There are over 64,000 farms in the state of Wisconsin with 6,400 of those being dairy farms. Farming is important to Wisconsin as it is the flagship of our state. However, 1 in 10 adults in the United states has a disability.
Amy Pechacek with the Department of Workforce Development is dedicated to helping individuals with a disability get a job and keep a job. She shares more on the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and their impact.
The program helps farmers by supplying them with the resources they need for any type of disability. Pechacek explains that the range of disability they are equipped to offer assistance for goes from sight or hearing to orthopedic injury and paralyzed to mental health crisis.
“We want to be in connection with those in need so that they see what we have to offer,” says Pechacek. “We are confident we can find some type of technology that can help that will allow them to still be successful and profitable in their operations.”
Adaptive technology that has evolved to help with this includes subsidized aids where the decision pays for lifts that allows paraplegics to get into large pieces of equipment, retrofitted for ease of access with hand controls and much more.
Pechacek adds, “The sky’s the limit. Those in need can reach out to one of the 22 locations of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation through the following ways:
- Go to their website, https://dwd.wisconsin.gov/dvr/;
- Email them at [email protected];
- Or call them at 800-442-3477.
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