Participants of Didlake’s Opal Day Support Program connect with local senior citizens by volunteering at Mintbrook Senior Apartments, a 55+ community in Bealeton. Activities vary each visit, but often include bingo, arts and crafts, and birthday and holiday celebrations. Day Support participants and senior residents worked together weekly during the holiday season to make ornaments […]
Didlake COO Featured on ISSA’s “Straight Talk” Webcast
Last week, ISSA’s “Straight Talk,” featured a panelist of nonprofit leaders, including Didlake COO Joe Diaz, to talk about how organizations employing people with disabilities can help solve the worker shortage. Other panelists included Richard Sebastian, President and CEO of the Kennedy Center, and Jimmy Vickers III, Senior Operations Executive of Global Connections to Employment. […]
Celebrating Quality Professionals During World Quality Month
November is World Quality Month, a time when quality professionals across industries and around the globe come together to celebrate each other. It is also an opportune time to celebrate the dedication and hard work of quality professionals and the impact of quality initiatives on organizational success. World Quality Month is an annual observance led […]
Pam Moody Dedicates Lifetime of Service to People with Disabilities
Pamela Moody, Ed.D, has dedicated a lifetime of service to people with disabilities, including some 30 years as a member of Didlake’s Board of Directors. “I am a longtime supporter of Didlake. I remember when we opened the first building that was just torn down. I have been involved with people with disabilities my whole […]
Reskilling & Upskilling: Finding your Way to a Secure Future
As we face an uncertain future in our jobs due to the impact of the pandemic, millions of us have adopted a new mantra: Recover, Adapt, Advance. The effects of the disruption are deep, forcing unemployment to skyrocket in less skilled jobs, while leaving many white-collar jobs almost untouched. The speed of change has been […]
The Importance of Digitizing Your Old Photographs, Documents, and other Artifacts
Shortly after the launch of Artifcts, I was introduced to Steven Fuhrman, Business Manager of Didlake Imaging. Steven and I immediately connected over a shared mission, helping individuals, families, and corporations preserve pieces of “their” story. Be it family wedding photos from generations gone by to historic maps, documents, and other physical pieces of paper […]
As we close out National Disability Employment Awareness Month 2021
Manassas, VA (10/27/21) – This week marks the end of National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), an annual awareness campaign held each October to educate about disability employment issues and celebrate the contributions of people with disabilities to the workforce. NDEAM activities don’t have to end in October, however. NDEAM also offers an opportunity to launch year-round […]
Prince William County Proclaims October 2021 Disability Employment Awareness Month
Persons with disabilities remain far more likely to be unemployed, underemployed, or in poverty than their peers, despite the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act over thirty years ago. This recent proclamation from the Prince William Board of County Supervisors affirms that the county believes individuals with disabilities deserve the right to live independently, […]
City of Manassas Proclamation for NDEAM
The Manassas City Council and Manassas Mayor Michelle Davis-Younger recently proclaimed October as Disability Employment Awareness Month. Thank you to the City of Manassas for commemorating National Disability Employment Awareness Month and for underscoring the importance of inclusion and diversity in our workforce. PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, in 1998, Congress declared the month of October as National Disability […]
Naval Station Oceana program eases path from school to work for youth with disabilities
It was a small, impromptu test — teacher Trenton Gabriel turned bottles of cleaning products back to front on some below-eye level shelves at the Navy Exchange mini-mart, to see what intern Markus Gray would do. Gray, a recent graduate of Landstown High School, had only recently started with Naval Air Station Oceana’s new Project […]
