New programs help people with disabilities work from home
April 4th, 2008From Gannett News Service in the Ithaca [New York] Journal:
Mainstream Living, an Iowa nonprofit, is among a new wave of organizations that train workers with disabilities and match them with work that can be done from their homes.
People with disabilities often struggle with finding and keeping a job. Mainstream Living is one of many groups aiming to change that, through programs that train people with disabilities to work in clerical jobs and paraprofessional jobs working with other people with disabilities.
… Homesourcing, also called homeshoring, combines outsourcing and telecommuting to let people do contract work from their homes rather than sending American call-center jobs overseas. It is increasing at a rate of about 20 percent per year, according to IDC, a global market research company.


