The Inclusion Network - Working To Build A More Inclusive World by engaging people with disabilities in all our daily activities, at school, at work, at home and in the community.

The Inclusion Network

Consulting Services Overview

Including people with disabilities is good business

Why invest in inclusion?

People with disabilities control $175 billion in discretionary spending. They are the country's largest minority group - 20% of all Americans. 29% of all U.S. families include a member with a disability.

Our aging population means the number of people with disabilities is growing - 50% of Americans over 65 have a disability.

People with disabilities are an important employment resource -- a highly educated, newly enabled pool of potential employees.

Recent breakthroughs in education, assistive technology, and transportation have added many people with disabilities to the work force - and 3 of 4 are high school grads.
Employees with disabilities are highly motivated and productive.
97% have above average safety records.
90% deliver above average job performance.
86% have above average attendance.
Every $1 employers spend in disability-related accommodations saves $34 in Worker's Compensation, insurance and training costs.

Additional incentives make it easier than ever to hire and market to people with disabilities.

Work Opportunity Tax Credit - 35% of first $6,000 of wages.
Architectural / Transportation Tax Deduction - up to $15,000 per year.
Small Business Tax Credit - 50% credit for expenditures between $250 and $10,250.

The Inclusion Network can help your organization reach this growing market and work force

We are a unique resource available to corporations and other organizations who want to reach and include people with disabilities.

Quality Assurance

Inclusion Review - a comprehensive analysis of issues related to inclusion.
Construction and Renovation - consultation with architects and designers to assure user friendliness.
Consumer Feedback - focus groups of people with disabilities, retail site evaluations, surveys.

Technical Assistance

Event Accessibility Planning - preparing and locating inclusion-related resources.
Work-force consultation - including recruitment, accommodations, and disability management programs.
Resource Identification - determining what is best and most cost effective.

Employee Development

Employee Relations - how to create and promote a work environment where diverse people work well together.
Customer Relations - marketing to customers and clients with disabilities.
Individualized Problem Solving.

"The disabled" are the one minority group
that any of us might join at any time.

A proven record of success

We have provided training and consultation to a wide variety of organizations. Some recent projects include...

Customer-service strategies, and ADA compliance for a national retailing organization.
A comprehensive Inclusion Review of the design for a new National Football League stadium, ensuring that it will be "user friendly" for people with disabilities.
"Mystery shoppers" and a detailed plan to improve the accessibility of a major metropolitan zoo.

How Inclusive is your organization?

How do you market to the 20% of the population who have disabilities?
How do you communicate with customers who are deaf?
Do you know how to host an accessible meeting?
Do you have a "return to work" plan for employees who become disabled?
Have you established a procedure for employees to request job accommodations?
How do you recruit qualified job applicants who have disabilities?
Does your emergency evacuation plan account for those with mobility impairments?

We Believe

Finding qualified, highly motivated employees is good business.
Reducing turnover is good business.
Avoiding costly litigation is good business.
Increasing worker productivity is good business.
Reducing insurance costs is good business.
Improving customer service is good business.

The Inclusion Network would like to thank the following 2007 major sponsors

August A. Rendigs Foundation

The Bahmann Foundation

Cincinnati Bell

The Cincinnati Enquirer

Cinergy Foundation

City of Cincinnati, Department of Community Development and Planning

Macy’s, Inc.

Fifth Third Bank

Greater Cincinnati Foundation and its George and Peggy K. Stricker Fund

Hamilton County Board of MRDD

Jacob G. Schmidlapp Trusts, Fifth Third Bank, Trustee

The Kaplan Foundation

KnowledgeWorks Foundation

MAC Productions, Inc.

The Procter & Gamble Company

Wendling Printing

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Inclusion Network • 312 Walnut Street, Suite 1160 • Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
Phone: 513-345-1330 or 513-345-1336 (TTY) • Fax: 513-345-1337 • E-mail: info@inclusion.org

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