EmpowerTech Luncheon to Highlight Labor & Employment Issues For Persons With Disabilities

Non-Profit Agency That Provides Computer Training to Angelenos Living With Disabilities Seeks To Offer Human Resource and MCLE Accreditation to Attendees

Los Angeles -- EmpowerTech, a Los Angeles-based non-profit that provides computer training to bodies with concrete and adorning disabilities will authority a alive bologna on June 23, 2009 from 11:00 a.m.--2:00 p.m. at the Marina Del Rey Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles. Participants will accept an befalling to acquaintance hands-on Assistive Technology demonstrations, and will apprentice about acknowledged and animal assets issues accompanying to the application of individuals with disabilities.

EmpowerTech Executive Director Joan Anderson commented, "Everything we do at EmpowerTech is geared against allowance individuals active with disabilities become added independent, and advancing them to accomplish in the workforce. An important allotment of that mission involves educating abeyant administration and about the absolute appulse our affairs graduates can accept on their companies. By acclamation axiological activity and application issues, we accept we can advice actualize opportunities for our graduates and for all individuals with disabilities."

Labor and application advocate Alfred Klein, who has been called as a SuperLawyer in his acreage back 2004, and is a accomplice in the Los Angeles law close Rodi Pollock Pettker Christian & Pramov, will advance the affairs which will allay some of the misconceptions about activity issues pertaining to the application of individuals with disabilities.

Tickets for the bologna are $50 per being and may be purchased through EmpowerTech by calling (310) 338-1597. EmpowerTech has activated for acceptance for HR and MCLE from the California accompaniment bar.

Founded in 1986 as the "Computer Access Center" by a accumulation of anxious parents and professionals, EmpowerTech today uses avant-garde Assistive Technology to advice bodies with affliction access the abilities and the aplomb to accomplish important accretion tasks that abounding crop for accepted such as accessing and application the Internet and creating and account documents. From programs for blind/low-vision adults to classes for disabled children, EmpowerTech uses accompaniment of the art Assistive Technology to advice alone with disabilities acquaintance the abandon and accomplishment of self-sufficiency.

EmpowerTech is adjourned absolutely through grants and alone donations. To apprentice added about EmpowerTech and to appearance some of its many, abounding success stories, amuse visit: http://www.empowertech.org/success.html.

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EmpowerTech Launches Emergency Fundraising Appeal

Individual $100 Donations Can Save Los Angeles County's Only Assistive Technology Center Serving Persons With Disabilities

Los Angeles, CA -- EmpowerTech, a Los Angeles-based non-profit alignment that provides computer training to bodies with concrete and adorning disabilities, today launched an emergency fundraising drive to avoid off accessible cease after this summer. EmpowerTech needs $100,000 to armamentarium its programs, and will seek $100 donations from 1,000 alone donors.

EmpowerTech is the alone Assistive Technology centermost confined the 1.8 actor humans active with disabilities in Los Angeles County. According to a Public Policy Institute of California study, humans with disabilities accept disproportionately low incomes, are underemployed and accept acceptance to beneath boilerplate resources. As the accompaniment of California threatens account cuts appear affliction aid and programs, the mission and action of EmpowerTech has even greater accent to their lives, education, and development.

Joan Anderson, EmpowerTech Executive Director commented, "For added than 20 years, EmpowerTech has served the association by accouterment the abilities and acceptance to technology that bodies active with disabilities charge to abide independent, advantageous and accomplishing lives. Now we are allurement the association for help. For $100--27 cents a day--an alone donor can advice accumulate this invaluable ability operating in our community. We've all apprehend and heard a lot afresh about companies accounted "too big to fail," but EmpowerTech is artlessly "too important to fail".

Through its T.R.A.D.E, low vision/Blind, pre-school, and Open Access programs, EmpowerTech provides computer training and advantageous technology to anyone who needs it, from blind/low-vision adults to disabled children. For these associates of our community, basal tasks that a lot of humans crop for accepted such as accessing and application the Internet, creating and account documents, or artlessly acquirements and communicating through online and computer-based resources, authority the key to independence, and accomplishing educational and application goals

Anderson stated, "EmpowerTech does not accept accompaniment or federal grants, and the recession has around alone the accumulated and foundation grants that we accept relied aloft to complete our work. If this fundraising address is not successful, we will accept to shut our doors, eliminating social, developmental, employment, and educational opportunities for the acceptance who depend on us."

To apprentice added about EmpowerTech and its success stories, amuse appointment http:www.empowertech.org or alarm (310)-338-1597. To accomplish a defended donation online, amuse visit: https://app.etapestry.com/hosted/EmpowerTech/OnlineDonation.html

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