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Why Employment Matters

Why Employment Matters. Alliance for Full Participation Summit 2011 December, 2011. Promoting Employment First Policies and Practices. What do we know? What do we want? What can we do?. Promoting Employment First Policies and Practices. What do we know?.

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Why Employment Matters

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  1. Why Employment Matters Alliance for Full Participation Summit 2011 December, 2011

  2. Promoting Employment First Policies and Practices • What do we know? • What do we want? • What can we do?

  3. Promoting Employment First Policies and Practices What do we know?

  4. Lives in Household Below Poverty Threshold – 2009 American Community Survey

  5. Getting out of Poverty Having a Job

  6. Employment participation 2009 Percent Working American Community Survey

  7. Like Everyone Else Having a Job

  8. Trends over Time: Total Served and Integrated Employment Nationally ICI IDD Agency Survey

  9. Employment and Day Supports: National ICI IDD Agency Survey

  10. What We Need Having a Job

  11. Mean Wage/Week National Core Indicators Project 2008-2009

  12. Getting More Earnings Having a Job

  13. State DD agency successes in integrated employment varies widely ICI IDD Agency Survey

  14. States VR Agency successes Vary – (Rehabilitation Rate) States Persons with ID - RSA 911 – 2007

  15. Supply and Demand in Future Years (NE Fed Reserve 2010) 2010 those entering the workforce will be 10% greater than those leaving 2020 those entering the workforce will be 15% smaller than those leaving The workforce will be more diverse and have more older workers in 2015 37.4% of total employment will be low skilled workers From 2009 thru 2018 a growth rate of 11.9% in low skilled jobs (health, food, personal care, construction and production)

  16. Promoting Employment First Policies and Practices What do we want? (Expectations for Employment)

  17. NLTS2 Students: I will eventually get a paid job

  18. What Youth Want Having a Job

  19. Participant Prefers employment outside of workshop Migliore (2006)

  20. What People in Workshops Want Having a Job

  21. Promoting Employment First Policies and Practices What can we do? (A time for a change)

  22. Employment First: Realities and Expectations What Do We Mean By Employment First?

  23. Employment First: Essential Elements • Presumption of Employment for ALL • A Series of Policies, Procedures and Practices • Outcomes Competitive Integrated Employment

  24. Competitive Integrated Employment: Essential Elements • Paid at the minimum or prevailing wage • Similar benefits to all • Opportunity to continuously interact with co-workers without disabilities • Chances for advancement • Preferably full time

  25. What is the Outcome Having a Job

  26. Practices that Have Worked • Person centered and directed services and supports • Postsecondary education • National Service • Apprenticeship and internships • Technology: Electronic job development

  27. Are We there Yet? The employment participation rate for persons with disabilities (20.7% currently) is the same as that for persons without disabilities (71.9% currently) My goal is 71.9% employment participation for all

  28. What Matters HAVING A JOB

  29. Why Employment Matters William E. Kiernan, Ph.D., Director Institute for Community Inclusion University of Massachusetts Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd Boston, MA 02125 617-287-4311 william.kiernan@umb.edu www.communityinclusion.org

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