Publications
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For Employers
A Joint Resolution or Executive Order to Encourage States to be Model Employers of People with Disabilities
A resource for states to learn about crafting a Joint Resolution/Executive Order to increase disability inclusion.
Absence and Disability Management Policies
Learn more about employee absenteeism, its causes and how to manage it.
Accessible and Authentic Interviews for Candidates with Disabilities
Learn how to ensure your organization's interview process is accessible and welcoming to candidates with disabilities.
Accessing Talent Through Partnerships: A Playbook
This playbook shares strategies used to develop and launch successful collaborations, to build an inclusive talent pipeline prepared for successful careers at CVS Health.
Adopting an Integrated Telework Policy for Employees With and Without Disabilities
This policy brief provides a framework for adopting an integrated telework policy that is inclusive of all employees, including people with disabilities.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) @ 31: A Review of Emerging Implementation Issues Policy Guide
Learn about current and future ADA issues.
Building a Talent Pipeline
Learn about key steps in building a talent pipeline that includes people with disabilities.
Caregiving and Workplace Flexibility
Workplace flexibility may be particularly beneficial for employees who are family caregivers. Read this issue brief to learn more.
Centralized Accommodation Programs (CAP) in Practice
This checklist provides an overview of the essential components of a centralized accommodation program.
Checklist for Employers: Facilitating the Hiring of People with Disabilities Through the Use of eRecruiting Screening Systems, Including AI
Use this checklist to evaluate your organization's contracts with vendors who provide eRecruiting screening tools.
Checklist: Health Care Plans that Support Mental Health
Use this checklist to assess your organization's health care plan and ensure it is mental health-friendly.
Communicating the Benefits of Self-Identification: Five Steps to Success
Learn the five steps to success to communicate the benefits of self-identification of disability.
Company Website Disability Inclusion Messaging: Observations of Job Seekers with Disabilities
Learn about the outcomes of focus groups with job seekers with disabilities regarding website content and messaging.
Creating a Disability-Inclusive Workplace: The Role of Accommodations (Learning Guide)
Learn about the important role accommodations play in creating inclusive workplaces.
Disability Outreach and Inclusion Messaging: Assessment Checklist for Career Pages
Learn how to ensure your organization's career pages are using messaging and outreach techniques that are inclusive of and welcoming to job candidates with disabilities.
Disability-Inclusive Workplace Culture: Building it to Last (Learning Guide)
Find out how to ensure your organization is inclusive of and welcoming to people with disabilities.
Encouraging Applicants with Disabilities: Job Descriptions and Announcements (Checklist Explainer)
Find tips for writing accessible job announcements and descriptions.
Encouraging Applicants with Disabilities: Job Descriptions and Announcements (Checklist)
Use this tool to review your organization's job descriptions and announcements for accessibility.
Encouraging Employees with Disabilities to Self-Identify
Explore six tips for encouraging self-identification of disability.
Engaging Employees to Measure Success: Innovative Approaches to Encouraging Self-Identification of Disability
This guide explores strategies for encouraging applicants and employees to voluntarily self-identify as having a disability and effective ways to promote self-identification throughout your organization.
Establishing and Maintaining Successful Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
This toolkit offers information on how to start, implement and maintain disability-focused ERGs.
Expanding Your Talent Pool: Disability Inclusion in Advanced Manufacturing (Learning Guide)
Explore the "Seven Steps to Success for Disability Inclusion in Advanced Manufacturing."
Federal Agency Disability Practices and Employee Outcomes
Learn about strategies to increase employment of people with disabilities in federal agencies.
Fostering Disability-Inclusive Workplaces Through Employee Resource Groups
Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are considered an exemplary practice that businesses can leverage to foster a culture of inclusion. This factsheet explores how ERGs can benefit employees and employers alike.
Hiring and Supporting Neurodivergent Workers: Strategies for Success (Learning Guide)
Read the companion piece to EARN's webinar “Hiring and Supporting Neurodivergent Workers: Strategies for Success,” which took place on August 17, 2022, to learn about strategies employers can use to attract, retain and advance neurodivergent workers.
Increasing Disability Inclusion: Centralized Accommodation Programs as a Best Practice
Learn how centralized accommodation programs (CAPs) consolidate accommodation services and funding to improve outcomes for workers with disabilities.
Interns with Disabilities: Maximizing the Internship Experience
Explore four components of a successful internship program for students with disabilities.
Lead the Way: Merck's Inclusive Business Culture
Learn how Merck is supporting employee mental health.
Mental Health and Wellness in the Workplace (Learning Guide)
Find effective strategies for supporting workplace mental health.
Mentally Healthy Workplaces Checklist
This checklist reviews the 4 A's of a mental health-friendly workplace.
Mentoring Student Interns with Disabilities
Find ideas for being a supportive mentor for interns with disabilities.
Mentoring as a Disability Inclusion Strategy
Learn how mentoring programs can help improve employee satisfaction, develop organizational leadership and teach new skills.
Neurodiversity Inclusion: Checklist for Organizational Success
This checklist summarizes some of the lessons learned from successful neurodiversity hiring programs.
Online Recruitment of and Outreach to People with Disabilities: Research-Based Practices
This document summarizes results of a literature review on effective strategies for recruiting people with disabilities.
Organization-Wide Accessibility: Everyone Plays a Part (Learning Guide)
Learn how employees at all levels can participate in creating and sustaining their organization’s accessibility plan.
Partnerships to Build Your Talent Pipeline
Learn about the important role partnerships play in identifying candidates with disabilities and how to collaborate effectively with key community organizations.
Planning Accessible ERG Events
Learn how to make sure events held by your organization's employee resource groups (ERGs) are accessible for all employees.
Planning an Accessible Meeting or Event
This checklist outlines steps to take to ensure the accessibility of online or in-person meetings or events.
Professional Development and Advancement of Employees with Disabilities
The research brief explores effective strategies for retaining and advancing employees with disabilities.
Putting Research into Practice: Online Outreach Strategies for Attracting Job Seekers with Disabilities
This research-to-practice brief explores how targeted online outreach to job candidates with disabilities is an effective talent strategy.
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.
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.
Supporting Digital Accessibility in the Public and Private Sectors
Explore strategies that have been identified by research as promising practices to help ensure digital accessibility in organizations.
Transportation and Workplace Flexibility
Find out how workplace flexibility benefits employees who face barriers getting to and from work.
Workplace Mental Health Literature Review
Learn about strategies that help support employee well-being.
Workplace Mentoring Playbook
Offers strategies, tools and activities for employers and employees interested in establishing mentoring relationships.