Publications


Employment


Title: AmeriCorps
Link: http://www.americorps.gov
Description: Each year, AmeriCorps offers 75,000 opportunities for adults of all ages and backgrounds to serve through a network of partnerships with local and national nonprofit groups.

Title: ETA DisAbility Online
Link: http://www.doleta.gov/disability
Description: The Employment & Training Administration (ETA) Disabilities Program develops and implements workforce disability policy and program initiatives to address structural, programmatic, and systemic employment barriers for people with disabilities. The ETA Disabilities Program Web site provides links to employment and training resources and other employment-related information.

Title: Hire Abilities Hawaii
Link: http://www.hireabilitieshawaii.org/Home.aspx
Description: The Hire Abilities Hawaii Web site provides information and resources on employment, self-employment, and work incentives for people with disabilities.

Title: National Business & Disability Council
Link: http://www.business-disability.com/index.aspx
Description: The National Business & Disability Council is a resource for employers seeking to integrate people with disabilities into the workplace and companies seeking to reach them in the consumer marketplace.

Title: National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth
Link: http://www.ncwd-youth.info
Description: The National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth (NCWD/Youth) assists state and local workforce development systems to better serve youth with disabilities. The NCWD/Youth is composed of partners with expertise in disability, education, employment, and workforce development issues. Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), the NCWD/Youth is housed at the Institute for Educational Leadership.

Title: The National Service Inclusion Project
Link: http://www.serviceandinclusion.org
Description: The National Service Inclusion Project (NSIP) promotes the active engagement of people with disabilities as service members in all levels of national and community service.

Title: National Youth Employment Coalition
Link: http://www.nyec.org
Description: The National Youth Employment Coalition (NYEC) is a non-partisan national organization dedicated to promoting policies and initiatives that help youth succeed in becoming lifelong learners, productive workers, and self-sufficient citizens. This site contains information on legislation, best practices, and leadership development, as well as a variety of projects and initiatives.

Title: Worksupport.com
Link: http://www.worksupport.com
Description: The Worksupport.com Web site provides information, resources, and research about work and disability issues. The Worksupport.com Web site includes a listing of research, projects, an online store, training information, and a free e-newsletter.

Title: Plan to Achieve Self-Support (PASS)
Link: http://www.socialsecurity.gov/disabilityresearch/wi/pass.htm
Description: Plan to Achieve Self-Support (PASS) is a Social Security Income (SSI) provision to help individuals with disabilities return to work. PASS lets individuals with disabilities set aside money and/or things he or she owns to pay for items or services needed to achieve a specific work goal. Items and services can include supplies to start a business, school expenses, equipment and tools, transportation and uniform requests. PASS lets people set aside money for installment payments as well as a down payment for things like a vehicle, wheelchair, or computer if these items are needed to reach their work goal.
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Title: Small Business Training Network
Link: http://www.sba.gov/services/training/onlinecourses/index.html
Description: The Small Business Training Network (SBTN) is a customer-focused U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) strategy designed to enrich, educate and empower small businesses. It is an Internet-based learning environment - operating like a virtual campus - offering free online courses, workshops, publications, information resources, learning tools and direct access to electronic counseling, and other forms of technical assistance. Course topics include:

- Starting a Business
- Business Planning
- Business Marketing
- Financing and Accounting
- Government Contracting
- Risk Management & Cyber Security
- Federal Tax Training
- Small Business Retirement
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Title: Ticket to Work Program
Link: http://www.socialsecurity.gov/work/aboutticket.html
Description: The Ticket to Work Program is the key to unlocking vocational rehabilitation, training, job referrals, and other ongoing support and services to help you reach your employment goals. The program is available for people who are between the ages of 18 and 65 and receive Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for people who are disabled or blind.

