When employers recognize the value that able workers with disabilities bring to the workplace, everyone prospers. Whether hired for a professional, technical, administrative or advocacy-related role, the bottom line is that employing able people with disabilities makes good business sense.

Employer Guide
Offering hiring tips, tax incentives, and disability etiquette, the Employer Guide is an essential tool for human resources professionals, employers, and trainers.  (download PDF)

The Employer Guide Resources supplements the guide with references for recruiting, hiring, and retaining workers with disabilities.  (download PDF)

There are significant financial incentives available for hiring professionals with disabilities including Work Opportunity Tax Credits, On-the-Job Training Programs, the Small Business Tax Credit, and an Architectural/Transportation Tax Deduction.

New Hampshire Let's Work Together

New Hampshire thinks beyond the label and is partnering with this national organization promoting the hiring of workers with disabilities.

New Hampshire employers recognize the value that able workers with disabilities bring to the workplace, everyone prospers. Whether hired for a professional, technical, administrative or advocacy-related role, the bottom line is that employing able people with disabilities makes good business sense. Learn more

Think Beyond the Label (TBTL) is a national campaign that is committed to making the business case for employing people with disabilities. Our goal is simple: to raise awareness that hiring people with disabilities makes good business sense. Learn more

MCST provides outreach, marketing and education tools to employers that promote a diverse workforce and increase opportunities for able workers with disabilities.  Business to business partnerships, and partnerships with agencies and educators, create a network of employer support through sharing experiences, mentorship, and tools for success.

Through workforce development, we educate employers within the community as to the most untapped, diversified, and highly marketable Individuals in our state—the qualified individual with disabilities. The connections they make have life changing results, for everyone.

Create Approved Work-Based Learning Experiences
Work-based learning is a broad term that covers a variety of structured career exploration and workplace skill-building experiences students can have on-site at a workplace. The experiences can range from a simple tour to a months-long internship with regular hours and responsibilities.

It’s important to set up work-based learning experiences so that they are approved by the NH Department of Labor to safeguard the school, workplace, and student. Well-structured work-based learning experiences have benefits for all involved. Examples of forms and letters from New Hampshire schools, as well as an overview of child labor laws and a set of sample career objectives, are included as appendices. (download PDF)

Build Partnerships for Career Exploration
Using Job Shadows to Explore the World of Work -Such an experience is called a job shadow. It is a one-time experience, during which one student partners with one host and learns about a job by observing and asking questions while the host carries out normal workday activities.  
Large organizations lend themselves to diverse exploration for students.  Examples are residential colleges, assisted-living facilities, hospitals, airports, boarding schools, and large companies that maintain their own facilities and offer their employees such on-site benefits as childcare, wellness programs, and extended dining hours. (download PDF)