Bridges to Employment Conference Highlights / Lo mas destacado de la conferencia Bridges to Employment*

4th Annual Bridges to Employment Conference

A summary of the recent Bridges to Employment conference is now available online. A special issue of the newsletter gives a general overview of conference activities and reports on the most popular workshops and roundtables. Go to http://www.proyectovision.net/english/bridges/index.html.

4ta Conferencia Anual Bridges to Employment

Ahora contamos con un boletin electronico que hace enfasis sobre los eventos mas importantes de la conferencia Bridges to Employment. La entrega especial de Bridges ofrece una vision panoramica general de las actividades de la conferencia y tiene informacion sobre los seminarios y mesas redondas mas populares. Visite http://www.proyectovision.net/spanish/bridges/index.html.

Bridges to Employment Conference First Event of Its Kind in Southeast

The Bridges to Employment conference organized by the World Institute on Disability's National Technical Assistance Center, Proyecto Vision attracted more than 150 job seekers, employment experts, employers, policymakers and advocates from around the country to Raleigh on June 1-3. It was the first event in the region that joined the Latino, disability and business communities to help connect Latinos with disabilities to employment...

La conferencia Bridges to Employment, primer evento de su tipo en el sureste

La conferencia Bridges to Employment organizada por el Centro de Asistencia Tecnica Nacional, Proyecto Vision, del Instituto Mundial en Discapacidad, atrajo a Raleigh a mas de 150 personas que buscan trabajo, expertos laborales, empresarios, politicos e intercesores de todo el pais del 1ero al 3 de junio. Fue el primer evento que reunio a las comunidades latina, de la discapacidad y la empresarial en la region para hacer que los latinos con discapacidades se comunicaran con sus posibles contratantes...

Successful Solutions in the Workplace

Most often, the news presents us with the worst in society the murders, the violence, the corruption, who is being sued and for what. They don't often share information on who is doing good. At this year's Building Bridges to Employment Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, however, some major corporations had the chance to do just that share success stories on how they are working to increase employment of Latinos and others with disabilities. Forming partnerships with existing organizations is an important component of their success, said Teresa Belthrop-Hairston, Manager of Employee Initiatives at American Express...

Soluciones de exito en el trabajo

Las noticias generalmente nos muestran lo peor de la sociedad. Son los asesinatos, la violencia, la corrupcion y a quien se enjuicia por que. No se comparte informacion de quien hace bien. A pesar de ello, en la conferencia Building Bridges to Employment en Raleigh, Carolina del Norte, algunas corporaciones tuvieron la oportunidad de hacer solamente eso, compartir historias de exito sobre como se esfuerzan para aumentar el empleo de latinos y de otros con discapacidades. La formacion de asociaciones con organizaciones existentes es un componente importante de su exito, dijo Teresa Belthrop-Hairston, Gerente de Iniciativas Laborales de American Express...

If You Could Travel a Mile in My Shoes

One of the most important activities that takes place at any conference is learning from others who have been down the same road you're traveling. This year's Building Bridges conference provided participants with an opportunity to hear from people who have walked the walka family of a young man with Downs syndrome, a recent high school graduate with a visual impairment, and a man who had an arm amputated in a work accident as a young boy. They came to the Bridges to Employment conference to share their life experiences as Latinos with disabilities themselves or with family members who experienced disability. They came to offer not only stories of the past, and the struggles they had to bear, but to offer a glimpse of the future and of the possibilities attainable...

Si usted pudiese caminar una milla en mis zapato

Una de las actividades mas importantes que se da en cualquier conferencia es aprender de otros que han pasado por lo mismo que usted. La conferencia Building Bridges de este ano le dio a los participantes la oportunidad de oir a gente que ha hecho lo que debe la familia de un joven con sindrome Down, un recien graduado de escuela secundaria con discapacidades visuales y un senor a quien le amputaron un brazo por un accidente de trabajo cuando era nino. Vinieron a la conferencia Bridges to Employment a compartir sus experiencias vividas como latinos con discapacidades o con familiares con discapacidades. Vinieron a ofrecer no solamente sus historias y sus luchas, sino que a dar una vision del futuro y de las posibilidades del futuro...

*From the Proyecto Vision Newsletter
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