Training is the critical element to assist people with disabilities in becoming successfully employed. Computers, softwares, and other program tools are essential. In today’s business world employees must be adept at the use of technology. The program content develops essential technology skills. Skills like keyboarding, using the internet and proper phone etiquette are all basic entry-level skills demanded by employers. Program courses also include competency, social and soft skills for the workplace. Interactive workstations, volunteers and student interns assist in training courses.
A community wishing to improve itself must acknowledge its weaknesses. As in all communities people with disabilities are underrepresented in the workplace. That is true in Knox County. A community is only as good as its weakest part. By strengthening opportunities for people with disabilities, the whole community is strengthened!
KCARC 1972 is a place where people with disabilities and their non-disabled peers and community members go for training, fun, learning, friendship, acceptance, relationship building, vocational preparation, empowerment, outreach to employers and much more.
