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What Can YOU Do to Advance the Employment of People with Disabilities?

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In support of the What Can YOU Do? outreach effort, the Campaign for Disability Employment is pleased to present the Campaign for Disability Employment’s “I Can” public service announcement (PSA). This flagship PSA was produced specifically for the What Can YOU Do? Campaign. It features seven real people – not actors – with hidden and obvious disabilities, demonstrating what they “can do” on the job when given the opportunity. Intended for television broadcast, we would like to see this PSA and its inspiring message distributed as widely as possible. We invite you to share it with others so we can all remember that at work, it’s what people can do that matters.


“I Can” PSA

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* Nearly 50 million Americans have a disability. To learn about employment statistics and people with disabilities, click here.

 


Blake Watson’s "Meet Sue" Wins the What Can YOU Do? Video Contest.

To celebrate the launch of the Campaign for Disability Employment, aspiring filmmakers were challenged to enter the What Can YOU Do? Video Contest and produce their own 60-second video in support of the What Can YOU Do? public education campaign. The national video competition, which attracted more than 130 videos promoting the talent and skills that people with disabilities bring to America’s workplaces and economy, was held in support of the Campaign for Disability Employment’s national effort to increase the employment of people with disabilities.


The Campaign for Disability Employment congratulates Blake on the achievement of being selected as the overall winner of the What Can YOU Do? Video Contest. Blake’s innovative video, “Meet Sue”, reflects the spirit of the Campaign and showcases Blake’s talents and abilities. Blake reminds everyone that people should be judged only by “the content of their character”, as Martin Luther King, Jr. called for decades ago.


The Campaign for Disability Employment thanks Best Buy for sponsoring the prize for the What Can YOU Do? Video Contest! The success of the What Can YOU Do? Video Contest was due in part to Best Buy, the nation’s largest consumer electronics retailer and an employer that includes and values all employees for their talents, ideas and innovative approaches. Showing their support for the What Can YOU Do? endeavor, Best Buy partnered with the Campaign to sponsor a $1500.00 Best Buy gift card which was awarded to Blake Watson during an in-store award event hosted by the Flowood, MS Best Buy store.

We encourage everyone to forward the “Meet Sue” video to as many people as possible and to share the message that at work, it’s what people can do that matters.



"Meet Sue"

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