Contracting Strategies that Facilitate Serving Youth Most In Need
On February 16, 2010, DOL/ETA issued Training and Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 13-09, Contracting Strategies That Facilitate Serving the Youth Most In Need." In November and December 2008, ETA held a series of focus groups with WIBs, local youth service providers,and state youth staff to discuss challenges local programs face in developing contracts that promote service to the neediest of youth (including youth with disabilities). The focus groups provided input around several areas of program contracting and management,as follows: 1) local workforce area procurement guidelines; 2) innovative strategies and processes that have produced contracts that encourage services to the youth most in need; and 3) procedures and practices that may inhibit program collaboration for serving these youth. TEGL No. 13-09 provides guidance to states, workforce investment boards, Workforce Investment Act youth service providers on contracting strategies that facilitate service providers to serve the youth most in need while still achieving performance goals.
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02/26/10 06:32PM
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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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02/11/10 12:05PM
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Partnerships with Job Corps
Job Corps is a free education and training program that helps young people learn a career, earn a high school diploma or GED, and find and keep a good job. For eligible youth at least 16 years of age, Job Corps provides the all-around skills needed to succeed in a career and in life. The Job Corps is a very important partner for the workforce system to promote employment opportunities of youth with disabilities. In this spotlight, we share information about the Job Corps program along with links to resources you can access for more information. The spotlight begins with a brief overview of the Job Corps Program. The Job Corps (http://jobcorps.doleta.gov/), a program of the U.S. Department of Labor, was established in 1964 under the Economic Opportunity Act, but it is currently authorized under the Workforce Investment Act. Job Corps receives an annual appropriation of about $1.5 billion with approximately 62,000 youth trained annually through this program. The Job Corps provides eligible youth with academic, career technical and social skills needed to become employable and independent and to help place them in employment, the military or continuing education. There are currently 123 Centers in 50 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
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02/07/10 08:52PM
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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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Coordinating with Indian and Native American Programs in the One-Stops
The attached document provides several strategies to coordinate with ETA's Indian and Native American Programs, resources,and grantee contact information
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01/31/10 09:47AM
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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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Announcement of TANF Services to Assist Youth Get Support for Employment
ETA has issues a Training and Employment Notice(TEN)to encourage the public workforce system to partner with TANF agencies in their efforts to promote subsidized employment opportunities allowable under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s (ARRA) TANF Contingency funding for the creation and expansion of subsidized summer employment for low-income youth. It also encourages co-enrollment of youth in TANF and appropriate WIA programs so individuals can benefit from WIA services such as supportive services,occupational skills training,and other relevant services. The U.S. Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services have jointly identifies areas of collaboration that support training and employment opportunities for low-income families, particularly opportunities to place eligible TANF participants in subsidized employment in the summer of 2010. It is DOL's hope that this national partnership focused on subsidized employment will be modeled throughout state and local TANF and workforce agencies. The need for this partnership comes at a critical time-- overall teen employment rate has remained devastatingly low, reaching levels not seen in 60 years. Unfortunately, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics data, the proportion of young people employed in July 2009 was 51.4 percent. This is the lowest July rate for the series, which began in 1948. While the WIA summer youth employment funding under ARRA has been nearly expended,significant TANF Emergency Contingency funding remains and TANF agencies can choose to commit some of those funds to subsidized employment programs for low-income youth. Individuals with disabilites and family members with disabilites comprise a disproportionately high percent of the population receiving TANF benefits.
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01/24/10 09:52AM
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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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National Instiute for Corrections New Employment of Ex-Offenders Resources f
The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) has released a new publication,”Using Labor Market Information to Promote Positive Employment Outcomes for Offenders.” Free copies can be ordered at: http://nicic.org/Library/024136 and Career Resource Centers, http://nicic.gov/Library/020931. In February 2010 NIC will release another publication, “How to Build Partnerships with Employers and Market Offender Workforce Initiatives.”
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01/16/10 05:56AM
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Asset Development Strategies to Promote Economic Self-Sufficiency of Persons with Disabilities
Learn how workforce professionals can become more involved to help jobseekers with low-incomes access favorable tax credits and connect to asset building strategies. With the New Year comes tax season. In this spotlight, we share information and resources about asset building strategies and how important they are to individuals with disabilities. Information and strategies focus on initiatives and incentives that working individuals with disabilities may qualify for including the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) sites. It also includes information on the Real Economic Impact Tour, which is a national initiative that is working closely with the Internal Revenue Service to help get the information out about EITC and VITA sites and build coalitions in local communities to help connect to asset building strategies. The spotlight begins with a Disability Program Navigator promising practice on promoting economic self-sufficiency of job seekers with disabilities.
