CDO Workforce coordinates and focuses employment, training and education development resources across three counties, providing service to employed people, unemployed people and employers alike. Our goal is to improve the long-term growth and development of the work force.
A child who has a disability and dark skin is more likely to be tied down, handcuffed, and physically restrained.
An adult who has a mental health need and has dark skin is more likely to be a victim of a violent encounter with law enforcement.
And a person who has dark skin and a disability is more likely to be arrested than a person with light skin and a disability, and much more likely to be arrested than someone without a disability.
Otsego Includes acknowledges the countless stories of aggression towards those with dark skin in the disability community.
Disability Rights are Human Rights & Dark Skin is Not a Crime.”
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Check out the New York Forward Business Reopening Lookup Tool: https://www.businessexpress.ny.gov/app/nyforward. This tool will help you determine whether or not your business is eligible to reopen, and the public health and safety standards with which your business must comply.
More Information is available at New York Forward Industry Guidance and Reopening
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**We hope to have similar news for our Oneonta and Norwich offices soon. We will continue to serve you virtually and by phone in these offices until then.
Our goal is to help job seekers not just find a job, but develop and manage a career. That means helping them when they have a job and when they are looking. We also strive to help employers find the workers they need quickly and the resources to improve training, workforce retention and workforce restructuring.
A DRC is a Disability Resource Coordinator, someone who helps individuals with disabilities find employment.
High School Equivalency (HSE/GED) A high school equivalency or GED/HSE is a recognized alternative to a high school diploma.
Work-Based Learning (WBL) provides students and job seekers with real-life work experience that compliments their academic studies. Typically they include job shadowing, mentoring, internships, and apprenticeships.
A Team Helper is anyone who is the lead support person to the job seeker with disabilities along their career journey. It can be a family member, friend, employment counselor, Disability Resource Coordinator (DRC), or case manager.
A stop-gap job is temporary employment until something better or more permanent can be obtained.
Basic needs refers to the goods and services necessary for a minimum standard of living. This includes access to food, safe shelter, clothing, and sanitation. Reliable transportation and education can also be considered a basic need.
A safe space is intended to be free of bias, conflict, criticism, or potentially threatening actions, ideas, or conversations.
Competitive integrated employment (CIE) is work performed by a person with an impairment or health-related disability (health impairment) within an integrated setting. Wages are at least minimum wage or higher and at a rate comparable to non-disabled workers performing the same tasks.
For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education.
