Shared Advantages of Integrated Employment

1. Shared Advantages of Integrated Employment

2. WORK ISGOOD!

3. BEG PLACE PRAY

4. Presumption of Employability: • There’s a job for everyone who wants one, regardless of disability label, need for support, or economic vitality of the community.

5. Work Experience: 15 years in a sheltered workshop Always interested in video and media Now works in video editing job Collaboration made it happen DAVID

6. Minimizing the Disparity of Employment Outcomes Collaborations for employment

7. What does it take? • Blending and braiding resources • Identifying points of success for all elements of the collaborating systems • Flexible applications of governing regulations of collaborating systems

8. Collaborations: What do schools need? • Special education law compliance • Collaboration to begin joint service BEFORE school exit

9. Collaborations: What do funders need? • Rehabilitation closures • Employment goals met • Bang for the buck!

10. Collaborations: What do service providers need? • *Guidance and fair service rates from funders • *Incentives for outcomes • *Well trained staff

11. Collaborations: What does the workforce system need? Performance Measures met Help from mandated and non-mandated partners

12. What do individuals and families need? • *Opportunities for self-directed employment plans • *Individualized, person centered service • *Responsive support • JOBS!!!

13. What about those individuals who require extensive support/ accommodation?

19. Integrated Employment Works • For People: Net benefit ratio of integrated employment = 4.20; (13.54 in Washington State) (Cimera, 2010) • For Taxpayers: $1.21 in return for every $1.00 spent. (Cimera, 2010) • For Employers: Employers report operational benefits from customized employment strategies (Luecking, et al., 2006)

20. Integrated Employment Works for Individuals • Reliance on public income supports decreases, total income increases • Source: Westat (2006)

21. Integrated Employment Works for Tax Payers • $1.21 in return for every $1.00 spent • Source: Cimera (2010)

22. Integrated Employment Works for Employers • Employers report operational benefits from customized employment strategies • Source: Luecking, et al. (2006)

23. Integrated Employment Works for Employers • Net benefit to employers in recruitment and retention • Source: Cimera (2009)

24. It doesn’t happen without Employers How they see it

25. Disability The presence of a disability neither deters or promotes employer hiring behavior

26. Disability in the workplace Employers value: *Employees who add value to operation *Disclosure information that is credible and linked to accommodations and performance

27. The Bottom Line • The most important factors to employers: • Meeting a perceived need: • Making money • Saving money • Operating more efficiently

28. WORK ISGOOD!

29. More information:www.transcen.orgrluecking@transcen.org