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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.

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.

Article from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) describes how employers can increase the employment of people who are blind or visually impaired.

A membership organization improving and expanding integrated employment opportunities, services and outcomes for persons experiencing disabilities.

Advocacy, public policy, education and training of community rehabilitation personnel to enhance employment outcomes of persons with disabilities.

Free online Web course trains One-Stop Career Center staff and other workforce professionals on how to serve people with disabilities.

Report from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that highlights noteworthy business practices by which employers are complying with their equal employment opportunity obligations and diversity objectives.

Highlights state-level policy options and organizational practices to improve access to work supports and employment retention and career advancement services for low-wage workers, including individuals with a disability.

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.

Explore career options and learn about high growth jobs with better wages and a brighter future.

Publication from the Office of Disability Employment Policy on implementing customized employment solutions for people with disabilities.

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.

Information about nondiscrimination laws, including disability nondiscrimination laws, that apply to the nation's job training system. Includes tools for compliance assistance and forms for filing discrimination complaints.

Provides information, training and technical assistance to America's business leaders, organized labor, rehabilitation and service providers, advocacy organizations, families and individuals with disabilities.

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.

Works to improve workforce services for individuals with disabilities, including those with psychiatric and other non-visible disabilities.

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.

Learn how to help everyone in your office be productive, efficient and successful. This presentation is part of the TARGET Discovery Series.

Provides online information and guidance for job seekers, career counselors, job developers and prospective employers about what works best for a range of disability employment issues.

A September 2007 report on the needs and challenges of American businesses in employing people with disabilities.

Tools and resources to assist the nation's workforce professionals in serving the needs of workers and business.

Fact sheet on the issues faced by people with mental illness related to employment and tactics shown to be effective in helping people with mental illness to get jobs.

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.

An association of businesses, rehabilitation service providers, schools and universities, trade unions and associations who are placing people with disabilities into employment using a model of partnership with community business and employers.

Fact sheet explains how job coaching services have been successful in working with people with significant disabilities, community programs such as welfare to work, veterans, older workers and others. This link opens a PDF document.

Provides answers for Disability Program Navigators on how to work with your One Stop Career Centers to ensure that they are physically accessible.

Provides access to information on promising practices, training and resources to help professionals assist individuals with disabilities with their employment goals.

A national membership organization of individuals and organizations that work in the workforce development field.

Resource for One-Stop Career Centers, state and local Workforce Investment Boards and policymakers with the goal of increasing employment for people with disabilities.

Centralized library of training materials and additional information and resources for staff development within the profession of Vocational Rehabilitation.

Online database of promising programs and practices in the workforce development system that effectively addresses the needs of youth with disabilities.

Contains journal articles, books, reports and other sources of research and practice in the area of workforce development and youth with disabilities.

Documents offer guidance in the design and implementation of programs in the fields of workforce, disability and youth.

An educational/job-matching organization that brings together employers, advanced communications technology and vocational rehabilitation agencies to enable people with disabilities to train for and work online.

These regulations provide particular rights in the nation's One-Stop Career Center job training system to customers, applicants and employees with disabilities, and to people in other protected groups.

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.

Nationally recognized source of career information designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives.

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.

Links to RECPs providing training and technical assistance to public vocational rehabilitation and community agencies.

Links to information and publications for direct support professionals on helping individuals with disabilities find and maintain employment.

Explains how entrepreneurship education can be implemented in programs and offers suggestions on how to introduce self-employment as an option for all youth, including youth with disabilities.

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.

Provides answers to frequently asked questions about self-employment as a customized employment outcome.

Reports, checklists, guides, tools and other resources produced by state and local agencies and organizations that help One-Stop Career Centers include people with disabilities in their services.

Training manual to assist service providers in the implementation of supported employment programs.

Provides information on how to help people with mental illnesses and other disabilities find and keep competitive employment within their communities.

Fact sheet outlines how employers, workforce professionals and others can work to identify support needs of individuals with autism in order to create successful employment outcomes.

New York Law School's Justice Action Center presents the Tony Coelho Lecture in Disability Employment Law & Policy. A national leader in politics, government, policy, business, organized labor, entertainment, the disabilities community or other related communities will present a major address at New York Law School that contributes to our understanding of the issues associated with increasing the employment rate among people with disabilities.

Training resources and online information related to customized employment strategies for individuals with disabilities.

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.

Decision support software for personal computers designed to help people with disabilities, advocates, benefit counselors and others explore and understand how to best use the work incentives associated with the various Federal and State disability and poverty benefit programs. It automates the computation of benefits, and takes into account the complex interaction of income, benefit programs and work incentives.

Links to wide range of workforce development resources, including webinars.

Employment focused guide on how employers and service providers can utilize assistive technology to make workplaces and service centers accessible to people with disabilities. Contains illustrations of many different types of assistive technologies, including descriptive text on the use of these technologies.

Training and technical assistance center with information on the supports that are most effective for assisting individuals with disabilities in maintaining employment and advancing their careers.

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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.
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.
At Your Service: Welcoming Customers with Disabilities
Free online Web course trains One-Stop Career Center staff and other workforce professionals on how to serve people with disabilities.
Workplace Technologies for People with Disabilities
Employment focused guide on how employers and service providers can utilize assistive technology to make workplaces and service centers accessible to people with disabilities. Contains illustrations of many different types of assistive technologies, including descriptive text on the use of these technologies.
Department of Labor Civil Rights Center (CRC)
Information about nondiscrimination laws, including disability nondiscrimination laws, that apply to the nation's job training system. Includes tools for compliance assistance and forms for filing discrimination complaints.