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CBLN Mission Statement

The Cheyenne Business Leadership Network is an employer led initiative dedicated to providing opportunities to build a diverse workforce and customer base that includes persons with disabilities.

 

Our program goals include developing business leaders who actively promote recruiting and retaining employees and customers with disabilities, and to provide disability awareness to the general public.  

The Cheyenne BLN is sponsored by the Wyoming Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, Synergy HRD & Associates, and many local businesses.

 

 

 

    Cheyenne BLN 2009 -2010 Sponsors

Sponsors are business partners who support the BLN  through volunteering, in-kind contributions or monatary contributions. Our Business partners make it possible for the BLN to promote employment of persons with disAbilities and disAbility awareness in Cheyenne. 

 

        

 

 

                          


             


        

 

        

  

                 

                                     

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Arron’s Rent-to-own

Arrow Moving & Storage

Bresnan Communications

Brett Henry Construction

Cheyenne-Steak & Sausage

Clayton Gray

Dance Spirit Dance Studio

Frontier Access & Mobility

Governor’s Council on DD

Grant’s Farm

Halliday Motors

Home Depot

Jonah Bank

McGee, Hearne & Paiz

Prudential Insurance

RBC Wealth Management

Rieman Corporation

University of Phoenix

US Naval Reserve

Wal-Mart Distribution Center

WSLC

Wyoming Bank & Trust

WyoStep

 

Wyoming State Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR)

DVR works in partnership with people with disabilities and other stakeholders to provide services resulting in employment and equality of individuals with disabilities.

Vocational Rehabilitation Division can provide only those services which are necessary for eligible individuals to reach the employment goal agreed to in the Individualized Plan for Employment. These services may include, but are not limited to the following:

Eligibility Assessment 

Counseling and Guidance

Referral Services

Job Search and Placement Assistance

Job Retention and Career Follow-Up

Vocational and Other Training Services

Facilitation of diagnosis and treatment of physical/mental Impairments

Transportation Services

Personal Assistance Services

Deaf & Blind Interpretive Services

Rehabilitation Teaching Services

Occupational Licenses, Tools and Equipment

Self-Employment Opportunities

Rehabilitation Technology Services

Transition Services (from school-to-work)

Supported Employment Services 

To learn more about DVR and eligibility contact your local DVR office at 1510 E. Pershing Blvd or call 307-777-7364 for an appointment with a counselor.
  • 54 million Americans are people with disabilities
  • 65% of Americans with disabilities are unemployed or under-employed
  • Businesses are challenged by chronic labor shortages
  • People with disabilities represent the largest pool of untapped labor
  • Customers with disabilities control discretionary income of nearly $200 billion (twice the teen market)