You can take your Ticket to any Employment Network (EN), State Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) agency, or Work Incentives Planning and Assistance Center (WIPA) to request assistance in job training, preparing materials to use to find a job, locating employers informing you about work incentives and other assistance in you may need to work. Go to https://secure.ssa.gov/apps10/oesp/providers.nsf/bystate to view a list of WIPA providers by state.
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Title: Workforce Recruitment Program for College Students with Disabilities (WRP)
Link: https://wrp.gov/
Description: The Workforce Recruitment Program (WRP) is a recruitment and referral program that connects Federal sector employers nationwide with highly motivated postsecondary students and recent graduates with disabilities who are eager to prove their abilities in the workplace through summer or permanent jobs. Co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) and the U.S. Department of Defense with the participation of many other Federal agencies, the WRP has provided employment opportunities for over 4,000 students since 1995.
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Title: Start-Up USA Self-Employment Fact Sheet
Link: http://www.start-up-usa.biz/resources/content.cfm?id=651
Description: Medicaid Waivers may be one of the tools that individuals with disabilities can use to support self-employment. While not every individual with a disability will be able to use a Waiver for self-employment, those individuals who are already receiving services, or who are eligible to become Waiver participants can explore the possibility in their states. This Q and A provides an overview and examples of how individuals with disabilities have used Medicaid Waivers to support self-employment. Information provided by Monday Morning in Washington, D.C. (The Arc of the United States, 2007).
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Title: Spanish Language Job Accomodation Resources
Link: http://www.jan.wvu.edu/espanol/
Description: The Job Accomodation Network (JAN) is strongly committed to serving the Hispanic American workforce. JAN's outreach efforts include consultation and technical assistance in Spanish. This Web site highlights JAN's Spanish resources and is intended for JAN's English-speaking audience who would like to help distribute JAN literature to the Hispanic community.
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Title: Job Accomodation Network
Link: http://askjan.org/index.html
Description: Job Accommodation Network (JAN) is a free consulting service of the Office of Disability Employment Policy, U.S. Department of Labor. JAN was designed to increase the employability of people with disabilities by: 1) providing individualized worksite accommodations solutions, 2) providing technical assistance regarding the ADA and other disability related legislation, and 3) educating callers about self-employment options.
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Title: LimeConnect
Link: http://www.limeconnect.com/
Description: LimeConnect matches the employment needs of corporations with the skill sets of persons with disabilities. LimeConnect, founded in 2006, connects college students and professional candidates with disabilities through "private recruiting efforts" with Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, PepsiCo, and Google, its four major partners.
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Title: National Business & Disability Council
Link: http://www.business-disability.com/index.aspx
Description: For more than 30 years, the National Business & Disability Council (NBDC) has been providing people with disabilities the resources needed to get jobs. NBDC boasts more than 30 corporate members, including AIG, Liz Claiborne, and Proctor & Gamble. The group leads the diversity-internship program "Emerging Leaders" and also hosts "an invitation-only Wall Street job fair for candidates seeking jobs at financial-service firms," such as Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs.
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Title: Ticket to Work Conference Schedule
Link: http://www.socialsecurity.gov/work/events.html
Description: This Web site hosts a calendar of events (conference, meetings, etc.) at which you can learn more about the Ticket to Work Program.

The Ticket to Work Program provides most people receiving Social Security benefits (beneficiaries) more choices for receiving employment services. Under this program, the Social Security Administration (SSA) issues tickets to eligible beneficiaries who, in turn, may choose to assign those tickets to an Employment Network (EN) of their choice to obtain employment services, vocational rehabilitation services, or other support services necessary to achieve a vocational (work) goal. The EN, if they accept the ticket, will coordinate and provide appropriate services to help the beneficiary find and maintain employment.

This is also an opportunity to meet others with disabilities and those engaged in disability and work related activities.
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Title: EARNWorks & the Workforce Recruitment Program
Link: https://wrp.gov/LoginPre.do?method=login
Description: EARNWorks is the Web site of the Employer Assistance & Recruiting Network (EARN). EARN is a free service that connects employers with qualified jobseekers with disabilities. EARN also provides employers with consultative services on disability matters. EARN is also the “entryway” for private sector employers to access the Workforce Recruitment Program (WRP).

The WRP is an excellent resource if you are looking to recruit talented college students with disabilities for summer or permanent positions. The WRP maintains a database of hundreds of motivated postsecondary students and recent graduates eager to prove their abilities in the workforce. Representing all majors and hailing from over 200 colleges and universities nationwide, these applicants have been pre-screened through face-to-face interviews, ensuring they are more than qualified to meet your workforce needs.

EARNWorks and the WRP are provided by the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP).
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Title: Diversifying Your Workforce, A Four-Step Reference Guide to Recruiting, Hiring & Retaining Employees with Disabilities
Link: http://www.dol.gov/odep/documents/Flip%2
20Guide_FINAL_3%2030_508%20compliant2.pdf
Description: To meet the need for a comprehensive, portable, and easy to understand guide for employers who are looking to recruit, hire, and retain employees with disabilities, ODEP just released its new Four-Step Reference Guide. The online version of this valuable resource, which covers topics such as Incentives & ROI, Recruiting, Interviewing & Hiring, and much more, also provides a wealth of links and other resources.

