Proving them wrong, one shift at a time
Tasha was told she'd face limits because of her disability. Her job at Accenture says otherwise.
“When I was in high school, people told me that there would be limits to what I could accomplish because of my disability. With my job at Accenture, I feel I've already proven them wrong.”
When Tasha was in high school, the advice she got was small. Set modest goals. Don't expect too much. Plan for the limits people thought her disability would impose.
Bridges from School to Work paired her with a Youth Employment Specialist who started somewhere different — with what Tasha was actually good at, what she actually wanted to do, and which employers needed exactly that.
Career exploration came first. Then interview prep. Then the kind of practical, repeated job-readiness coaching that turns nerves into competence. By the time Tasha walked into her first interview at Accenture, she wasn't doing it alone — she had a team behind her who had prepared her, and an employer who had been prepared for her.
She got the job. And then she kept it. Bridges' work doesn't end at the offer letter — Tasha's Specialist stayed involved through onboarding and the critical first months, the period when most disability-related job placements quietly fall apart.
Today Tasha works at Accenture in a role that uses her strengths and pays a real wage. The doors people once said were closed turn out to have been only locked — and Bridges had the key.
Stories like this happen because of partnership.
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