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ACCESS TO ALL
Universal Access
Are We serving Martians?
Glenn Olsen
High Risk Population Specialist
Department of Workforce
Development
The Dawn of Universal Access
for One Stops
It Can be Dangerous Out
There
Moon Watcher
Hmm If We Only Worked
Together
Look They Call That Giant
Monolith A Job Center
We are Afraid to Go In!!!!
Lets Go in Together!!
Hmm We Just need the right tools
The Birth of Advocacy
You will make the Waterhole
Accessible
Hmm What About Employers
Don’t Forget to Include People
with Disabilities From the
Beginning
The Dawning of a New Age
Goals
 Increased Employment
Opportunities For People
With Disabilities
Who Am I Talking to??
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WIA
DVR
SILC
CILs
CBOs
Advocacy Groups
Disability Agencies
Barriers
Architectural
Programmatic
Attitudinal
Legal
Systemic
Communications
Universal Access
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Basic Tenet of Workforce Investment Act
Serving the masses
Physical Vs. programmatic
Still need individualized approaches
Technical Assistance
What you can do!
Medical Model
 The Problem—Person with condition
 Core of Problem—In the person
 Actions of Paradigm—
Classify/congregate/treat
 Power Person—Expert (doctor)
 Goal of Paradigm—Fix/heal/change
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Walking Upright The
Evolutionary Stages
Collaboration
Coordination
Communication
Collocation
Collocation
 Not in My State
 Is it Necessary
 Moral Dilemmas
What’s Wrong With This Picture
Communication
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Empathy
Truly Understanding
Joint Workgroups
Input From the Beginning
Coordination
 Saving Time
 Stretching Resources
 Developing Experts
Why Collaborate?
 Provide better, more comprehensive service
to families
 Pooling resources and grants often require
collaboration
 Make our jobs easier!
 Get out of “silos,” reduce duplication of
services
Suggestions for Collaboration
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WIIFM
Cross Training
Build Relationships
Patience
Outreach materials to culture of target
audience
Breaking Barriers
Navigating the System
 Eleven Pilots
 Running with Scissors
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Other Successes
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Jobline
VRS/VRI
Accessible Workstations
Nextalk
Operation One Stop
WIG
Operation One Stop
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Program and Physical Accessibility
Teams of trained facilitators
Not a self assessment
Fair/Unbiased reporting
Results
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Plan of Action
Technical Assistance available
Potential funding options
Clarified roles
Better Customer service
Wisconsin’s One-Stop Disability Initiative:
The Last Stop to Employment
“Ready...”
WI Job Centers will offer employers:
•trained counselors
•statewide support and resources
•attitudinal and workshop trainings
•connections to disability community
“Set...”
Employers will be better educated on how they can
benefit their bottom line by:
drawing on employerto-employer linkages
utilizing
assistive
technology
integrating staff
successfully
“Go!
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Services more widely
available to approximately
260,000 un- or
underemployed
Wisconsinites with
disabilities:
• disability-friendly
employer resources
• disability oriented job
assistance
• disability job fairs