{"id":326212,"date":"2025-10-23T10:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/326212\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T10:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:15:13","slug":"orlando-center-provides-job-training-for-adults-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/326212\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando center provides job training for adults disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014\u00a0For 50 years, the Center for Independent Living in Central Florida (CIL) has worked with children and adults with disabilities, allowing each of their clients to create their own success story.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/cilorlando.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Independent Living in Central Florida (CIL)<\/a> celebrates 50 years\u00a0<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The organization has helped hundreds of adults with disabilities so far this year<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>It provides resources for kids, adults and seniors\u00a0<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>This National Disability Employment Awareness month, Spectrum News met with a CIL graduate who works in downtown Orlando<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Devin Bane has worked at the AC Hotel Orlando Downtown for two years. He received on-the-job training through CIL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey helped us get the experience we needed, and that\u2019s how I got the job after,\u201d said Bane.<\/p>\n<p>Bane says his family is proud of him, but he\u2019s proud of himself, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(It\u2019s) exciting and makes me able to make money and how to use it and what to spend it on, and it\u2019s teaching me how to save on all that, too,\u201d said Bane.<\/p>\n<p>So far this year, CIL staff has helped 650 central Floridians with disabilities. It served 32 people with disabilities through youth transition programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe turnover rate is much less because a lot of folks that have a disability, they\u2019re either very grateful or they\u2019re very adamant about their routine, so they love coming to work, they love doing their job, they love being reliable and they\u2019re a wonderful resource for the working world at large,\u201d said Adrian Gutierrez.<\/p>\n<p>Gutierrez is a transitional employment specialist at CIL. He says Bane has a learning disability, which inspires others. Currently, four young men participate in a separate CIL youth program at the hotel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey might look to him and defer to him for his knowledge,\u201d said Gutierrez. \u201cIt\u2019s really great because they get to see his success and be like, &#8216;Wow, someone like me was able to do this,&#8217; and now they work here, and they work part time, and they get a paycheck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Dossou is the director of housekeeping at AC Hotel Orlando Downtown. He checks in on Bane every shift and says he showed interest in the job right away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s more than capable of doing the task,\u201d said Dossou. \u201cSo yes the transition was a little bit different, but not difficult for him. Why, because he already had the coaching needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He told Spectrum News that Bane is one of the friendliest on staff, doesn\u2019t let his disability get in the way of hard work, and inspires others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have learned a lot from him is that regardless of what life throws at you, how to just get up from it and moving on,\u201d said Dossou.<\/p>\n<p>For information on the Center for Independent Living in Central Florida, <a href=\"https:\/\/cilorlando.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014\u00a0For 50 years, the Center for Independent Living in Central Florida (CIL) has worked with children&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":326213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[31018,21399,7448,64,162523,210,9829,420,50,1036,6063,52,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-326212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-app-health","9":"tag-app-human-interest","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-emma-delamo","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-human-interest","15":"tag-jobs","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-orange-county","18":"tag-orlando","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115422962184223898","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}