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Event to Honor Businesses That Employ Those With Disabilities

Published Monday Oct 13, 2014

The sixth annual statewide Employer Recognition Ceremony will be held on Thursday, Oct 16, beginning at 8:15 a.m. at the Currier Museum of Arts in Manchester. 

The event honors New Hampshire businesses with an Employment Leadership Award for demonstrating exceptional leadership, innovation and/or a commitment to adopting hiring practices that improve employment opportunities for workers with disabilities.

The five 2014 Employment Leadership Award winners were selected from numerous company nominees, submitted by employment providers and partners throughout the state. Nominations were evaluated based on the company’s efforts to: create opportunities that assist people with disabilities to develop the skills they need to obtain competitive employment; adopt inclusive hiring practices that allow people with disabilities to fairly compete for employment; and engage community partners to become a more diverse and inclusive workplace.

Expected to be on hand to congratulate and thank the winners are Governor Maggie Hassan; Fred Kocher of WMUR NH's Business; Carmen Lorentz, director NH Division of Economic Development; Lisa Hatz, NH Vocational Rehabilitation state director; Charles Saia, executive director, NH Governor’s Commission on Disability; David Ouellette, director of projects, NH Council on Developmental Disabilities; and Jim Hinson, statewide program coordinator, corporate relations for NH Vocational Rehabilitation.

Initiated in 2009, the Statewide Employer Recognition Ceremony and the Employment Leadership Award acknowledge the efforts of Granite State businesses that are actively implementing disability employment practices. Employment Leadership Award recipients in 2013 were Dyn, Kendal at Hanover, Chunky’s Cinema Pub and the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

To attend this event, contact Jim Hinson at 271-7093 or Jim.Hinson@doe.nh.gov for a registration form and agenda or purchase tickets online here.

 

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