The print version of Diversifying Your Workforce, A Four-Step Reference Guide to Recruiting, Hiring & Retaining Employees with Disabilities will be available later this year. In the meantime, the PDF version is available online.
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Title: Business Case for Hiring People with Disabilities
Link: http://www.earnworks.com/BusinessCase/index.asp
Description: The recently revised Business Case for Hiring People with Disabilities, including veterans with disabilities, features video clips, research and other information from businesses and industry leaders on how hiring people with disabilities improves an organization's bottom line across six themes: Return on Investment, Human Capital, Innovation, Marketing, Diversity and Social Responsibility.
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Title: Disability Program Navigator (DPN) Initiative
Link: http://www.doleta.gov/disability/new_dpn_grants.cfm
Description: The U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration and the Social Security Admnistration (SSA) are jointly funding the DPN Initiative in 44 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the United States Virgin Islands where SSA implemented employment support initiatives. This Initiative promotes comprehensive services and work incentive information for SSA beneficiaries and other people with disabilities, through the One Stop system. The Initiative focuses on developing new and ongoing partnerships to achieve seamless, comprehensive, and integrated access to services, creating systemic change, and expanding the workforce development system's capacity to serve customers with disabilities and employers.
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Title: Social Security Administration (SSA) Is Hiring
Link: http://www.ssa.gov/work/scheduleA/
Description: The Social Security Administration (SSA) recently received funding to hire more employees throughout the country. This hiring initiative offers a unique opportunity for individuals with disabilities who may want to work for SSA. These jobs will be at various skill levels including a number of entry-level positions.

Click on the above link for more information. To search and apply for jobs visit USAJOBS (http://jobsearch.usajobs.opm.gov/a9ssajob.asp).
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Title: Studentjobs.gov
Link: http://www.studentjobs.gov/
Description: Studentjobs.gov is the one-stop portal for a range of employment opportunities for students within the Federal Government, whether in high school, college, or graduate school.
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Title: Registered Apprenticeship Training and Toolkit
Link: http://www.dol.gov/odep/categories/youth/apprenticeship.htm
Description: The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) has developed a tool kit on registered apprenticeship. The intended audiences for this tool kit are service providers who work with young people, including young people with disabilities.

Click on the above link for more information and to access the tool kit.

For more information about apprenticeships and other job and career planning resources visit the Employment and “Find a Job” sections of Disability.gov.
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Title: Self-Employment Technical Assistance, Resources, & Training
Link: http://www.start-up-usa.biz/
Description: Self-Employment Technical Assistance, Resources, & Training (START-UP / USA) is a partnership between Virginia Commonwealth University and Griffin-Hammis and Associates, LLC. START-UP / USA is funded by a cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP). Congress designated the cooperative agreement funds to ODEP for the further development of self-employment as an employment outcome for individuals with disabilities.

START-UP / USA provides technical assistance and disseminates resources nationally to individuals interested in pursuing self-employment. This includes the live web cast series with successful entrepreneurs who share their secrets for success.
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Title: Road to Work: Speak-Up Action Manual
Link: http://www.addyic.org/Documents/Resources/
/Road%20to%20Work%202009FINAL%2011-12-09.pdf
Description: The “Road to Work” Speak-Up Action Manual was created by a team of self-advocates called Youths 4 Advocacy (Y4A). Y4A is a project that supports youths to speak up and plan their futures. As emerging leaders, they want YOU to have the steps that you need to get a job that’s right for you. There are lots of opportunities—you can start your own business or you can find a traditional job —it’s your choice! Y4A wants you to find your passion…what gets you excited will lead to your dream and that dream leads you to the work that you want to do! It’s important to have the confidence and the support to succeed. Use the steps in this book. Enjoy your travels on the road to work!
Source: Youths 4 Advocacy

Title: Tips for Getting Federal Jobs
Link: http://www.dol.gov/odep/pubs/scheduleA/ab
bc_Job_Applicants_ODEP_508%20compliant.pdf
Description: The ABCs of Schedule A for Applicants with Disabilities is a guide that provides answers to most of your questions about using Schedule A to get through the federal hiring process.

There are many advantages to working for the federal government. Federal employees serve in a wide variety of exciting jobs, earn good wages, receive medical benefits, and make a difference through public service! The federal government hires people in many different fields, from accounting to public affairs, health care to law enforcement, and everything in between.

For so many, however, the steps to getting a federal job seem numerous and difficult. This does not have to be the case. There are many different paths to federal employment, and for individuals with disabilities, one of those paths is the Schedule A hiring authority.

What is Schedule A?
Schedule A is an excepted service hiring authority available to federal agencies to hire and/or to promote individuals with disabilities without competing the job.

Utilizing the Schedule A hiring authority to fill a vacancy allows federal agencies to avoid using the traditional, and sometimes lengthy, competitive hiring process.

You are eligible for a Schedule A appointment if you are a person with a severe physical or mental disability, and meet the qualifications of the job in question. There are no specific definitions as to what qualifies as a “severe mental or physical disability” under Schedule A, so federal agencies are free to interpret the requirements broadly.
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Title: Helping Your Clients Obtain Federal Employment
Link: http://www.dol.gov/odep/pubs/scheduleA/abc_
_Service%20Providers_ODEP_508%20compliant.pdf
Description: Are you a career counselor? Do you work in disability student services? Are you a vocational counselor or vocational rehabilitation professional? Are you an employment navigator? Do you work in any capacity to assist individuals with disabilities obtain meaningful employment? If so, this guide is for you! The federal government wants you to know how to help your clients get in our doors!

