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May 29, 2009: Department of Justice seeks to hire people with disabilities

Attorney General, Eric Holder, head of the U.S. Department of Justice, has issued a Department-wide call to hire and promote persons with targeted disabilities (i.e., those with physical, psychiatric, and intellectual disabilities) to be hired to fill positions for which they qualify within the D.O.J. We advise you to print and retain this memo (PDF, 45k) for your records and to share this important document with everyone in your respective networks who wishes to seek employment in the department. Job-seekers may include a copy of this memo in their applications as a reminder to hiring authorities of the call to action issued by the Attorney General.

April 8, 2009: ICDR Seeks Your Recommendations on Emerging Disability Research Topics

This year for the first time, the federally mandated Interagency Committee on Disability Research (ICDR) is utilizing an innovative Web-based approach to collect online disability research comments to assist in developing a federal disability and rehabilitation 2010 research agenda. This technology-driven approach gives the public a three-week timeframe from March 27th through April 17th to submit their recommendations. Additionally, registered participants will be invited to review all comments submitted and vote on their top 10 concerns in each topic area during the one-week period from April 22nd through April 29th. Public comments from stakeholders are the focal point of the disability research recommendations in the ICDR Annual Report to the President and Congress. For more information, please review the attached press release and visit www.icdr.us/stakeholders.

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