Green Jobs Employment Opportunities-Resources
The Employment and Training Administration (DOL/ETA) has a Green Jobs Initiative (http://www.doleta.gov/brg/GreenJobs/) to foster a greener economy and a green-educated workforce. ETA is positioned to provide labor market intelligence and work with core-constituencies of labor, industry, and education to identify relevant Green Jobs skills and develop competency models leading to meaningful career ladders. This spotlight focuses on the green economy and shares some information and resources for workforce professionals to help get connected. The attached document includes general resources on green jobs, including green jobs for veterans and persons with challenges to employment.
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ETA and VETS annoucement of new video and information brief on employment of disabled veterans
ETA and VETS, DOL, are announcing the availability of a new video and information brief to promote the employment of disabled veterans through the One-Stop Career Center system. Both are available on http://disability.workforce3one.org. Share these resources with your system's stakeholders. Related resources: http://disability.workforce3one.org/view/4200927374360810672/info
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01/31/10 10:16AM
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Enhancing Employment Opportunities for Individuals with Disabilities
The International Association of Jewish Vocational Services (AJVS)published a Report entitled, "Enhancing Employment Opportunities for Individuals with Disabilities: An Employer-Directed Approach." This toolkit is a compilation of information, resources, and tools that can be used to implement or strengthen an "employer-directed approach" to job training and placement for organizations serving people with disabilities and the employers that hire them.
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01/29/10 01:27PM
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Funding Sources for Assistive Technology for Persons with Disabilities
Assistive technology devices and assistive technology service are defined in the Assistive Technology Act (ATA) of 1998, as follows: • Assistive Technology Device-Any item, piece of equipment, or product system, whether acquired commercially or off-the-shelf, modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capacities of individuals with disabilities. • Assistive technology service: Any service that directly assist an individual with a disability in the selection, acquisition, or use of an assistive technology service. There are several funding sources to assist with paying of assistive technology for individuals with disabilities, including funding by the employer (tax credits are available for the employer), Vocational Rehabilitation, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security Work Incentives, Veteran’s Administration, local service, charitable, religious, and civic organizations, private foundations, and private insurance. The attached provides a list of Web sites for variety of information on assistive technology and funding sources for persons with disabilities.
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01/24/10 09:38AM
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Successful Employer Implementation of the Federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act
The Partnership for Workplace Mental Health, a program of the American Psychiatric Foundation,advances effective employer approaches to mental health issues that impact the workplace. There is a compelling business case for effective treatment of mental health disabilities because of their high prevelance in the workplace and their impact on the corporate bottom line when left untreated. The Partnership has just issued a Brief for employers on successful implementation of the new Federal Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act. Case studies from various companies-JPMorgan Chase, DuPont, Weingarten Realty Investors, and Houston Chronicle-are included in this Brief. Visit the Partnership's Web site: http://www.workplacementalhealth.org. It has a variety of useful resources, including calulators, briefs, web-sites, Toolkits, etc. for employers and employees.
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12/31/09 02:34PM
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International Asssociation of Jewish Vocational Services (IAJVS) Financial Career Pathways Demonstration Project for People with Disabilities
IAJVS was funded by ETA/DOL to develop a sectoral approach focused on the financial services industry and workers with disabilities.
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12/22/09 11:41AM
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Veterans Green Jobs Web site
Veterans Green Jobs is a national organization providing returning military veterans with rapid training programs and deployment into meaningful jobs in the new energy economy. Leveraging the investments already made in military personnel, Veterans Green Jobs retools them for a new mission: working on the frontlines here at home to implement energy conservation, renewable energy and environmental restoration. In November 2009, Veterans Green Jobs, with Northern Virginia Community College and Virginia Tech, announced its Green Jobs Program for Veterans. This is its first East Coast green jobs training program. Visit the Web site: veteransgreenjobs.org
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12/20/09 07:55PM
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Green Collar Jobs for People wiht Barriers to Employment
This Report was funded by the City of Berkeley's Office of Energy and Sustainable Development. This Report by Raquel Pinderhughes, PhD,includes a model for an effective green collar jobs training and placement program. The target popoulation was 18-35 year old men and women with barriers to employment, including persons who do not have a high school diploma, have been out of the labor market for a long time, were formally incarcerated, and/or have limited market skills and experience.
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12/20/09 07:22PM
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Updated Work Opportunity Tax Credit Web site
The U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration has updated its Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) Web site to include a new brochure and updated forms. The WOTC is a Federal tax credit incentive for private sector business to hire individuals from 12 target groups (including people with disabilities), who have consistently faced significant barriers to employment.
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12/20/09 06:11PM
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EEOC's Guides to Schedule A Hiring
The EEOC has recently issued 5 "ABCs of Schedule A" Guides. Each Guide is targted for each participant in the Federal hiring process: Human Resource Professionals; Hiring Managers; Disability Program Managers and/or Selective Placement Coordinators. Schedule A Authority is available to Federal agencies to hire and/or promote individuals with disabilites wihtout competing the job.
