Makenna Johnson’s new favorite job is shredding paper. The 18-year-old Mankato East High School graduate is among five young adults with disabilities getting some unique help transitioning to the next…
Tag: Employment
Mankato agency goes through downsizing
When MRCI, a nonprofit that provides employment for people with disabilities, first acquired a warehouse near the Minnesota State University campus in the late 1970s, up to 400 clients arrived…
Students plan career assistance
Bethel University senior Ben Hernes and his sister Anna Substad, a 2019 Bethel graduate, are preparing to launch a platform to help individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities jump-start their…
Employment program to be scrutinized
Gov. Tim Walz has ordered a review of a troubled state hiring program for people with disabilities. The review, which is to be completed by year’s end, comes after media…
State employment program criticized
A state hiring program designed to reverse Minnesota’s historically low rate of employment of people with disabilities has fallen short of expectations. Claims have been made of mismanagement and lack…
Regional News in Review - May 2011
Minnesota parent attends conference Back in high school, Idil Abdull remembers, she once posed in front of the White House for a photo. It was the only time she was…