Labor and Employment

Disabilities and Employment

Web-Assisted Audioconferences

"Recovery with Results: Employment Policy and People with Mental Illness"
July 21, 2005
Persons with mental illness present a unique set of challenges for the workforce development system. This web-assisted audioconference focused on key policy issues that affect employment outcomes for people with mental illness. The presenters discussed, among other things, current federal and state policy initiatives, examples of state system change projects, and state initiatives regarding funding, performance measurement and quality assurance/outcomes management. Click here to view the arichive of this event.

"Youth with Disabilities: The State of Transition"
April 27, 2005
This audioconference gave legislators and legislative staff the opportunity to learn about and discuss problems and solutions related to education issues that affect youth with disabilities. The session provided an overview of testing as well as key federal and state legislation and their relationship to transition success. Click here to view the archive of this event.

"Customized Employment: Responding to the Needs of the Emerging Workforce"
September 21, 2004
This audioconference featured a representitive from the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy, the director of the National Center on Workforce and Disability/Adult and a local manager of a federally-funded grant site.
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