Recruiting and Retaining
Employees With Diverse Abilities
All employers can build strategies for hiring workers with a range of abilities and create workplaces where all feel supported and welcome. Use these tools and resources to help build a disability inclusion plan for your organization.

Overview
Guides
- Your Guide to Disability Inclusion in the Workplace
- Accessability.com
- Disability Discrimination
- Inclusive Internship Programs: A How-to Guide for Employers
- Iowa Employment- 1st Guidebook
Local Resources
- Goodwill Industries of Northeast Iowa
- Iowa Vocational Rehabilitation Services
- Northeast Iowa Community College
- Hills & Dales
- Area Residential Care
- Dubuque County Mental Health and Disability Services
- Mental Health/ Disability Services of the East Central Region
- Iowa Department of Human Services
Data
Articles
Statistics
- Persons with a Disability: Labor Force Characteristics — 2021
- Examining Disability Statistics in the Workforce
Training and Actionable Steps
Program Examples
- REDI: Retail Employees with Disabilities Program Guide
- Walgreens: Disability Inclusion
- Dubuque County Disabilities Council
Program Support
Actionable Steps
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