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Speed Networking Creates More Opportunities for Job Seekers with Disabilities
CBLN meets CPLN
Members of the Chicagoland Business Leadership Network (CBLN) met members of the Coordinating Council of the Chicagoland Provider Leadership Network (CPLN) for an afternoon of speed networking held at Maggiano's Little Italy in Chicago, September 23, 2008. CBLN member businesses interested in hiring people with disabilities engaged in a highly interactive fast-paced networking 4 minute sessions with service providers who provide employment placement services with people with disabilities.
This exciting and highly charged luncheon resulted in providers developing a greater understanding of the workforce needs of individual businesses and created linkages with service providers that represented a cross-disability population of job seekers with disabilities. Service provider CPLN Coordinating Council members are now more accessible to the CBLN business members that attended this Speed Networking event.
The original idea for this event came out of Mayor Richard M. Daley's Task Force on the Employment of People with Disabilities (2002-2005). The event was sponsored by the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce - disabilityworks program where the primarily support comes from the IL Dept of Commerce and Economic Opportunity under the leadership of Director Jack Lavin and is part of Illinois' workforce development initiatives. This event supports the disabilityworks mission of increasing employment opportunities for people with disabilities.
