Increasing Employment Opportunities for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders with Disabilities
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Participants at the closing dinner for Disability Mentoring Day on October 21, 2005.
The Center builds technical assistance capacity through the participation of partners formalized within a National Advisory Board and four National Technical Assistance Networks (see listing of Collaborators).
NTAC-AAPI Mission Statement
- To develop a National Technical Assistance Center that will increase employment opportunities for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders with disabilities nationwide, in both rural and urban areas.
- To develop and provide technical assistance that will result in increased, culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders with disabilities.
- To respond to the changing needs for technical assistance by the population being served.
Objectives
- Establish collaborative linkages for strategic planning, technical assistance, training, outreach and service delivery, and dissemination.
- Identify solutions to barriers for AAPI access and participation in VR process
- Provide information to employers and industry organizations
- Provide culturally and linguistically relevant training on legal provisions
- Provide educational and vocational outreach to AAPIs with disabilities
- Assist stakeholders to better understand related issues
- Develop a corps of AAPI leaders with disabilities