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01/16/10 05:22AM
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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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“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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Front Line Staff Training - DPN FAQ's- U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration National Technical Assistance Project
Click here to view the FAQ's: http://disability.workforce3one.org/view/4000927437256675575
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10/01/09 10:21AM
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Advising Youth with Disabilities on Disclosure: Tips for Service Providers - U. S. Department of Labor Office of Disability Employment Policy
This resource, along with The 411 on disability disclosure: A workbook for youth with disabilities, from the National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth. (2005). Available at http://www.ncwd-youth.info/resources_&_Publications/411.html, is designed for youth and adults working with them to learn about disability disclosure. These resources help young people make informed decisions about whether or not to disclose their disability and understand how that decision may impact their education, employment, and social lives. While these resources are targeted for youth, they include pertinent information for all ages.
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09/29/09 04:35PM
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Disability Inquiries in the Workforce Development System - National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability/Youth
This publication is for those working in One-Stop Career Centers as well as youth and adult service providers who interact with individuals with disabilities. It is designed to help clarify what you can and cannot ask about someone’s disability.
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09/29/09 04:28PM
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DPN 30 Second Trainings
A 30-Second Training is a quick fun Power Point slide show that is electronically sent out to One-Stop and Partner staff and can be completed in a very short amount of time hence, 30-Seconds Trainings. They provide disability and employment information usually with a resource link for those that are interested in furthering their knowledge and expertise. 30-Second Trainings are designed to be fast, informative and entertaining to capture the attention of busy One-Stop staff, partners and/or employers in a 30-Second PowerPoint Show. 30-Second Trainings can be used to either introduce topics and information for the first time, or to reinforce information that has already been presented in a formal presentation. It is one of many options on a menu of training strategies and techniques for Navigators to have in their toolbox. While it can be used as a stand-alone training, it is best used to augment other training. 30-Second Training topics cover a wide-range of disability and employment issues in a way that is easy to process and that leads the end-user to a reputable internet resource where they can find additional information on the topic when they have the time or the need to access it.
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09/29/09 03:29PM
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Mental Health 3 Part Webinar Series
The purpose of this series is to provide tools, resources and strategies to create and enhance the One-Stop Career Center’s knowledge and relationship with the mental health community and how to most effectively serve job seekers with mental health disabilities as well as how to assist employers in effectively working with employees who experience mental health disabilities. This series offers: Activities that Navigators can organize to promote Mental Health Month. 30-Second Trainings that were created specifically around Mental Health awareness. A Mental Health Resource Guide.
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09/29/09 03:25PM
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Serving as a Resource on the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) Work Incentives & Other Programs that Can Impact the Employment of People with Disabilities 4 Part Webinar Series
The purpose of this four-part series is to provide Navigators with a working knowledge of some of SSA’s employment supports and other work incentives, so that they can serve as a resource to the workforce investment system. As a systems change agent, DPNs pass on this critical information to One-Stop Career Center staff, so that they have a better understanding of available employment supports and provide job seekers with disabilities with information that can help in making informed decisions about work. This series provides tools and resources that can be used by both DPNs and One-Stop Career Center staff. This four-part series includes: Navigating SSA’s website. Gaining an overview of SSA’s Work Incentives (SSI, SSDI and Medicare and Medicaid). Learning about tools and resources for DPNs and One-Stop Career Center staff. Understanding the different SSA Specialists and Resources and how to work with them. Other employment support programs that impact the employment of people with disabilities.
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09/29/09 03:23PM
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Asset Development 2 Part Webinar Series
Asset development is a series of strategies that has the potential to help people with disabilities improve their economic status, expand opportunities for community participation, and impact positively the quality of life experience. Having and building assets is important for all people; however, some individuals receive benefits that may preclude them or limit their ability to obtain and build assets. This two-part series: Discusses assets and asset development and why they are important to people with disabilities. Highlights ways to save and build assets through financial literacy and education. Reviews other asset development basics including: the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Sites, Local Earned Income Tax Coalitions, and the Real Economic Impact Tour. Talks about the importance of connecting persons with disabilities to the Work Incentives Planning and Assistance (WIPA) Project when considering asset building.