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Inclusive Advancement: Applicable Laws & Regulations
Learn about federal laws and regulations that impact advancement activities.
Performance Management
Feedback plays a vital role in helping all employees, including those with disabilities, advance in their careers.
Professional Development
Assess your professional development activities and paths to ensure they are accessible to employees with disabilities.
Accommodations and Advancement
Learn about reasonable accommodations and how they can help employees advance in their careers.
Advancement Strategies for Specific Sectors and Industries
Understand special considerations certain employers have related to advancement of people with disabilities.
Advancement in Action: Case Studies
Read about companies’ efforts to ensure their advancement and professional development opportunities are inclusive.
Self-Paced Trainings: Strategies for Disability Inclusion
Explore EARN's training courses on disability inclusion in the workplace.
Federal Government Employment
Learn about strategies for including people with disabilities in federal employment.
EO 14035 Resources
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) in the Federal Workforce Info Center
Major Components of the Government-wide Strategic Plan to Advance DEIA in the Federal Workplace
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) in the Federal Workforce Info Center
Major Components of EO 14035
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) in the Federal Workforce Info Center
EO 14035 Info Center
Learn more about Executive Order (EO) 14035: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) in the Federal Government, and find tools to help your agency implement the EO's requirements.
Section 503 Best Practices for Federal Contractors
Learn about strategies to help federal contractors meet their obligations under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and recruit, hire, advance, and retain workers with disabilities.
Inclusion@Work: A Framework for Building a Disability-Inclusive Organization
Explore strategies for creating disability-inclusive workplace cultures and meeting your organization's diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) goals.
Employer Profiles
Comcast: Broadcasting the Benefits of Disability Inclusion
Employer Case Study: Learn about Comcast's disability inclusion efforts.
Talent Case Study: Dr. Julie Meade: Writing Her Own Story
Learn about the career path of a scientific writer with multiple disabilities.
Talent Case Study: LeAndre Yarrell: Mentoring Leads to Opportunities for Advancement for a Combat Injured Veteran
Learn how a leading corporation leveraged a federal internship program to recruit top talent, including a U.S. Army veteran.
Events
Digital Accessibility: Driving Disability Inclusion in the Workplace
This webinar explores technological challenges that can impact job candidates and employees with disabilities and steps employers can take to evaluate and enhance their communication systems and training platforms to create workplaces where everyone has the tools needed for success.
Disability-Inclusive Workplace Culture: Building it to Last
This webinar explores how leading companies build and sustain disability-inclusive cultures.
Retaining Valued Employees with Disabilities: The Importance of Performance Coaching and Management
Learn about effective strategies people managers can use to support and empower their employees with disabilities when engaging in coaching and performance dialogues.
Publications
Professional Development and Advancement of Employees with Disabilities
The research brief explores effective strategies for retaining and advancing employees with disabilities.
Workplace Mentoring Playbook
Offers strategies, tools and activities for employers and employees interested in establishing mentoring relationships.
Planning an Accessible Meeting or Event
This checklist outlines steps to take to ensure the accessibility of online or in-person meetings or events.
Planning an Accessible Training
This checklist helps organizations plan trainings that are accessible for employees with disabilities.
Covid-19 and Training and Advancing Employees with Disabilities: Findings from a Focus Group of NILG Members
Learn about issues related to training and advancement of people with disabilities during the pandemic.
Covid-19 and Performance Management of Employees with Disabilities: Findings from a Focus Group of NILG Members
Learn about issues related to performance management and people with disabilities during the pandemic.
Retaining Valued Employees with Disabilities: The Importance of Performance Coaching and Management (Learning Guide)
Learn about effective strategies to ensure you are engaging employees with disabilities in meaningful dialogues about workplace performance.