Level Up: Employment Skills Simulation Lab

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As the 2023 National Disability Employment Awareness Month comes to a close, we want to share with you some previous study findings that have informed our current projects aimed at advancing and increasing .

Image Description: A white background with a black and white image of a feminine person working on their laptop in their kitchen. A blue banner with the Lab's logo to the left and the words 'Virtual Interview Training' in white and 'Primary Trial Findings' in yellow to the right. Below the banner, the words 'What Providers Thought' in black and a paragraph below that also in black with the words 'feasible & highly acceptable' in yellow text with a dark blue outline. Underneath the paragraph is a yellow banner with dark blue text with links for the findings. Two blue boxes overlap the photo on the right of the page with a bar graph in a light blue box on the left and a dark blue box with white and yellow alternating text to the right of it. Below them, two similar boxes in reversed order with a doughnut chart instead of a bar graph.

October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month ( ), and this year marks the 50th anniversary for the Federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The Federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Rehab Act) is “the first federal legislation to address access and equity for people with disabilities” (U.S. Department of Labor, https://bit.ly/RehabAct2023). This year's theme of 'Advancing Access and Equity' echo's our mission & ongoing work. To learn more go to https://bit.ly/NDEAMtheme.

Image Description: A dark blue background with a yellow border on the bottom and the words, ‘National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM)’, written in white. Below that are the words, ‘October 2023’, also written in white with two yellow, horizontal lines on each side. Written below that in quotations are the words “Advancing Access and Equity” in yellow. To the right of the words is a graphic in a yellow frame and dark blue background of six humans from various backgrounds. Below the graphic is the Level up lab’s logo. The logo includes the University of Michigan's yellow ‘M’ logo on the left with the words ‘School of Social Work, Level up Lab, University of Michigan’ arranged on top of one another in three rows written in white to the right of the ‘M’. A vertical line separates the 'M' & words.