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SVDEAC
History/Purpose
Committee
Awards/Nominations
Award Winners
Donations
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The Shenandoah Valley
Disability Employment Awareness Committee (SVDEAC) 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 service area includes: Cities of Buena Vista, Harrisonburg, Lexington,
Staunton, Waynesboro, Lexington and the Counties of Augusta, Bath, Highland,
Rockbridge and Rockingham.
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 SVDEAC 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.
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