Join us as we kick-off NDEAM 2025!

WHEN?
Thursday, October 2, 2025
10 AM

WHERE?
Arkansas State Capitol – 2nd Floor Rotunda
500 Woodlane St, Little Rock, AR 72201

HOST?
Arkansas Workforce Connections

WHO / WHAT?
Disability employment professionals, citizens, and organizations that serve people with disabilities will gather at the Capitol. A variety of professionals will speak. Exhibitor resource tables will be open to attendees, and a Governor’s proclamation will be read.

CELEBRATING VALUE AND TALENT

The U.S. Department of Labor announced that its Office of Disability Employment Policy has chosen “Celebrating Value and Talent” as the theme for the 80th anniversary of National Disability Employment Awareness Month, which will be observed in October.

About NDEAM: In October 2025, we celebrate the 80th anniversary of National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), an annual recognition of the positive impact of people with disabilities in the American workforce. This yearly event began in 1945 as a weeklong national observance of the contributions of people with physical disabilities. In 1988, Congress designated the commemoration as NDEAM, which then evolved to acknowledge the importance of increasing opportunities for people with disabilities, including those with mental health conditions and other nonobvious disabilities, in the workforce. In 2001, ODEP was created and entrusted to administer NDEAM, including the selection and promotion of its annual theme. NDEAM 2025 will recognize the value and talent American workers with disabilities add to our workplaces and economy and highlight their achievements both past and present. That’s the spirit behind this year’s official theme: “Celebrating Value and Talent.”