Announcement of the new Disability and Employment SGA
The Employment and Training Administration (ETA)has announced today the availability of approximately $22 million for cooperative agreements to state Workforce Investment Act (WIA) administering entities. The Combined Appropriation Act of 2010, Division D of Public Law 111-117, included $12 million in funds to ETA and $12 million to ODEP to develop and implement a plan for improving effective and meaningful participation of persons with disabilities in the workforce. The Department expects to award approximately six to ten cooperative agreements ranging from $1.5 million to $6 million. This funding is being used to implement the Disability Employment Initiative (DEI) designed to: (1) Improve educational, training, and employment opportunities and outcomes of youth and adults with disabilities who are unemployed, underemployed and/or receiving Social Security disability benefits; and (2) help these individuals with disabilities find a path into the middle class through exemplary and model service delivery by the public workforce system. DEI grants will be awarded for a three year period of performance. At a minimum, applicants must identify at least two of the following seven strategic components as significant elements of the service delivery approach for the youth or adult population to be served. Some of these strategies are not mutually exclusive nor are they always distinct or separate activities. These are practices and strategies that have been identified through both ETA and ODEP grant initiatives in increasing education and employment outcomes of the population to be served. 1. Integrated Resource Teams (IRT) 2. Integrating Resources and Services, Blending and Braiding Funds, Leveraging Resources 3. Customized Employment 4. Self-Employment 5. Guideposts for Success 6. Asset Development Strategies 7. Partnerships and Collaboration The closing date for applications is September 8, 2010.
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08/09/10 03:56PM
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Supporting Job Seekers with Multiple Challenges to Employment
Since the inception of the DPN initiative in 2003, DPNs have focused on the coordination of integrated services to job seekers with multiple challenges to employment. With considerable knowledge on resources within the workforce investment system and in the community, DPNs often see the “big picture” or the many pieces needed to form the puzzle. This information brief highlights the use of Integrated Resource Teams, which represent one approach DPNs are using to bring together multiple partners across service systems helping to build teams who work together to combine resources and help job seekers reach employment goals.
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10/02/09 03:13PM
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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.
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09/30/09 09:12PM
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Integrated Resource Team Webinar
Integrated Resource Teams (IRT) are bringing together public and private sector representatives at the local One-Stop community level to improve communication and collaboration that results in enhanced coordination of services and supports at an individual level for a job seeker with a disability. An IRT represents one of many options that a local area may be able to use to provide an increased level of support for a job seeker with a disability. This web-seminar walks through a set of IRT frequently asked questions, as well as some specific case scenarios in order to better understand the function of an IRT.
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09/29/09 02:52PM
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Integrated Resource Team (IRT) Model: Strategy to Serve Job Seekers with Multiple Barriers to Employment, Including Disabilities, in the One-Stop Career Center system
The Navigators act as facilitators to bring together multiple partners in the One-Stop Career Centers to develop an integrated resource team approach with the purpose of blending and braiding resources around an individual customer’s employment needs. This Webinar will highlight how the Oregon DPN project is using the IRT model to develop individual employment plans for job seekers with disabilities, as well as to coordinate resources across the workforce and disability systems to address multiple employment needs. Replication strategies will also be discussed.