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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.
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Universal AccessAre We serving Martians? Glenn Olsen High Risk Population Specialist Department of Workforce Development
Moon Watcher Hmm If We Only Worked Together
Look They Call That Giant Monolith A Job Center We are Afraid to Go In!!!!
The Birth of Advocacy You will make the Waterhole Accessible
Don’t Forget to Include People with Disabilities From the Beginning
Goals • Increased Employment Opportunities For People With Disabilities
Who Am I Talking to?? • WIA • DVR • SILC • CILs • CBOs • Advocacy Groups • Disability Agencies
Barriers Architectural Programmatic Attitudinal Legal Systemic Communications
Universal Access • 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
Walking Upright The Evolutionary Stages Collaboration Coordination Communication Collocation
Collocation • Not in My State • Is it Necessary • Moral Dilemmas
Communication • 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 • WIIFM • Cross Training • Build Relationships • Patience • Outreach materials to culture of target audience
Navigating the System • Eleven Pilots • Running with Scissors
? ? ? Ticket to Work WIA Adult Food Stamps Job Service HUD Older Workers W-2 WIA Dislocated Worker CSBG Vets Services Unemployment Comp Job Corps Trade Adjustment Vocational Rehabilitation WIA Youth Carl Perkins Act Adult Education Act
Other Successes • Jobline • VRS/VRI • Accessible Workstations • Nextalk • Operation One Stop • WIG
Operation One Stop • Program and Physical Accessibility • Teams of trained facilitators • Not a self assessment • Fair/Unbiased reporting
Results • 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 employer-to-employer linkages utilizing assistive technology integrating staff successfully
“Go!” • 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