Baltimore Employment Roundtable

Meeting Notes
October 23, 2003
8:30 a.m.

Prepared by Kevin Griffin Moreno

Present: Regina Bellina, Mayor’s Office of Employment Development; Marlon Brandon, Work First; Emily Burtt, Lutheran Social Services; Jack Carey, CCC Online; Hugh Coyle, Catholic Charities; June Dashell, Genesis Group; William Fields, MOED; Juli Garcia, Work First; Pat Glinka, Caroline Center; Margaret Kerry, Caroline Center; Gloria Knop, Baltimore City DSS; Carolyn Ladeji, DORS/WTC; Steven Mendoza, Social Solutions, Inc.; Kevin Griffin Moreno, JOTF; Sara Muempfer, MD Works; Leslie Sanders, MOED/Employ Baltimore; Laverne Taylor, MD Dept. of Labor, Licensing, & Regulation.

The Baltimore Employment Roundtable co-hosted a presentation on Workplace Accommodations for Disabled Employees on October 23. Our guest speaker was Kathleen Desmond Porter, Training and Organization Development Director at the ADA & IT Information Center in Rockville, Maryland. Ms. Porter spoke about employers' role in providing reasonable accommodations for disabled workers under the Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA).

This presentation was organized in partnership with the Employment Committee of the Mayor's Commission on Disabilities, and took place in the Charles Benton Municipal Building.

Ms. Porter provided historical background of the ADA, and addressed several of the common misconceptions that employers and service providers hold regarding workplace accommodations. She also outlined how “disability” is defined under the federal legislation, and offered a variety of resources for businesses and providers who work with disabled job seekers.

For more information, please refer to the PowerPoint slideshow of Ms. Porter’s presentation, or contact:
Kathleen Desmond Porter
Training and Organization Development Director
ADA & IT Information Center for the Mid-Atlantic Region
451 Hungerford Drive, Suite 607
Rockville, MD 20850
800-949-4232 voice/tty (within region 3)
or 301-217-0124 voice/tty
800-217-0754 FAX
kporter@transcen.org

For more information about the Employment Committee of the Mayor's Commission on Disabilities, contact Regina Bellina, Mayor's Office of Employment Development, at (410) 396-1790.

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