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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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ACCESS TO ALL

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  1. ACCESS TO ALL

  2. Universal AccessAre We serving Martians? Glenn Olsen High Risk Population Specialist Department of Workforce Development

  3. The Dawn of Universal Access for One Stops

  4. It Can be Dangerous Out There

  5. Moon Watcher Hmm If We Only Worked Together

  6. Look They Call That Giant Monolith A Job Center We are Afraid to Go In!!!!

  7. Lets Go in Together!!

  8. Hmm We Just need the right tools

  9. The Birth of Advocacy You will make the Waterhole Accessible

  10. Hmm What About Employers

  11. Don’t Forget to Include People with Disabilities From the Beginning

  12. The Dawning of a New Age

  13. Goals • Increased Employment Opportunities For People With Disabilities

  14. Who Am I Talking to?? • WIA • DVR • SILC • CILs • CBOs • Advocacy Groups • Disability Agencies

  15. Barriers Architectural Programmatic Attitudinal Legal Systemic Communications

  16. Universal Access • Basic Tenet of Workforce Investment Act • Serving the masses • Physical Vs. programmatic • Still need individualized approaches • Technical Assistance • What you can do!

  17. 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

  18. Walking Upright The Evolutionary Stages Collaboration Coordination Communication Collocation

  19. Collocation • Not in My State • Is it Necessary • Moral Dilemmas

  20. What’s Wrong With This Picture

  21. Communication • Empathy • Truly Understanding • Joint Workgroups • Input From the Beginning

  22. Coordination • Saving Time • Stretching Resources • Developing Experts

  23. 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

  24. Suggestions for Collaboration • WIIFM • Cross Training • Build Relationships • Patience • Outreach materials to culture of target audience

  25. Breaking Barriers

  26. Navigating the System • Eleven Pilots • Running with Scissors

  27. ? ? ? 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

  28. Other Successes • Jobline • VRS/VRI • Accessible Workstations • Nextalk • Operation One Stop • WIG

  29. Operation One Stop • Program and Physical Accessibility • Teams of trained facilitators • Not a self assessment • Fair/Unbiased reporting

  30. Results • Plan of Action • Technical Assistance available • Potential funding options • Clarified roles • Better Customer service

  31. 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

  32. “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

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