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12/20/09 05:34PM
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“The Hidden Workforce,” Wendy Cassner-Lotto and Wendy Sheard, October 2009
This Report was funded through the Disability Program Navigator (DPN) initiative, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, to tie into the work of the CT-NY WIRED initiative. The Report is the result of a comprehensive assessment of the disability services available in the CT-NY Talent for Growth region, consisting of Southwestern Connecticut and Westchester and Putnam Counties in New York, and federal initiatives developed to address some of the challenges identified. Research results relating to individuals with disabilities, including detailed demographic analyses, description of the educational pipeline, needs analysis results, survey results, and employer best practices for the CT-NY Talent for Growth region are included in the Appendices of the Report. The WorkPlace, Inc., a private, not-for-profit organization, serves as the Workforce Investment Board for southwestern Connecticut and manages the project grant.
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11/19/09 08:35AM
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“US and UK Routes to Employment: Strategies to Improve Integrated Service Delivery to People with Disabilities,” Heike Boeltzig, Dorian Pilling, Jaime C. Timmons, and Robyn Johnson, IBM Center for the Business of Government,” March 2009.
In this report, the authors examine the experience of the United States and United Kingdom in developing effective strategies for providing integrated employment service delivery. It analyzes the concept of a public workforce system that provides a One-Stop system to promote the employment of persons with disabilities. The report examines what works and what does not work and provides a roadmap to improving employment services to individuals with disabilities. The report identifies 12 strategies to strengthen integrated employment service delivery system and to assist individuals with disabilities in gaining and maintaining productive employment. Implementing these strategies can benefit customers with a disability, business, the taxpayer, who will subsequently be paying less for disability assistance, and society, which gains the productive skills of qualified individuals. The following identifies the strategies to deliver existing employment services more effectively in an integrated One-Stop system to persons with disabilities: Read more...
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10/12/09 06:37PM
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Disabilities in the Workplace Case Series - University of California Davis Extension Center for Human Services
The publication, “Promoting Understating and Innovation in Support of Employees with Disabilities: A Series of Teaching Cases to Involve Executives, Managers, and Future Business Leaders in the Discussion,” was published in March, 2009. Teaching cases, as they are prepared at business schools across the country, are one of the primary tools of management education. They are used globally in university settings, professional development and executive education training, and provide students and readers with a great wealth of insider knowledge about the "norms" of business practices. The University’s intention with this series is to demonstrate "best practices" in the employment of people with disabilities, a population which has historically had and continues to have low employment rates. Five (5) cases are demonstrated in various industries and organizations throughout California, including: Smith Barney (financial services); Naval Medical Center San Diego-Cisco-Northrup Gruman (military-IT-defense); Crossroads Services (employment-retail); IBM (software); and AT&T (telecommunications). They include employees with a variety of disabilities-hearing loss, traumatic brain injury, visual disability, mobility disability, and mental illness. These case studies provide students of management with a window into five distinct corporate cultures, with each case offering a different view of the attitudes, practices, and policies that have created diverse workplaces that are accommodating to people with disabilities, both in the legal sense of the word and also in ways that are welcoming. These case studies are intended to promote discussion and generate new ideas among mangers and new business leaders.
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10/12/09 06:30PM
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Employer Resources - DPN FAQ's - U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration National Technical Assistance Project
How do I begin to build relationships with community service providers and sustain these relationships?How do I represent and educate employers on the ADA, reasonable accommodations, and hiring/retaining individuals with disabilities?
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10/01/09 09:17AM
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Disability Employment 101 - U.S. Department of Education
This guide is a comprehensive analysis of hiring employees with disabilities that includes information about how to: Find qualified workers with disabilities, Put disability and employment research into practice, and How to model what other businesses have done to successfully integrate individuals with disabilities into the workforce. It also includes checklists and various other resources to aid employers as they prepare to employ people with disabilities.
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10/01/09 09:04AM
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Disability: Dispelling the Myths - How People With Disabilities Can Meet Employer Needs
This report provides information on successful strategies used by employers to meet their labor force needs and includes practical examples and commonsense approaches for hiring and retaining people with disabilities.
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10/01/09 08:59AM
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Employer Incentives for Hiring Individuals with Disabilities
There are several tax incentives available to employers that hire individuals with disabilities. However, it is unclear just how aware employers are of these incentives and whether the incentives actually affect decision-making. What level of knowledge do human resource professionals have of tax incentives for hiring individuals with disabilities? How much are these incentives used by companies? Who in companies make decisions about whether to use these incentives? This report provides an analysis of the results from an Employer Incentives for Hiring Individuals With Disabilities Survey conducted in 2002. It provides insight into the causes and solutions to the underutilization of talented individuals with disabilities.
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10/01/09 08:57AM
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Fast Facts On… Business Tax Credits & Deductions for Employment of People with Disabilities
This publication, revised in 2007, highlights three tax incentives available to help employers cover accommodation costs for employees and/or customers with disabilities to make their business environment accessible for these individuals. Architectural/Transportation Tax Deduction Small Business Tax Credit Work Opportunity Tax Credit***: ***Please access the following website for updated information on the Work Opportunity Tax Credit: http://www.doleta.gov/business/Incentives/opptax/
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10/01/09 08:51AM
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America’s Job Exchange: Disability Exchange
America’s Job Exchange’s (AJE) 'Disability Exchange' website includes the latest job opportunities from AccessibleEmployment.org and other services that provide employers, employees, and concerned citizens with the resources they need to be educated about employing people with disabilities.
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09/30/09 03:46PM
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State Employment Specialists in Vocational Education Rehabilitation Services Administration U.S. Department of Education
This website provides employers and One-Stop Career Center partners with a list of state Vocational Rehabilitation agency employment specialist’s contacts who can provide qualified, job-ready candidates with disabilities.