The ABCs of Schedule A for Service Providers will educate all types of service providers about a special hiring authority – Schedule A – which is used in the federal government to quickly bring individuals with disabilities on board. This guide will show you, step by step, how to work with your local federal agencies to successfully place your clients with disabilities using Schedule A.

This brochure gives you the basics of using the Schedule A hiring authority, answers the most frequently asked questions concerning the use of Schedule A, and provides resources that will help you use this powerful employment option more effectively.
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Title: Tools for America's Job Seekers
Link: http://www.careeronestop.org/jobseekertools/
Description: The U.S. Department of Labor has announced the results of its Tools for America's Job Seekers Challenge. Recommendations have been tallied, and the top-rated sites in categories including general job boards, niche tools, career tools, career exploration tools and Web 2.0 (social networking) are now available.

Information provided by Disability.gov.
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Title: EEOC Outreach Program Coordinators
Link: http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/outreach/coordinators.cfm
Description: Preventing employment discrimination from occurring in the workplace in the first place is preferable to remedying the consequences of discrimination. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) offers training, outreach and education programs to help employers, employees and others understand and prevent discrimination. The EEOC believes that discrimination can be averted if companies, federal agencies and individuals know and understand their legal rights and responsibilities.

EEOC representatives are available on a limited basis at no cost to make presentations and participate in meetings with employees and employers, and their representative groups, as well as community organizations and other members of the general public.
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Title: Ten Employment Myths: Information about the Americans with Disabilities Act
Link: http://www.ada.gov/videogallery.htm
Description: This 17 minute video for employers uses a question-and-answer format to explain the ADA in common sense terms and refute unfounded misconceptions and fears that many employers may have about hiring people with disabilities.

This video and other ADA accessible streaming videos are available at the ADA Video Gallery.

Information provided by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Title: Summer Youth Employment Programs Promising Practices
Link: http://www.nawb.org/Default.aspx?tabid=186
Description: The National Association of Workforce Boards (NAWB) is one of the Employment and Training Administration’s seven partners in the Intergovernmental Recovery Act Collaborative that provides technical assistance to the workforce system. In 2010 NAWB collected and uploaded over 150 promising practices and success stories on Summer Youth Employment programs from last summer. The Web site includes videos, youth essays and letters, program descriptions and press releases.
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Title: Building The Next Generation: OJT Toolkit
Link: http://ojttoolkit.workforce3one.org
Description: Workforce3 One has launched a new web-based toolkit designed to help state and local workforce professionals expand and strengthen their on-the-job training (OJT) strategies. OJTs connect workers with training and jobs and provide employers with reimbursements for training. The OJT training option has a proven track record of helping workers gain new skills to find and retain employment.

The OJT Toolkit is an online suite of resources that gives state workforce agencies and local OJT providers templates and examples that are customizable to meet their needs. Further, OJT Toolkit documents allow local providers to quickly and efficiently implement OJT in their area.

The toolkit currently houses the following resources:
• Policies and Procedures
• Outreach Materials
• Contracts and Modifications
• Training Plans
• Monitoring Tools
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Title: Youth Connections Community of Practice
Link: http://youth.workforce3one.org/page/home
Description: The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) has unveiled its latest Community of Practice on Workforce3 One--this one focusing on youth issues. This online community is a place where youth practitioners can learn from one another, share successful approaches and models, and advance youth workforce development efforts. The CoP platform is intended to foster continued collaboration and problem solving before and after trainings, conferences, and workshops.

Members are able to access a wealth of resources posted by their colleagues as well as ETA within the community and through the broader resources of Workforce3 One, including the robust Workforce Solutions database. The Youth Connections CoP topic areas include Youth Workforce Connections, Building Youth Talent, Emerging Industries for Youth and Hot Topics.

Here's just a few highlights of what can be found on the Youth CoP:
• Reinvesting in America's Youth: Lessons from the 2009 Recovery Act Summer Youth Employment Initiative
• Clearinghouse for Summer Employment
• What if a college education just isn't for everyone- Then what? (Blog entry--Please join the Discussion!)
• Prisoner Reentry Toolkit for Faith Base and Community Organizations

Click on the above link to join the Youth Connections CoP.
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Title: SHRM Disability Employment Resource Page
Link: http://www.shrm.org/hrdisciplines/Divers
sity/Articles/Pages/disability_072110.aspx
Description: The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), which signed a new Alliance Agreement with ODEP in late 2009, has launched a new Disability Employment Resource Page. SHRM created this resource page with employers in mind to offer resources, articles and information to help recruit, hire and retain people with disabilities. The new resource page also includes videos of experts in the field of disability employment.
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