Why it matters:

Employers are struggling to find qualified employees with the overall global talent shortage.

• According to Accenture,
  • There are 15.1 million people of working age living with disabilities in the U.S.
  • Companies that embrace disability inclusion gain access to a new talent pool of more than 10.7 million people
  • While persons with disabilities are even more aspirational than their peers, they are 1.6x (60%) more likely to feel excluded in the workplace.”

Disability Inclusion Training

Disability inclusion trainings educate communities and businesses on how to create radically inclusive environments in partnership with people with disabilities. Each training is interactive and centers the voices and experiences of people with disabilities to educate attendees first-hand on the role they can take in advancing disability inclusion.

Disability inclusion trainings are facilitated by a Bright Star MKE staff member, are 1 to 2 hours in length, and can be in-person or virtual. Trainings include voices of people with disabilities to bring knowledge from the page to real-life application. Attendees leave disability inclusion trainings with practical strategies to implement inclusivity in their communities and workplaces.

Training topics include:

• Inclusive Workplaces for People with Disabilities
• Disability 101
• Workplace Accommodations
• Avoiding Ableism and Becoming Allies
• Neurodiversity and Disability
• Contact us to see our full training menu

What We Do

Employment Specialist

Job Developer

Job Coach

Job Development

• Identify and engage local and national partners
• Attract qualified candidates for all of your talent needs
• Create a workforce reflective of your customers
• Enhance your talent and customer brand
• Improve hiring and retention metrics
• Encourage self-disclosure
• Track and measure activities for compliance reporting

Navigation

At Bright Star MKE, we know the disability services system is complex and often difficult to understand. Through Navigation, we help people with disabilities break down barriers to the resources and services they want and need. We work through the complexities of benefits, waiver funding, and self-directing care with a goal of making disability services more accessible and inclusive of all people.

Navigation is delivered in culturally specific ways and is informed by knowledge we gain as we listen to people with disabilities and the feedback we receive as we educate our communities. We offer complimentary 30-minute sessions to people with disabilities and their care teams to discover what life they want to live and how we can leverage our expertise to get them there.

Disability Statewide Numbers

In 2017, the overall percentage (prevalence rate) of people with a disability of all ages in WI was 11.8 percent. In other words, in 2017, 676,100 of the 5,727,100 individuals of all ages in WI reported one or more disabilities.