Video: AccessAbilities

Ernst & Young is dedicated to creating a supportive environment for people working who have disabilities. It provides a variety of accommodations and sponsors a People Resource Network, AccessAbilities. Ernst & Young has been repeatedly recognized as one of America's most supportive and progressive workplaces for people with disabilities. This four minute video profiles several of the company's employees with disabilities and their reflection on their disabilities, vis-a-vis the work place. The video can be accessed by donwloading this link: http://tiny.cc/larjf.

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Disability Program Navigators: Making Employment Connections for Job Seekers with Disabilities - Portland

This video highlights how the Disability Program Navigators (DPN) facilitated the establishment of an Integrated Resource Team (IRT) within the One-Stop Career Center (Worksource Center, Portland, Oregon) to blend and braid resources around an individual customer with disabilities' employment needs. The IRT brings various partners (private and public, mandated and non-mandated) from a myriad of agencies/organizations (e.g., One Stop Career Center, Vocational Rehabilitation Agency, mental health, developmental disabilities, etc.) across multiple systems to leverage resources, coordinate services/programs, and reduce duplication to better serve the individual customer with a disability and/or multiple employment challenges. The ultimate goal of the IRT is to get the person with a disability a job; not just any job but a quality, non-stereotypical job that provides a living wage, career lattice opportunities, benefits, and reflects the individual’s interests, experience, education/training goals, and desires. This video tells the story of how the IRT approach worked to assist a customer, who is deaf, receive training at his local community college and a paid internship, with the goal of finding a higher paying job.

Promising Practices… Quality employment for disabled veterans

This video highlights how the Disability Program Navigators facilitated the One-Stop Career Center (MontgomeryWorks, Wheaton, Maryland) becoming a universally accessible, welcoming services delivery site, where all people, including people with a range of disabilities and/or other multiple employment challenges can feel welcome, receive integrated, seamless, accessible, and quality services that provide education and career pathways, ultimately resulting in jobs that provide economic self-sufficiency. The video tells the story of on how a disabled veteran, with post-traumatic stress disorder and other disabilities, received services at the One-Stop Career Center that resulted in a job.

Serving People with Disabilities in One-Stop Career Centers U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration (ETA)

Serving People with Disabilities in One-Stop Career Centers U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration (ETA) http://www.doleta.gov/disability/(Scroll down to the bottom of the page) ETA worked with a few projects to produce a short video which portrays success stories showcasing how the One-Stop Career Centers are serving customers with disabilities to obtain meaningful employment opportunities. Some of the footage highlighted Disability Program Navigators and showed how the One-Stop system works successfully with customers, including both persons with disabilities and employers. This video can serve as a training tool and strategy to share with front line staff and other collaborators.