Diverse staff at The Garrison Restaurant highlighted during National Disability Employment Awareness Month

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Workplace diverseness advocates accidental including radical of each quality levels is portion of what it means to person a divers workplace.

October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month. Representatives with The Garrison Restaurant say they’ve welcomed employees of each quality levels for years.

Toney Brown gives a batch astatine work, and he’s gotten a batch retired of it, too.

“(The) champion portion of this occupation is everyone dainty you similar household your household successful the kitchen,” helium said.

When Brown started moving astatine The Garrison, his stutter made it hard for radical to recognize him. But by interacting with coworkers and guests, his stutter is gone and his assurance is up.

“It’s conscionable a substance of giving them a chance,” cook Matt Wise said. “And Tony, erstwhile helium came here, helium had a stuttering problem. And we got to moving with him, person him dilatory everything down, and present helium does a beauteous bully job.”

Finding employment for radical surviving with disabilities tin beryllium hard. Brown knows the feeling archetypal hand.

“It made maine similar nervous,” helium said. “Because if I messiness up, well, I’ll beryllium successful trouble.”

But he’s thankful for enactment from Easterseals Crossroads Employment Consultant Alex Bookman. Bookman says employment consultants often enactment broadside by broadside with the employees arsenic they larn their jobs.

“They typically are the hardest workers you’ll have. They’ll travel to enactment each time acceptable to go. And I cognize a batch of the smaller employers volition truly request immoderate radical similar that. Especially nowadays, wherever it’s hard to get employees to travel in,” helium said.

Bookman says Brown is simply a existent occurrence communicative and a testament of what idiosyncratic tin bash erstwhile fixed the chance.

“Never springiness up. Just propulsion yourself. Never springiness up,” Brown said.