Program Overview
The Best Buddies Jobs program represents one of our organization’s four key mission pillars, Integrated Employment. This program secures jobs for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) allowing them to earn an income, pay taxes, and continuously and independently support themselves.
Best Buddies Jobs matches skilled and qualified individuals with IDD with business seeking enthusiastic and dedicated employees. We focus on placements beyond the typical job in which a person with IDD might be placed. Best Buddies focusses on finding work that matches the job seeker’s interests and talents and develops partnerships with employers, assists with the hiring process, and provides ongoing support to the employee and employer.
Delivering Jobs
Holding a job means so much more than collecting a paycheck. It is an opportunity to contribute to your society, to be needed, to give back, to share your skills, and to make friends. Delivering Jobs is a national inclusion campaign designed to create pathways to one million employment and leadership opportunities for people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD) by 2025. This campaign is in partnership with Autism Speaks and Special Olympics through a unifying third-party organization, Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF).
Please visit the Delivering Jobs Website for resources and to pledge your support for this initiative.
Where We Are
An estimated 81% of adults (18+) with intellectual and developmental disabilities do not have a paid job in the community. The Best Buddies Jobs program has participants employed full time who each have the potential to earn a total income upwards of $1 million over 30 years and contribute $250K in taxes back into the economy. See below for a map of where we currently have active placements in the United States:
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