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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.

 

 

 

Promoting the Employment of People with Disabilities

The Business Leadership Network was formed to help employers improve their hiring results (and ultimately their business' success) towards people with disabilities - Lander & Riverton's most readily available source of talented, motivated prospective employees..

HISTORY

The BLN was begun as a national initiative of the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities in 1994. The program hinges on a fundamental premise that success breeds success, and that when employers get together to di scuss the benefits to their organizations of hiring job candidates with disabilities, other employers are inspired to do the same. Over 35 BLN's now exist throughout America, and the Lander & Riverton BLNs are some of the newest and most innovative coalitions to join the national network.

To learn more about the national BLN - contact Carol Dunlap at the Office of Disability Employment Policy in Washington DC at (202) 376-6200 or E-mail: dunlap-carol@dol.gov

HOW IT WORKS

Business and community leaders are invited to join our local network. In partnership with the State of Wyoming - Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) and other important community employment agencies, LR-BLN staff work with individual employers to develop a local BLN Steering Committee to help guide BLN development activities. Training, technical support and other resources are then provided to help encourage improved hiring results within the disability community.


The LR-BLN motto is to provide low-cost, high impact activities and services which:
  • Promote best practices relating to employment and people with disabilities
  • Provide networking and professional development opportunities for employers who want to have better access to the disability community
  • Build effective connections between employers and community partners
  • Improve the response time in delivering qualified job candidates to employers
  • Access quality, career-oriented employment opportunities for job seekers
  • Encourage creative, aggressive employer disability recruitment outreach efforts

The LR-BLN invites you to join our BLN community

BENEFITS TO YOU:

Once you join the LR-BLN, you will be able to:
  • gain easier access to a pool of job qualified candidates
  • obtain valuable information regarding disability employment issues and opportunities
  • network and share information with other employers
  • share what you have learned with other employers
  • contribute to and learn human resource practices
  • community resources for recruitment, training and more
  • 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)