Our Fiscal Year 2012 numbers are in, and we’ve got some excellent news: our number of hours worked by people with disabilities is up 25% from last year! This increase is beyond even our most optimistic projections, and means that our employees and customers are putting an even bigger dent in the problem of the lack of employment for people with disabilities.
Here are some highlights from the stat sheet:
– The total number of hours worked by people with disabilities was 883,354 for Fiscal Year 2012, up by 25% from the previous year.
– Of the 25% increase, 84% of those hours were worked by people with disabilities in the state of Oregon.
– Our Project SEARCH program for people with significant cognitive or developmental disabilities increased its hours worked by 60%, thanks to our partners like OHSU, The Standard, and Providence.
– All told, people with disabilities at DePaul Industries earned $12,642,000 in wages and benefits last year alone.
Those are our numbers, but we’re not selfish — One of the key statistics that we track is our attrition success rate. When one of our employees leaves us to go work for one of our customers or someone else, we consider that a success. We’re constantly working to better track how our former employees are doing, but we know for sure that last year, at least 275 of our employees left DePaul and headed off to another job, and that means 275 more people were able to come in and start work with us. We’re right on track to make even bigger headway in the disability employment arena in the near future.
This is all possible because of our customers—large and small private and public companies who hire our hard-working and dedicated employees to solve a business problem, increase their bottom line, and make their lives (and jobs) a little easier.
Classic win/win situation.
