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The Lander & Riverton Business Leadership Network (LR-BLN) is an employer-led coalition dedicated to promoting opportunities that benefit Lander & Riverton employers and people with disabilities.  The LR-BLN provides training and support to employers to assist with tapping into this valuable emerging market of new employees and customers.

 

 

 

Sponsors are business partners who support the BLN through volunteering, in-kind contributions or monetary contributions. 

Our Business partners make it possible for the BLN to promote employment of persons with disAbilities and disAbility awareness in Riverton & Lander.   

DVR can help you find the right employee for your business and make the employment process easy and economically beneficial!

The Wyoming State Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (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:

§ 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 and 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.

 Meet Your DVR Counselors:

Ted Knowles
Riverton Field Office
609 E. Madison Street #3.
(307)-856-2393

 

Greggrey Flood
Lander Field Office
259 Main Street.
(307)-332-4465 

 

Visit our website at:   http://www.wyomingworkforce.org/vr/

 

 

 

 

 
  • 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)