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Valley United Way director urges return of BRS internship placements to hire people with disabilities
Summary
Carlene Williams, director of operations for Valley United Way, told a community meeting she wants to revive a pre-COVID partnership with BRS to place interns with disabilities in nonprofit jobs, calling the arrangement a low-cost way to evaluate and hire qualified candidates.
Carlene Williams, director of operations for Valley United Way, urged meeting participants to reinstate a pre-COVID practice of placing interns from BRS with local nonprofits to give people with disabilities on-the-job experience and help employers find candidates.
Williams said she has worked at Valley United Way since 2017 and was asked early in her tenure to supervise interns from…
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