by Grady Chambers | Feb 27, 2024 | Employer Focused, General, News
At CIS, we aim to empower people with disabilities through individual employment opportunities that foster self-sustainability for our participants. We want our participants to see the value they bring to the business they work for, and help them live a life of...
by Grady Chambers | Jan 19, 2024 | Employer Focused, General, News, Staff Spotlights
Recently, our Director of Operations, Kelly Carrol, and Director of Employment Services, Melissa Good, had the fantastic opportunity to attend the 2024 Everyday Lives Conference in Hershey, PA! The Everyday Lives Conference is a training conference hosted by the...
by Grady Chambers | Oct 23, 2023 | Employer Focused, NDEAM, Participant Stories
National Disability Employment Awareness Month is in its final stretch, and we’re encouraging you to hit that like button to cheer on Domere and his excellent employer, Broad and Brew. Domere is coming up on two years in his job at the local Philly favorite for bites...
by Grady Chambers | Oct 6, 2023 | Employer Focused, NDEAM, News, Participant Stories
Success for job-seekers with disabilities in fully integrated employment settings is not just possible, it’s the norm. Nowhere is that better exemplified than at Cintas. The job placements we’ve made there—and the supportive, empowering work environment...
by Grady Chambers | Sep 28, 2023 | Employer Focused, General, News, Participant Stories
2023 annual Points of Transformation Awards hosted by DBHIDS We had a blast last week at an important annual event—the 2023 Points of Transformation Awards hosted by Philadelphia’s Department of Behavioral Health and...
by Grady Chambers | Aug 28, 2023 | Employer Focused, General, News, Staff Spotlights
CIS is always committed to helping people with disabilities find meaningful employment in a diverse range of businesses and industries including St. Christopher’s Hospital where we’re helping CIS participants connect with sustaining jobs. Our own Kimberli...
by Grady Chambers | Jul 28, 2023 | Employer Focused, General, News, Participant Stories, Participant Stories - 2023
If you have been following our page, you may recognize the infamous Kentu, a great employee and a staple of the Weavers Way community for 13 years. Kentu started working there in 2010, and is responsible for stocking shelves and keeping the store neat for customers,...
by Grady Chambers | Jan 4, 2022 | Employer Focused, News
There are so many good things happening at Game on State, Media’s brand new arcade, that you’ll want to explain it all in one breath (it’s hard to do, we’ve tried!). It’s an arcade, but it’s also a candy store. It’s old school—they’re renowned among gamers for...
by Grady Chambers | Oct 19, 2021 | Employer Focused, News, Participant Stories, Participant Stories - 2021
An unsung hero of the pandemic at CIS is our Benefits Team, who sprang into action when hundreds of participants were laid off with little to no notice when COVID hit. Since March 2020, they’ve done outstanding work connecting CIS participants with recovery resources,...
by Grady Chambers | Oct 11, 2021 | Employer Focused, News, Participant Stories, Participant Stories - 2021
As we spend NDEAM honoring the role of people with disabilities to the economic recovery, we also want to bring attention to the communities that sustained people throughout the pandemic. One of them blossomed right here in Philadelphia, through Drexel University’s...
by Grady Chambers | Mar 22, 2021 | Employer Focused, General
Cowboy up, everyone! We couldn’t be more excited to announce that CIS participant “George the Leather Man” has a fresh new website and brand, and to share this inside look at George at work in his studio. George is a self-taught artisan born in Amish country near...
