Employment Connections

Community Connections, Inc. encourages local businesses to open their hiring practices for all kinds of people, including persons with disabilities. By doing so, employers benefit from a wider range of skills and competencies.

We can show a business how easy it is to make a person with developmental disabilities part of its team. Persons with disabilities have a wide ranges of skills and abilities and can excel at many different kinds of work. The key is to make the right match between the person and the work that needs to be done.

Hiring persons with developmental disabilities offers a number of advantages:

• Recruiting employees is no longer a "hit or miss" process.
• Highly skilled employees become more productive when freed from lower-level skilled tasks.
• Job turnover is decreased due to a higher level of employee satisfaction and motivation.
• Productivity and cost effectiveness are increased because of lowered hiring, training and supervisory costs.

• Wal-Mart
• Bank of Colorado
• Fredrick Zink Elliott
• Sky Ute Casino & Museum
• Double Tree Hotel
• Mercy Regional Hospital
• Dunlaps Department Store
• Super 8 Hotel
• Sunshine Gardens
• JC Penney
• FLC
• SW Surgical Associates
• Humane Society Thrift Store
• Volunteers of America
• Shur-Value
• Armed Forces Recruiting Station
• Beads & Beyond
• Gardenswartz
• Ted's Rental
• DMR
• Starbucks Coffee

Employment Connections Program

The Employment Connections Program places trained employees with businesses of every type and size. It also provides job consultants that match and train people for a business where their skills and aptitude make them valuable assets to employers.

The appropriate job placement services supports many skills, including the following:

• Computer Data Entry
• Clerical Work
• Teacher's Aide
• Maintenance/ Custodial Work
• Mail Clerk
• Utility Work
• Food Services and Food Preparation
• Assembly Work
• Lawn and Garden Care
• Animal Caretaking