Indiana Disability History

Title

Mary Lou Melloy - "Find Her a Job"

Subject

Employment

Sheltered Workshops

Description

“We were afraid as parents, and they started talking about doing away with the workshop.” Mary Lou and her husband didn't like the idea of their daughter Cindy getting a job in the community. In the late 1990s, they sent a letter to other parents inviting them to a meeting with the agency executive director to fight closing of the sheltered workshop. The next morning, Mary Lou called the executive director and told him to find her daughter a job. Two weeks later Cindy went to work at a pharmaceutical company in Indianapolis where she worked for the next 20 years. Mary Lou says, “It was the most wonderful opportunity for Cindy." Mary Lou was interviewed in 2017.

Creator

Indiana Disability History Project

Publisher

Center for Health Equity at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community and Indiana Governor's Council for People with Disabilities

Contributor

Mary Lou Melloy - interviewee

Jennie Todd - interviewer

Peggy Holtz - videographer/editor

Rights

Relation

100-mi-01

100-mi

Format

video/mp4

Language

English

Type

Moving Image

Identifier

100-mi-02

Access Rights

Open to all users

Is Part Of

100-mi

Bibliographic Citation

"Mary Lou Melloy - Find Her a Job" YouTube video, 00:02:47, interview excerpt 100-mi-02 by the Indiana Disability History Project, posted by "Indiana Disability History" on August 27, 2020 https://youtu.be/ixF1hKJPlWI

Spatial Coverage

Indiana, Marion County, Indianapolis