From the EEOC (3.9.11):
Notice of March 15th EEOC Public Meeting on Employment of People with Mental Disabilities
On March 15th, 1-4 pm, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will hold a public Commission meeting on the employment of people with mental disabilities. The focus of the meeting will be employment of people with intellectual disabilities and employment of people with psychiatric disabilities.
The meeting will explore barriers that have kept people with intellectual disabilities and people with psychiatric disabilities from getting and keeping jobs, and how those barriers can be successfully overcome. It will also discuss how Olmstead enforcement dovetails with the EEOC's role of ensuring that people with disabilities can participate in their communities by getting and maintaining employment.
Speakers will include:
- Ruby Moore, Director of the Georgia P&A
- Sam Bagenstos, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, DOJ Civil Rights Division
- Bill Kiernan, Director, Institute for Community Inclusion
- Gary Bond, Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center
- Sharon Lewis, Commissioner of Administration on Developmental Disabilities
The meeting will take place at EEOC Headquarters, 131 M Street NE (NY Ave metro, M Street exit).
CART and ASL will be provided.
A web archive of the meeting will be available afterward.
Please contact Jennifer Mathis, jennifer.mathis@eeoc.gov, with any questions.
The stigma and discrimination keeps on coming. Why does being labeled and disabled by organized psychiatry mean people have a "mental disability"?
Posted by: geeorge ebert | March 10, 2011 at 04:15 PM