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Do you have any final recommendations about finding jobs of choice for people with disabilities?
- Talk about potential good employees.
- Do not talk about disabilities.
- Talk about the opportunities that this person needs to get a job.
- Talk about how the individual becomes a taxpayer.

Transcript

Interviewer: John, you have shared some really valuable points with us this morning. In summary, I would ask if you have any final recommendations about finding jobs of choice for people with disabilities?

John Luna: The final recommendations I would give are to stay from the business minded and talk about potential good employees. Do not talk about disabilities, but talk about the opportunities that this person needs to get a job. Talk about the individual becoming a taxpayer. He stops being a tax user. He increases the tax base; he buys clothes and food in the respective community. He is helping himself. What we are doing is providing individuals opportunities to help themselves. We in the CRP world are not providing obstacles or reasons that they cannot do it, but we are providing opportunities of why they can do things. The matter is just to make it happen. Just do it.

Interviewer: Thanks John. I think you have provided us with some real valuable information on how to assist people to become a part of their community.

John Luna: That is what it is all about; they are a part of the community. All they are wanting is opportunity to be a participant and not just a standby.

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