Members of Aramark employee resource group (ERG) Thrive supported people with disabilities throughout October as part of a program of activities marking National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) in the United States.
People with disabilities remain one of the most unemployed and underemployed groups in the United States.
Best Practices Training
Members of Thrive organized a training presentation with help from the Job Accommodation Network to learn technical assistance on how to increase comfort, confidence, and competence through disability awareness.
Topics included effective communications best practices for managing people with different abilities.
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For the second year, about 50 students from Transition Pathways at the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute visited Aramark's Philadelphia headquarters October 17th to learn more about the company's career path opportunities and get to know Aramark leaders and lines of business. (Photos at top and right).
This continuing relationship with the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute, and with Community Integrated Services, has helped Aramark better reach and engage with Philadelphia's neurodiverse community.
Drexel Autism Institute visited Aramark’s Philadelphia headquarters October 17th to learn more about the company’s career path opportunities and get to know Aramark leaders and lines of business. (Photos at top and right).
So far, more than 90 candidates have been hired and more are in the process of being hired throughout the Philadelphia region. Watch a Transition Pathways video from an Aramark hiring event in June 2023.
Drexel Autism Institute, and with Community Integrated Services, has helped Aramark better reach and engage with Philadelphia’s neurodiverse community.
In two hiring events the Philadelphia region this year, 300 candidates from these outreach programs interviewed for jobs at Aramark-managed client locations in the area.
Victor Hartley, Aramark Food Service Director at Northern Maine Community College (NMCC), hosted an immersive culinary experience for participants of the Central Aroostook Association (CAA), which serves people with varying developmental disabilities.
I’m so proud of the great things Thrive continues to do.
Victor Hartley, Aramark Food Service Director at Northern Maine Community College (NMCC), hosted an immersive culinary experience for participants of the Central Aroostook Association (CAA), which serves people with varying developmental disabilities.
The interactive session, held at the NMCC test kitchen on campus in August, caught the attention of a local TV news crew. Watch the coverage on YouTube.
The interactive session, held at the NMCC test kitchen on campus in August, caught the attention of a local TV news crew. Watch the coverage on YouTube.
Thrive partnered again this year with Popcorn for the People, an Aramark supplier that works to create career opportunities for the disabled community—one delicious kernel at a time.
Thrive partnered again this year with Popcorn for the People, an Aramark supplier that works to create career opportunities for the disabled community-one delicious kernel at a time.
Aramark employees also participated again this year in the Eagles Autism Challenge, as well as the Polar Pop/Polar Plunge challenge to raise awareness and funds to benefit the Special Olympics.
Outside the United States, Aramark Chile partnered with Incluyeme and the Inter-American Development Bank’s BID Lab to introduce the Aramark Labor Inclusion Lab, a trailblazing initiative working to boost employment opportunities and inclusion for those with disabilities.
Outside the United States, Aramark Chile partnered with Incluyeme and the Inter-American Development Bank's BID Lab to introduce the Aramark Labor Inclusion Lab, a trailblazing initiative working to boost employment opportunities and inclusion for those with disabilities.
Food and Facilities, and Executive Sponsor of Thrive, says: “I’m so proud of the great things Thrive continues to do.
“In the past year, we increased membership in our ERG by 18 per cent, opened our first international Hub in Chile, and, for the seventh consecutive year, Aramark earned a score of 100 on The Disability Equality Index.”
"In the past year, we increased membership in our ERG by 18 per cent, opened our first international Hub in Chile, and, for the seventh consecutive year, Aramark earned a score of 100 on The Disability Equality Index."
