Grantee Information
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Kansas City, Missouri
The Institute for Human Development at the University of Missouri Kansas City is leading this consortium whose work focuses on ensuring career opportunities, including opportunities for urban African American youth with disabilities.
The overall project goal is “to provide a continuum of career opportunities for urban youth with disabilities within the greater Kansas City area through a business led network that creates jobs and markets workforce training and services to prospective businesses.”
Add Us In Kansas City has created a business-led network focused on increasing the capacity of employers, including minority owned businesses, to successfully hire and retain individuals with disabilities. Add Us In Kansas City will 1) identify and create supports needed by employers in their efforts to diversify their workforce to include this population, 2) increase the number and range of employment opportunities available to youth with disabilities, 3) develop a model continuum of career development encompassing these opportunities and supports, and 4) equip youth to successfully participate within this continuum. Urban businesses and urban youth with disabilities will be given special consideration in the development of the Add Us In model. Located in the greater Kansas City area, the program will provide a replication toolkit for nationwide dissemination at the end of year two.
Partners:
Business partners include:
- Greater Kansas City Black Chamber of Commerce
- Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce
- Greater Kansas City Business Leadership Network
- Greater Kansas City Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Youth partners include:
Workforce partners include:
Disability partners include:
Contact:
Derrick Willis, MPA
Research Associate
Institute for Human Development
215 W. Pershing Rd.
Kansas City, MO 64108
(816) 235-6438
willisdk@umkc.edu
