Regional Business Initiatives
Let VESID find the right person for your job opening! Using VESID can save your business money in the hiring/training process through our popular financial incentive programs.
Contact your Regional Marketing Representatives for employers and service providers.
Learn more about the specific services VESID can provide employers.
The Buffalo Office
Last year over 1000 WNY employers benefited form hiring one or more individuals with disabilities through VESID Buffalo. Among the local companies who have hired workers with disabilities are:
- Wegmans Food Markets, Inc.
- Carrols Corporation
- Lord and Taylor
- Remarketing Services of America
- Sheraton Four Points Hotel
- Monro Muffler Brake
- Delaware North Companies, Inc.
- Client Logic
- Tops Markets, Inc.
- Medsource Technologies
- Walden Galleria
- McDonalds Corporation
- Client Logic
So why not join these companies and let VESID find the right person for your job opening!
Collaborative Partnerships
The Buffalo VESID Office also serves the employer community through participation in these Collaborative Partnerships.
Community Employment Offices
There are two Community Employment Offices (CEO) in WNY. There is one at the Walden Galleria in Cheektowaga and another at the Summit Park Mall in Niagara Falls. Together these programs coordinate a variety of services for businesses that are looking for quality workers. Each provides a network of shared job leads in Erie and Niagara Counties as well as providing individual job seeking and job development services for persons with disabilities referred through member agencies including VESID. For more information about these CEO offices go to www.wnyceo.com
WNY Employment Consortium
This is an organization made up of 45 public and private not-for-profit agencies, schools, business, and individuals who are interested in promoting employment opportunities for persons with disabilities in WNY. The Consortium provides community education and instruction about the advantages of hiring persons with disabilities. It provides VESID-approved Job Coach and Job Developer training courses. Each October the Consortium honors several area employers with recognition for hiring persons with disabilities at an Employer of the Year event in conjunction with National Disability Employment Awareness Month.
Workforce Investment Boards (WIB)
VESID BUFFALO serves as a member of WIB's in eight counties of WNY including Erie, Niagara, Cattaraugus, Chatauqua, Alleghany, GLOW (Genesee, Livingston, Orleans, Wyoming). We are also a [articipating agency in "One Stop" Centers throughout the region.