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Direction Home Aging and Disabilities company history timeline

1981

1981: United Nations commemorates the first International Year of Disabled Persons.

1986

1986: NOD and Harris issue disability “gap surveys,” the field’s first authoritative data source comparing quality of life compared to non-disabled.

1990

1990: Federal government issues regulations mandating wheelchair lifts on public buses.

1990: President George H.W. Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law, enshrining equal access and non-discrimination.

1994

1994: NOD launches its student internship program, Start on Success, to help high school students in underprivileged communities gain paid experience and achieve a foothold in the working world.

1996

1996: Mental Health Parity Act bans health plans from imposing unwarranted dollar limits on mental health benefits.

2001

2001: Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, NOD took the lead with its Emergency Preparedness Initiative to ensure that communities across the country included provisions for people with disabilities in preparedness planning.

2006

2006: With the leadership of the Kessler Foundation, NOD began to expand its work in the employment arena.

2010

2010: Beginning as a pilot program called Bridges to Business, NOD’s successfully developed a model to build more effective links between employers and service organizations that represent jobseekers with disabilities.

2016

2016: NOD launches its suite of Professional Services helping employers meet new targets for disability inclusion and debuts the Leading Disability Employer Seal, a recognition given to the top performing companies on the Employment Tracker.

2017

2017: NOD launches the Campus to Careers program to bring higher education professionals and employers together to develop new methods of recruiting college students with disabilities.

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