Disability Employment Technical Assistance Center (DETAC) Webinar May 12, 2026 3PM ET REGISTER: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ygusdQc5SmS_PfPvRhSjLg#/registration
Webinar highlights Microsoft’s Supported Employment Program as a proven, replicable model for building partnerships with large employers to advance competitive, integrated employment for people with disabilities.
Supported employment provides personalized, community-based job placement and ongoing, on-the-job coaching for people with significant disabilities. It enables individuals to secure competitive, integrated employment—earning prevailing wages alongside peers without disabilities—rather than in segregated settings.
Speakers from the Washington Initiative for Supported Employment (Wise), Microsoft, and Microsoft’s supplier partners will discuss how they’ve aligned funding streams, addressed benefits concerns through planning, and collaborated with vocational rehabilitation and service providers to scale supported employment hiring across Microsoft’s supplier network over more than a decade.
The session will feature a supported employee and her manager from the Compass Group at Microsoft’s Redmond campus, who will share firsthand perspectives on how effective supports enable meaningful work and career growth. Participants will leave with strategies they can adapt to their own programs and partnerships.
REGISTER: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ygusdQc5SmS_PfPvRhSjLg#/registration
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