Transcript AFP Employment Summit Overview

Alliance for Full Participation
Employment Summit 11/17-19/11
Overview
Mariola Rosser
Catherine Burzio
IDEA Partnership
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Summit Goal
• To double integrated employment for persons
with intellectual and developmental
disabilities by the year 2015
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AFP's Definition of Employment
Individuals with developmental disabilities want
to work in integrated settings along with their
non-disabled colleagues. They want to be
afforded the same wages, benefits, and
opportunities to advance in their careers, and
contribute to society, and move out of poverty. To
obtain equal access to employment, education
must make transition from school to work a
priority rather than an add-on, and adult service
providers must work to remove barriers and
support individuals in real jobs for real pay.
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Who attended?
• AFP State Team Directory – 42 Participating States
• Over 1250 participants representing:
– self advocates, employers, direct support professionals,
providers, and state and federal leaders
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Important links
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AFP Website
4 minute highlight video
AFP 2011 Schedule at a Glance
Plenary Session Speakers
Handouts and PowerPoints
Directory of state team's activities and key
contacts
• State Team Scorecards
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Summit Topics
• Employment Tips for Job Seekers
and Supporters
• Creating an Employment First Policy
• Value of Employing People with
Disabilities
• Self Employment and
Microenterprise
• The Role of Small Business in
Disability Employment
• Public Policy Strategies for Improving
Asset Development Opportunities
for Persons with Disabilities
• Transportation Challenges: Getting
People to Jobs
• College: An Unexplored Pathway to
Employment
• A New Way of Doing Business: The
Move Away from Sheltered
Workshops
• Shifting Models to Integrated
Employment
• Creating Systemic Change
• Technology and
Communication: Keys to
Successful Employment
• Self Advocates Helping Each Other
to Pursue Employment Dreams
• Federal Strategies for Promoting
the Transition of Youth with
Significant Disabilities into
Integrated Employment
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Big Messages from Summit
• Depressing employment statistics for
individuals with developmental disabilities
• Moving toward Integrated Employment
• Employers perspective
• Barriers to employment (policy, systemic,
personal)
• Self-advocacy and empowerment
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Statistics
• Labor force statistics December 2010
28% of working-age adults with disabilities are employed,
compared with 70% of people without disabilities.
Workers with disabilities have experienced significantly higher
levels of job loss and hardship during the recession of the late
2000s.
• Labor force statistics FY 2003
Only 26% of individuals with IDD supported by community
rehabilitation providers (CRPs) worked in integrated jobs,
including both individual jobs and group supported
employment.
Butterworth, J., Hall, A.C., Smith, F.A., Migliore, A., & Winsor, J. (2011). StateData:
The National Report on Employment Services and Outcomes. Boston, MA:
Institute for Community Inclusion, University of Massachusetts Boston.
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Employment
• Why Employment Matters?
• What is needed to make integrated employment
a reality for all, including a look at subminimum
wage, employment first, and integrated and
group employment, and the barriers that keep us
from reaching these goals?
• What employers want the disability community
to know about employment?
• What are the promising practices across the
country in transition, implementing employment
first, systems change, and innovation?
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Definition of Integrated Employment
Regular or customized employment in the workforce
on the payroll of a company (unless self-employed)
at minimum or prevailing wages and benefits.
Employment where integration and interaction with
co-workers without disabilities and customers is
assured.
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Employers Perspective
• Employers are looking for talent
• Ask us what we need Do not tell us what you
have
• Best ways to work with potential employers is
to build trust and strong relationships that
result in quality, lasting employment
opportunities for the people with disabilities
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Barriers to Employment
• Negative attitudes
• Low Expectations (“If others in our lives don’t
believe in us, it’s hard for us to believe in
ourselves”)
• Historical devaluing of the family role
• Language of exclusion
• Stereotypes and labels
• R-word
• Disability v. Diffability (different abilities)
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Strategies promoting employment
• Partnerships and Collaboration (example, DE Early Start to
Supported Employment! DD - VR - Education! Seamless transition!
Starts last year of high school)
• National Services, Apprenticeships and Internships, technologyelectronic capacities…this is where we need to put focus.
• Funding: Long range strategic plan for implementing demonstration
models/plans BEFORE the project ends.
– Working bottom up
• Use anecdotal stories in addition to white papers, case
studies…What supports the real situations of people with
disabilities.
• Technology
• Transportation
• Increased families voice
• Self-advocacy and self-determination
• Others
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TECHNOLOGY
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Locating Apps – Search for the action
Momswithapps.com
Apple Accessibility Resources
Allwithmyiphone.com Tutorials
Bookshare.org Read to go=$
Dolphin Digital Technologies - Virtual
Technical Assessment
• Network for Training & Development, Inc.
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Self-advocacy and Empowerment
David Eagon
Julie Petty
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Ricardo Thornton