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ODEP - Newsletter - September 30, 2011

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ODEP News Brief

September 30, 2011

ODEP Announces Funding for 3 Disability Employment Initiatives

a.. $21 Million in Disability Employment Initiative funding to 7 states

b.. $3.8 Million in continued funding to improve employment

opportunities for people with disabilities

c.. $2.2 Million through the " Add Us In " initiative to improve

employment opportunities for people with disabilities

Free NDEAM Webinar Series Begin October 6

ODEP's Employer Assistance and Resource Network (EARN) will be hosting

four weekly webinars in celebration of National Disability Employment Awareness

Month on Thursdays in October from 2:00-2:30 p.m. EDT.

a.. Register for EARN's NDEAM webinars

Campaign for Disability Employment 'I Can' Public Service Announcement

Airs on Radio and TV

ODEP's Campaign for Disability Employment's award- winning public service

announcement is scheduled for another round of airing on radio and TV. To date,

the PSA has resulted in more than 37,000 national television airing and

514,000,000 TV media impressions.

a.. Read more about the CDE's PSA in the DOL Newsletter

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: Disability Employment Done Right

Kareem Dale, Associate Director, White House Office of Public Engagement &

Special Assistant to the President for Disability Policy writes about the NASA

Goddard Space Flight Center where " they also are setting the bar right here on

Earth for disability hiring and inclusion. "

a.. Read Kareem Dale's blog

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