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Lets Talk Strategies: Employment First in Action

Discover South Dakota's Employment First initiatives, including task force recommendations, vocational rehabilitation programs, and developmental disability services. Learn about the state's progress in increasing employment rates for individuals with disabilities and explore effective strategies for achieving positive outcomes.

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Lets Talk Strategies: Employment First in Action

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  1. Lets Talk Strategies: Employment First in Action Wendy Parent-Johnson 2016 National APSE Conference Cincinnati, OH

  2. What’s Happening in SD? • 50.1 % people employed • Lowest unemployment rate • Ranked 8th on State Employment System Performance Score (Smith & Butterworth, ThinkWork)

  3. Governor Daugaard’s Employment Initiative https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLc4C50Ia2E

  4. SD Employment Works Task Force Recommendations • Find and support businesses to employ people with disabilities. • Connect businesses to employees with disabilities. • Eliminate disincentives to employment for people with disabilities. • Develop flexible systems and promote promising policies.

  5. Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Transition • Project Skills • Transition Services Liaison Project • Youth Leadership Forum • Indicator 14 Outcomes General • CESP Certification • 25% rate increase • Ticket to Work Payments • ½ dollars on Job placement & job coaching • Establishment Grants (15) • Training and TA • 511 Reviews

  6. Division of Developmental Disability Services • Communicate with families earlier • Person Centered Thinking • Change the culture and trajectory for employment • Employment First Alliance • National Core Indicator interviews • Waiver cost-share removal

  7. Everyone Works Together

  8. What Makes EF Work? • Commitment • Leadership • Opportunity • Engagement • Innovation RPJ, 2013

  9. Are We There Yet? Still Have: • 49.9% not working • 1,284 people receiving subminimum wage • 63% say they want a job • Implementation issues We Are Seeing: • Change in conversations • Shifting expectations • New questions being asked • More people becoming employed

  10. Let’s Talk • What EF activities are happening in your state? • What do you feel has influenced employment practices? • What strategies have been effective in impacting outcomes? • What ideas and suggestions would you like to see implemented?

  11. For more information, contact Wendy Parent-Johnson, Ph.D. Executive Director Center for Disabilities University of South Dakota Wendy.parentjohnson@usd.ed (605)357-1468

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