We and my own office have 22 percent of our staff are people with disabilities. And we know this, because 22 percent of our staff came in on our state hiring program, which is called leap limited examination i cant remember what the a, stands for. And i will have to look it up. Limited examination and process is the p. And i will be happy to get you that information, 22 percent of our staff came in on the leap as did i. I will tell you that as somebody who came in as a person with a disability, who experienced being hired by an employer that took a chance to me to do a good job. I am more than happy to disclose my disability and i can tell you that the reason that we know that 22 percent, you know of our staff, with the disabilities because they are going to do the same and we know this by virtue of selfdisclosure. And we do, you know, the state organization, we do not coerce people into disclosing, but we have a voluntary state wide not just in the department rehab, we have the volunt
Significantly, from our perspective and from our members perspective and the other stuff that we have heard in the community is that it does limit to entry level positions and i know, that it was discussed earlier, i believe by the executive officer of the Civil Service commission that this is all refined, and you know, defined very specifically in the charter. And i know from my time working in the department of Human Resources you cannot, you cannot go against the super powers, and that is something that, it is also important that you know, that this body, the board of supervisors, has the ability to put things on the ballot to change that. And if we are able to identify a specific package of reforms that need to be made to the charter then that is something that our organization will support wholeheartedly. But also, moving forward, i think that it is important to note that there has been such a. Rule of 115 positions that have come through in the last ten years that there is no rea
Believe by the executive officer of the Civil Service commission that this is all refined, and you know, defined very specifically in the charter. And i know from my time working in the department of Human Resources you cannot, you cannot go against the super powers, and that is something that, it is also important that you know, that this body, the board of supervisors, has the ability to put things on the ballot to change that. And if we are able to identify a specific package of reforms that need to be made to the charter then that is something that our organization will support wholeheartedly. But also, moving forward, i think that it is important to note that there has been such a. Rule of 115 positions that have come through in the last ten years that there is no real formal process, as defined and pointed out by the department of rehabilitation, and you know, she, as a representative, of the state department, that is required to help people with disabilities find jobs, and was u
We help to fund whether it is retraining or i need to go to the city college and i need to get new skills or Assistive Technology and that kind of thing. And we help to job match our consumers at the end of that process. We and my own office have 22 percent of our staff are people with disabilities. And we know this, because 22 percent of our staff came in on our state hiring program, which is called leap limited examination i cant remember what the a, stands for. And i will have to look it up. Limited examination and process is the p. And i will be happy to get you that information, 22 percent of our staff came in on the leap as did i. I will tell you that as somebody who came in as a person with a disability, who experienced being hired by an employer that took a chance to me to do a good job. I am more than happy to disclose my disability and i can tell you that the reason that we know that 22 percent, you know of our staff, with the disabilities because they are going to do the sam
Down because people can disabilities are finding jobs. It means that the people with disabilities by and large are giving up. And that is the important thing to say that that is the discussion in which we are framing this, you know, that is really where we are when we frame this discussion. So most importantly, the big question that we are all asking here today, so what. Employment for people with disabilities, and the employment, across the entire population is a reflection of ones identity. It is something that a lot of us take for granted and everybody has to get up and go to work in the morning, to actually kind of a drag. And well, one of the most, and when you meet somebody new, one of the first questions that you ask, is, what do you do for a living . Well the answer to that question, is, i do nothing, how will people with disabilities ever be perceived as equals in the society. And when we talk about having the people with disabilities in the employment sector, it is important