively source people with disabilities for the variety of positions across different communities. So that's kind of our local model. And then we are talking today about what we call our field building.
So our next part of our journey is to share our learnings on best practices related to disability inclusion in our field building journey.
So if you go to the next slide, it highlights -- Slide 7 talks a little bit about why the Do It Yourself Guide was created. And we really wanted to create -- one of the challenges of our founders and our president, Shelly London at the foundation was to -- how do we begin to scale disability inclusion? How do we help every country, every company in the country realize the benefits of engaging in disability inclusion efforts. And that includes the large companies, many of who are potentially on the phone today on the webinar today. But
