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Links to employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities

Institute for Community Inclusion - Employment Services
ICI has a wide variety of activities focused on enhancing employment for people with disabilities. Direct services help people with disabilities find and keep a job. ICI staff also provides training and consultation to organizations across the country and internationally. Employment services are supported by ICI's research.

Do-It

  • People with disabilities successfully pursuing academics and careers.
  • Programs to promote the use of electronic and information technology to maximize the independence, productivity, and participation of people with disabilities.
  • Professional development for K-12 educators and post-secondary faculty and administrators.

GLADNET Employment Opportunities
Posting your employment announcement is an effective way to reach qualified candidates on a global basis. Employment offers posted to this page are also distributed via the GLADMAIL to recipients world wide.

Partners for Youth with Disabilities
Partners for Youth with Disabilities, Inc. is a Boston based nonprofit organization that assists young people to reach their full potential for personal development by arranging one-to-one relationships between youth with disabilities and adults with similar disabilities.

Jobs for the Future
Partners with leaders in education, business, government, and communities around the nation to increase opportunities for low-income individuals to move into family-supporting careers and meet the growing economic demand for knowledgeable and skilled workers.

Easter Seals
Easter Seals helps more than a million individuals with disabilities gain greater independence each year. One in every five Americans has a disability, and Easter Seals is there with expert help, hope, and humanity.

Goodwill
Goodwill serves individuals who face a variety of barriers to employment, including physical and/or cognitive disabilities, illiteracy, homelessness, inadequate education, and welfare dependency. Through three program areas, Work and Job Training Programs, Youth Services, and Community Services, Goodwill assists thousands of people each year. The Work and Job Training Programs have a strong on the job training component that is provided through Goodwill's Retail and Recycled Goods Enterprise and other Worksite Enterprises.

Work, Inc.
Nationally recognized as a pioneer in developing community based programs for individuals with disabilities, WORK Inc. is one of Massachusetts' most successful nonprofit providers of rehabilitation services. Founded in 1965, our organization supports over 1,000 consumers daily.

Statewide Employment Services
The Statewide Employment Services (SES) is part of the Vocational Rehabilitation Division of the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission. SES administers programs and provides supports to assist people with severe disabilities who are underserved or unserved to exercise their right to choose, obtain and retain meaningful community based employment with long term supports as needed and be paid in accordance with their skills and abilities.