Workforce Professionals Resources
2009 US Business Leadership Network's (BLN) 12th Annual Conference & National Career Fair
The 2009 Annual Conference, Connecting The Dots: Business Solutions, is for business, community leaders and BLN affiliates that have an interest in hiring, retaining and marketing to people with disabilities. The event will be held September 15-18, 2009 at the National Harbor near Washington, DC. Pre-registration deadline is April 30, 2009.
Access for All Customers: Universal Strategies for One-Stop Career Centers
Information from the Institute for Community Inclusion on how one-stop career centers can make sure they are accessible for people with disabilities. This link opens a PDF document.
Association for Persons in Supported Employment (APSE)
Association of Community Education Rehabilitation Programs (ACRE)
At Your Service: Welcoming Customers with Disabilities
Best Practices of Private Sector Employers
Building Bridges to Self Sufficiency
Building, Developing & Going to Scale: Grant Funded Programs for Youth in Transition
Technical assistance tools to offer guidance in the design and implementation of programs in the field of workforce disability and youth. Resource from the National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability/Youth for workforce professionals, state agencies working with youth, policy makers and others working with transition issues related to youth with disabilities.
Customized Employment - Practical Solutions
Customized Employment Training Course
This course, offered April 20-May 18, 2009, provides an overview of customized employment, a process for individualizing the employment relationship between a job seeker and an employer in ways that meet the needs of both. All instruction is Web based and the lectures are in audio format. Register online.
Department of Labor Civil Rights Center (CRC)
Department of Labor Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP)
Provides information, training and technical assistance to America's business leaders, organized labor, rehabilitation and service providers, advocacy organizations, families and individuals with disabilities.
Disability Employment 101 for Your Business
Brochure for small- and medium-sized businesses interested in increasing their hiring pool by recruiting well-qualified employees with disabilities. This brochure is also available in text form.
Disability Program Navigator (DPN) Initiative
Discover How to Make Your Home Office More Ergonomic
As part of the TARGET Discovery Series, learn basic tips to ease the pains of telework by reducing repetitive-stress injuries and working more efficiently.
Discover the 5 Keys to Unlocking the Potential of Your Office
Learn how to help everyone in your office be productive, efficient and successful. This presentation is part of the TARGET Discovery Series.
Employer Perspectives on Workers with Disabilities
A September 2007 report on the needs and challenges of American businesses in employing people with disabilities.
Employment & Training Administration (ETA) Information for Workforce Professionals
Employment Issues for People with Mental Illness
Guideposts for Supporting Employers
Information from the National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth (NCWD/Youth) on what the workforce development system can do to address employers' needs with regard to hiring any job applicant, as well as additional needs employers may have in hiring and retaining employees with disabilities.
Inter-National Association of Business, Industry & Rehabilitation (I-NABIR)
Job Coaching Benefits to Businesses & People with Disabilities
Making One Stop Career Centers Accessible
Provides answers for Disability Program Navigators on how to work with your One Stop Career Centers to ensure that they are physically accessible.
National Association of Workforce Development Professionals (NAWDP)
National Center on Workforce & Disability/Adult
Resource for One-Stop Career Centers, state and local Workforce Investment Boards and policymakers with the goal of increasing employment for people with disabilities.
National Clearinghouse of Rehabilitation Training Materials
National Collaborative on Workforce & Disability for Youth - Pro-Bank
National Collaborative on Workforce & Disability for Youth - Publications Bank
National Collaborative on Workforce & Disability for Youth - Technical Assistance Tools
National Telecommuting Institute
Nondiscrimination Regulations for the Nation's Job Training System
Harvard University's Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation has recognized the Office of Disability Employment Policy's (ODEP) Customized Employment initiative as noteworthy, placing it among the top 20 percent of more than 600 applicants. Learn more about customized employment and ODEP's other initiatives that promote the employment of people with disabilities.
Occupational Outlook Handbook 2008-09 Edition
Program designed to ensure that skilled personnel are available to serve the rehabilitation needs of individuals with disabilities assisted through the Vocational Rehabilitation, Client Assistance Supported Employment and Independent Living programs.
Rehabiltation Continuing Education Programs (RECPs)
Resources for Direct Support Professionals
Road to Self-Sufficiency: A Guide to Entrepreneurship for Youth with Disabilities
START-UP/ USA - Self-Employment Technical Assistance, Resources & Training
Provides technical assistance, resources and training to individuals throughout the country who are interested in pursuing self-employment. Site offers a Web cast series in which successful entrepreneurs share their secrets for success and online seminars on topics including self-employment for individuals with disabilities.
Self-Employment as a Customized Employment Outcome
State & Local Resources By Topic
Supported Employment Handbook: A Customer-Driven Approach for Persons with Significant Disabilities
Supporting Individuals with Autism in Integrated Community Jobs
Tony Coelho Lecture in Disability Employment Law & Policy
Training & Technical Assistance for Providers
Work Incentive Planning & Assistance (WIPA) Projects
List of Community Work Incentive Coordinators who offer information and technical assistance in your state on the work incentives that help Social Security Disability (SSDI) and Supplementary Security Income (SSI) beneficiaries return to work.
Workplace Technologies for People with Disabilities