Linkages Inc

Programs: Linkages works with over 260 businesses throughout arizona who they help connect to job seekers with disabilities and wounded warriors who are looking for employment. This is done by linking the employers to our over 170 agency partners, our job board, and events throughout southern arizona who help individuals with disabilities and veterans gain employment. The type of employment ranges from entry level jobs where little to no experience is required to more advanced positions that require experience and training/education. 469 individuals with disabilities gained employment with linkages' business partners. That is 23% of the total placements made by our agency partners. Our efforts in connecting jobseekers with disabilities to employers included co-hosting 7 job fairs with over 2,461 jobseekers and 238 employers attending the fairs. To help the agency service providers better understand what employers are looking for, we hosted 10 employment specialist meetings in pima county, 2 in yuma county, 2 in cochise county, and 2 in pinal county. These meetings enable the providers to network with one another and hear directly from an employer or professional development speaker. We also co-hosted 12 workshops throughout southern arizona on resumes, job search, job application, interview skills, and 2nd chance. As a way to advocate and celebrate people with disabilities in the workforce, we hosted our 10th annual building bridges awards luncheon in pima county, which had over 240 guests attend. We also rebuilt and soft-launched our new website and job board in september with increased funtionality for our users, current coding language, secure, and sustainable.

we ended our involvement with the santa cruz jump back to school fair. Our work has us focusing in other parts of southern arizona, so we closed the jump back to school fair account and sent the remaining money to the nogales unified school district, since they take the lead on the event now.