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Review of Community College-Employer Partnerships and Initiatives: Expanding Opportunities for Job Seekers with Disabilities

Learn how partnerships between community colleges and employers can help expand job opportunities for people with disabilities.

This report reviews federal, state and local efforts to support community college partnerships with employers and how they might help expand employment opportunities for people with disabilities. There is a growing recognition of the vital importance of ensuring that community college training and education reflects the needs of employers in ways that enable students and job seekers to connect with and keep jobs. This report explores whether people with disabilities have been included in existing community college-employer partnership efforts and whether these types of partnerships can be expanded to better support employment of people with disabilities in the future.