MONROE CITY, Mo. (KHQA) — Earlier this year, Missouri Governor Mike Parson signed House Bill 971 into law.
It would make Missouri an employment first state, giving clear options of work to people with disabilities who are eligible to work in the state.
The bill requires that support agencies collaborate and promote opportunities for competitive integrated employment.
Learning Opportunities Quality Works, an organization with facilities all over northeast Missouri, directly helps people with disabilities through programs.
The organization's transition coordinator says that this is a great bill for everybody in Missouri.
"We believe that anyone who wants to work can have that right to work, and should be making at least minimum wage like everybody else."
Kendra Adams, the community specialist supervisor, shares what the organization does to further careers within Northeast Missouri.
"We help people kind of develop what their interests are, what their abilities are, maybe what support needs they might have in an employment setting. And then from that we go forth and help them connect to resources within the community to help them find employment," Adams said.
The transitions program, which is done by the organization, works directly with local schools in northeast Missouri to let their students with disabilities get the experience they need for whatever they would like to do after school.
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