"Excellence" Program Helps People With Disabilities

People with disabilities are an untapped resource for workers facing the nation's unemployment rate is 70 percent.

Men, a nonprofit organization that helps federal agencies to protect the contract that employs people with disabilities through the Javits Wagner O'Day program, aims to change the status quo. The organization has launched a new program, agencies designated to serve as "centers of excellence" as mentors for other agencies to improve the quality of services and products offered by the federal government.

Javits-Wagner-O'Day Program is the largest single employer in the United States for people with disabilities. Often called the JWOD Program provides opportunities for more than 45 000 people who are blind or other serious injury.

Through the JWOD Program. Men manages a network of over 600 nonprofit organizations that employ and train people with disabilities

The program is based on Wagner-O'Day Act, passed in 1938, providing employment opportunities for blind people, allowing them to manufacture mops and brooms to sell to the federal government. In 1971, Congress amended the law for persons with severe disabilities and to agencies providing services and products.

A recent study by Harris Interactive, two-thirds of people with disabilities who want to work, but the lack of opportunities and avoid the problems of accessibility to find a job.

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