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		<title>Creating Jobs, and Connections, for Persons with Disabilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the unemployment rate hovering at 9 percent nationwide, generating new employment opportunities continues to be a major focus for all sectors. Health care is no different, and as the largest private employer in the Commonwealth, Partners HealthCare has put an increased emphasis on investing in jobs and careers for our state’s economic health. 
 
That’s why Spaulding Rehabilitation Network (SRN), the rehabilitation provider of Partners HealthCare, teamed up with the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission (MRC) to establish the ‘Working Partners’ program, a first of its kind public/private partnership that gives qualified persons with disabilities the skills and support they need to help them join the work force and improve their overall quality of life. For those living with a disability, finding a job can be especially difficult. Whether newly injured or living with a physical or mental disability  through a lifetime, barriers to employment can seem insurmountable; in fact, the unemployment rate for those with disabilities is more than 50 percent higher than the general population.<!--more-->]]></description>
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