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About SVRDEAC
Organization
Awards Program
Award Winners
Minutes
Donations
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The Shenandoah Valley Regional
Disability Employment Awareness Committee (SVRDEA) is a
voluntary group that meets yearly from April to November.
Members include representatives for the Department of
Rehabilitative Services, Virginia Workforce Center, Department
for the Blind and Vision Impaired, Chamber of Commerce,
Community Services Boards, Disability Services Boards, Mental
Health Association, Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind and
local business and/or industry.
The goal of the committee is to enhance the public awareness of
the potential of persons with disabilities. The committee
recognizes those employers who have employed persons with
disabilities and made the necessary accommodations for those
employees to be a part of the mainstream workforce. An employee
with a disability is also recognized each year as the Employee
of the Year. A contest for increasing the awareness of school
age youth about persons with disabilities and their potential is
held each year in the area of art, literary and assistive
technology.
This year the SVRDEA is again soliciting nominations for
employers who have promoted the employment of persons with
disabilities. The criteria to be considered include: willingness
to employ persons with disabilities, willingness to modify work
environment, orientation and training to help sensitize other
co-workers. An award for recognizing an employee with a
disability will also be given. The criteria for this award
include: good work habits, positive adjustment to disability,
productivity and a documented disability. The art, literary and
assistive technology contest will also be held. The entries in
each area will be judged on expression of ideas, attention to
theme, understanding the concept of disability, originality and
creativity. The assistive technology contest must include a
device that addresses the concept of increasing independence for
person with disabilities, and will be judged on the
functionality, durability and cost of the device.
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